That works for about 20-30 songs or videos, but fails when you are managing thousands of music tracks from multiple albums, audiobooks, and syndicated podcasts and videoblogs.
Are you telling me it is not possible for someone to actually just implement this information gathering on the side of iPod when one drags files over that contain meta data in the file? Because from a technical perspective I don't see the problem? It's not like one can't get the device to probe any media being uploaded to it either.
What I do see, is a specific implementation to enforce people to have a iPod/iTunes 'experience' though.
Without it, there would be no music stores with major artists [major labels] who expect to get paid.
I disagree. I could ramble on about why this isn't the case, but I think just pointing you in a few directions of this, that, whatever and if you decide to keep using Itunes.
That doesn't sound like Konqueror. I'm thinking your hardware might be faulty. I've used Konqueror for years now, on a wide variety of systems (SPARC and UltraSparc boxes running Solaris and NetBSD, M68K workstations running NetBSD, x86 PCs with Linux and FreeBSD, among others), and I don't recall any crashes ever.
Then you're lucky. No other browser crashes on me.
Are you using Fedora Core by any chance?
No. I hate that distro. I am currently using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Debian, Slackware, Kubuntu, OpenSuSE, and Mandriva.
This again sounds like you're having hardware problems, or using a poor distribution like Fedora.
Again, I'm not using Fedora, and this is a problem I've seen on my other other computers too.
I also have installed Firefox 1.5.0.7
I use Firefox v2 RC, Firefox 1.5 annoys me.
Considering my system has only 512 MB of RAM
I have 256MB of RAM on one of my computers, no I'm not really feeling the effects.
I'm very sceptical about this. I know that Opera does have some problems with some banking sites, including the ones that I have found work fine with Konqueror and Firefox.
www.online.citibank.pl does not work with konqueror, works with opera and firefox though.
Other than that, I have never found a site that fails to work in Konqueror.
I find often some weird javascript/dhtml menu does not work as it should in Konqueror.
This isn't something that a browser should be doing. If such functionality is needed, you should be resorting to NFS, SMB, or other technologies for sharing and synchronizing files.
This is impossible todo via NFS, SMB etc. Because the web browsers do not reread the settings when they're already running plus this is prone to corruption. I'm more likely to lose bookmarks if I start adding bookmarks randomly to one or the other because there is no conflict resolution. This is not about synchronising files, it's about synchronizing settings WHILE the browser is running.
If you can solve this problem via NFS, SMB. Please show me how, because I have actually used that system with many problems I've described before Google browser sync came into existence.
Just try running Blackbox or even XFCE for a few days and notice the massive decrease in memory.
Strange as it maybe, GTK applications felt slower under XFCE, and in the end, the system seemed to take approximately 120-150MB more memory with the KDE applications I use.
The KDE dialogs and windows make Windows apps seem organized and lean.
I really have no idea what you're talking about here. Could you give some examples?
Consistency. This really needs to become a focus. It makes Vista seem consistent.
Again, no idea what you're talking about -- Examples?
My thought on it was very simple, a folder in the bookmarks called 'startup'. Anything you put in there was opened in tabs when firefox was started up for the first time in the day.
Honestly, I think it's better if we leave homepage as homepage, and in your specific need to just use the bookmark toolbar.
A fix for this javascript DoS attack: for(;;) alert("Please restart your browser.");
What would be nice is to have those pesky dialogs part of the window they belong to, in their own little UI. So they don't block me from changing anything in the address bar, looking at other tabs etc.
When you first turned it on after a defined period it would open all the tabs you normally check. However you would still have only one homepage, and if you clicked on the home button you would only get that page, not the whole set. I don't think it already does that, does it?
A easy workaround is modifying the Firefox shortcuts on your desktop, and just add the parameters url1|url2|url3 etc. Granted it's not easy, but then again, I'm not sure redefining what a 'homepage' is, is good either.
I would suggest if you wanted a specific button, to use the 'bookmark toolbar', if you're worried about space, like I am. You can right click customize and move the 'toolbar' thingy next to the file menu (sample (LSL wiki button being a bookmark).
the recent Voted 5 massacre with no explination given.
What do you want me to say to that? I can't say anything because I have no information on that. I also know very little about what Lindenlabs does when they ban poeple. If your 'friends' actually cared about their accounts and such, did they try contacting LL by e-mail or telephone?
And seriously, what is this bullshit about 'abusing free services'?
I read the SA forums at least once a week because I find a lot of things amusing there. But I have also seen a lot of crap people have done in the SA community.
I've been with Something Awful for a few years (late '03),
So have I, what's your point?
I've never seen that kind of shit
I have
hell I wouldn't be surprised if people get banned for insinuating doing that sort of thing.
Well, sometimes I've seen them spend time in the lepers colony, but when they've doing this crap on FYAD, no recourse for their actions suddenly.
You sure you're not confusing us with ebaumsworld or something?
No.
