And as far as Be was concerned, if there was such a selection, why weren't all Linux apps available for download to Be on BeBits? Seems to me they could have kept that awesome (yet useless) OS alive.
Face it, Be and OS2 are dead. There's probably a handful of banks that still run OS2, and that's about it. It's dead. get over it and move on with your life.
Bollocks! Downloading MP3's, itunes, uploading tunes to ipod, photo editing, video editing, etc etc.
You cannot make a vanilla system that'll replace the OS. I've seen this post a dozen times, probaly from you a few of those. It's a stupid idea. That'll never happen.
Ever heard of citrix? You can host out apps using a citrix farm if you like. So this can be done today, with nothing but a standard web browser, yet it isn't widely adopted.
OS2 and Be never crashed because they were as useless as tits on a bull. I mean, Be was/is(?) pretty, and stable, but you can't do a hell of a lot with it. OS2 wasn't even all that pretty...
Hm, I am writing this message on a Toshiba laptop where the only way I can use it with the supplied drivers is to turn off hardware acceleration. It has an ATi Radeon Mobility M6, and the Toshiba drivers are ass... I can't even watch a movie without being thrown in the XP video driver crash screen - the 8bit 640x480 screen that tells you to save your work and reboot.
I blame the video drivers, and I'm sure it's more ATi than Toshiba on these drivers.
Used to sell their stuff... Overpriced, lowest commission for sales people. When I sold electronics, the Sony stuff was dreaded by salespeople because it was the least commission.
Try using www.mp3shield.com - works well and you at least you don't have to listen to the crap to get what you like - it'll tell you you've downloaded crap. I swear by it.
You're wrong on so many levels and are modded up as insightful?
1) It's AAC you're thinking of.
2) Many Car stereos and DVD players play wma. my Kenwood KDC MP8017 from two years ago plays wma.
The only thing you have right is that ogg is ignored.
I thought the same thing... If I have a page open in a new tab, and a popup comes over my existing page...with no action from me on the current page... I'd be smart enough to figure out that it's from the page I requested, not the page I'm reading.
IMHO, this Firefox "security hole" is a pretty stupid one, and really, how harmful can it be anyway?
I like the way Microsoft handles this... Instead of using a popup, try using a layer with an iframe or whatever and position it next to the question mark - it's less invasive and should work in most current browsers - well at least Firefox...
apt-get install seems to work quite well on Redhat at least. Many good repositories for apt-rpm.
However/usr/ports makes me tingle... When it works... There's been a few bugs in there too...
It's a bit frustrating when you got install Gallery for example, and you run Apache2 with php5 and Gallery goes to install php4 and apache1.3... that's a bit frustrating, but can deal with that...
Finally, an IT person that gets it. I want to work in your office, rather than the kinda place I work in. I hate IT people like Dancin' Santa, and there's a helluva lot of them.
Why not use arconis true image? Press F11 at startup and you can restore the image off a protected partition? Most peecees come with > 40GB of storage space, what's a few gigs for a restore image?
The difference is when you download and run software, or when you download and resell software.
Downloading GPL'd code and running it is encouraged. Downloading it and selling it as your own is breaking copyright.
So IMO, downloading music, as the Supreme Court of Canada puts it is no different than listening to music on the radio. Downloading a song, burning the cd, and profiting on it a copyright infringement.
IMO that's where the RIAA needs to be serious. Those who download a song, play it, and share it with someone else, are not much different than those who hand their friend a set of headphones to hear a song.
What if you rent a movie and show it at home to 20 friends? 19 people haven't paid for the movie. You're ripping of the MPAA. So what if you rip a divx movie of that dvd and hand it to them? What is the difference? The Supreme Court of Canada has a