It seems like you, and many many other people, are surviving on little tidbits and little isolated incidents, and really that's a shame. Honestly, what the fuck do you want from us?
You're right, they aren't everyday events or every week. But they certainly are not isolated incidents, they happen 'occasionally' in these groups. I don't consider myself a 'goon' because of this non-sense. I also don't see any effort discouraging this behaviour.
People can steal Steam accounts (guess the password, keylogger etc.), which means a lot more than losing say a battle.net key. It means you've lost all your games -- I've not seen any positive outcomes at the end of such instances on Steam's forums either.
I don't suppose it helps that our sense of humor doesn't really jive with the general population
I understand the humor -- But honestly, that humour does sometimes get out of control with certain people. I've seen it on SA's forums when people tie up emergency services with complete non-sense, then laughing at the fact they managed to-do that and continue doing it.
Note that in every press release on the subject, Linden Labs has never come out and fingered W-Hat or Voted 5 specificly, people just ASSUMED that.
I used to idle a lot in the IRC channel simply because a friend of mine was there. I wouldn't call it organized but more of a spur of the moment thing -- I've really seen enough. Not all were involved, but enough were, repeatedly.
. And honestly, you would be amazed at what some people call 'greifing'. Does dressing up as a dozen agent smiths and going into a nightclub classify as 'greifing'?
Nope.
What about flying around various (mature) sims in a giant flying penis?
I recall something about a 'fly-by rule' for the mainland that might have a problem with that.
I have seen twice, for sure on IRC attempts at taking out the grid. One time I remember clearly it was revenge for being banned from a few locations when doing something considered harassment by most people (calling a group some names to get some sort of reaction) and then telling them not to take it seriously because "it's just a game".
I can't excuse that kind of behaviour, nor do I feel it's appropriate for myself to be around people who do such things.
I don't post anonymously because I have nothing to hide.
I found that if I installed games, uninstalled them (via Control Pannel) and installed more, it would really trash the registry and then everything would go awry.
had friends who used to do similar things, and they're (along with a bunch of their friends who basically did nothing except exist in the same group with them) all banned now over things that could have been handled on a parcel-by-parcel basis.
Excellent.
I have no more reason to be there.
Can't say I feel bad about it.
I suppose it's a great place to be if you feel like conforming to the whims of the hundreds of subcultures and not being able to say a bad thing about any of them, ever, without them being offended and reporting you.
I don't particularly like W-hat (They can't just accept a ban for breaking rules. It's just a game after all, according to them I don't get why they have to get so upset to retaliate over it with grid attacks), Goreans (Seem to have some prejudice against people who are in certain groups)
I have been vocal about it too -- Now, have I been reported on this? No. Did I go harass the groups with crap? No. Have I been reported before on non-issues ("He doesn't want to hear my religious babble")? Yes. Has anything bad happened (Warnings, bans)? No.
Another case of a game with tons of potential ruined by its userbase.
At least it's not 'ruined' (which in my opinion it hasn't come to that stage yet) by a minority group connected to the somethingawful community, known as W-hat.
Which by the way have been connected on numerous occasions to grid attacks. Heck, I was even on their official IRC channel a few times (zirc/#sa at the time) when some person there was gloating about beginning some grid attack and wanting help (random log from there to show everyone the mentality).
...and not having to reinstall the OS every two months (hello Windows!)
I have to wonder what exactly it is you're doing. Infact, I don't even know anyone who reinstalls Windows on a given machine that much. Worst case I can think of right now is a guy who reinstalls his computer every six months because he wants to get around some hardware-software hashing system in a game that he keeps getting banned from.
it's the attitude of linux people like you that has held linux back over the years.
It's people like him who keep Linux going, because you certainly haven't.
I've tried linux but i'm a mechanic in life not a CS major I don't have the time to learn how to use it i just want it to work.
My family don't seem to be that computer literate and they're doing fine with Linux.
If there was a windows clone I'd use it.
ReactOS, but I bet you won't anyway.
I can't even fathom those who are techinically illiterate trying to use linux.
You could buy a system that's been pre-installed on some hardware if you're having hardware issues (just like you probably bought a PC that came with Windows).
Although I do believe my next machine will be a mac.
Not being able to legally use Vista Home in a VM really hurts those using OS X running Parallels (and VMWare in the future).
Actually, you are able to legally. You just need a license to run it in that VM, also you cannot share that license to dual boot the system into Windows vista.
This seems REALLY silly to me as Microsoft can easily make lotsa $$$ off these VM-based license sales.
Seems to me they are going to now. Now that Macs are 'cheaper', the Mac users have more to spend on software licensing.
This is the first time in my life I've seen Microsoft limit it's sales of Windows products by it's own licensing.
They didn't decrease it, they increased the amount of spending required to 'stay legal'.
And it isn't just Dells. My PC at home (Shuttle) doesn't boot USB either.
Heh.. I never even heard of that brand before.
Maybe, but the point is that with Macs you don't have to set anything up.
True. In the end it makes little difference to me whether it's supported out of the box or not -- I'm quite confident in my own abilities to setup and troubleshoot such systems. I'm actually quite surprised still hearing about your problems with booting off USB on PCs -- I have *never* had this problem, even during my travels.
It Just Works that way by design.
I honestly can't say I find Mac design reliable. I find it irritating enough when I can hear G3, G4, G5's whistling, nevermind the Macbook Pro which is even louder -- but I've had bad experience with hardware, I've never seen so many computers from a specific brand suffer motherboard (or as Apple-care called it on the phone, 'logicboard') failures.
As for the OS... Well, that's another story, Java implementations being extended and breaking existing applications, having to edit XML configuration files instead of using GUIs (I mention this, because I find it ironic this is what Mac users tend to complain about the problem is with Linux -- even though Linux distributions tend to have more available to you in TUIs and GUIs).. Secret commands for things like showing hidden files on the system when it should be just a click away, (like view -> show hidden files under Konqueror), rebooting to install simple things like codecs under QuickTime etc.
The services provided by Apple-care weren't very reliable either. I have had to wait (not always though) absurdly long times to get repaired hardware back, only to discover that they did not fix it (they do claim found nothing wrong or claim fixed the issue). Having to send hardware back and forth for months to get it actually repaired really doesn't leave me with a good impression.
I really can't say I've been taken in by the Mac -- which is why I can't see myself recommending it to anyone at the moment.
Somehow I doubt the BullDog thing would work much better.
It's a simple x-server.
I imagine it requires some local software to take control over the video/keyboard or whatever it does.
I have taken a copy of the x-server from the site, and have used it as a quick-and-dirty way to get a x-server under windows when need be. It runs on non-administrator accounts, vmware-player on the other hand, does require that you install it first with administrator privileges before you can use it.
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Because from a technical perspective I don't see the problem?
It's not like one can't get the device to probe any media being uploaded to it either.
What I do see, is a specific implementation to enforce people to have a iPod/iTunes 'experience' though.
From the company that made MP3 players which couldn't play MP3s...
If you can solve this problem via NFS, SMB. Please show me how, because I have actually used that system with many problems I've described before Google browser sync came into existence.
Sorry, Kilo should be Kerry.
I would suggest if you wanted a specific button, to use the 'bookmark toolbar', if you're worried about space, like I am. You can right click customize and move the 'toolbar' thingy next to the file menu (sample (LSL wiki button being a bookmark).
I found these features in RC v2 (not showing all you requested are shown because I am lazy).
People can steal Steam accounts (guess the password, keylogger etc.), which means a lot more than losing say a battle.net key. It means you've lost all your games -- I've not seen any positive outcomes at the end of such instances on Steam's forums either.
I have seen twice, for sure on IRC attempts at taking out the grid. One time I remember clearly it was revenge for being banned from a few locations when doing something considered harassment by most people (calling a group some names to get some sort of reaction) and then telling them not to take it seriously because "it's just a game".
I can't excuse that kind of behaviour, nor do I feel it's appropriate for myself to be around people who do such things.Neither do I.
Goreans (Seem to have some prejudice against people who are in certain groups)
I have been vocal about it too -- Now, have I been reported on this? No.
Did I go harass the groups with crap? No.
Have I been reported before on non-issues ("He doesn't want to hear my religious babble")? Yes.
Has anything bad happened (Warnings, bans)? No.At least it's not 'ruined' (which in my opinion it hasn't come to that stage yet) by a minority group connected to the somethingawful community, known as W-hat.
Which by the way have been connected on numerous occasions to grid attacks. Heck, I was even on their official IRC channel a few times (zirc/#sa at the time) when some person there was gloating about beginning some grid attack and wanting help (random log from there to show everyone the mentality).
As for the OS... Well, that's another story, Java implementations being extended and breaking existing applications, having to edit XML configuration files instead of using GUIs (I mention this, because I find it ironic this is what Mac users tend to complain about the problem is with Linux -- even though Linux distributions tend to have more available to you in TUIs and GUIs).. Secret commands for things like showing hidden files on the system when it should be just a click away, (like view -> show hidden files under Konqueror), rebooting to install simple things like codecs under QuickTime etc.
The services provided by Apple-care weren't very reliable either. I have had to wait (not always though) absurdly long times to get repaired hardware back, only to discover that they did not fix it (they do claim found nothing wrong or claim fixed the issue). Having to send hardware back and forth for months to get it actually repaired really doesn't leave me with a good impression.
I really can't say I've been taken in by the Mac -- which is why I can't see myself recommending it to anyone at the moment.
It's a simple x-server.I have taken a copy of the x-server from the site, and have used it as a quick-and-dirty way to get a x-server under windows when need be. It runs on non-administrator accounts, vmware-player on the other hand, does require that you install it first with administrator privileges before you can use it.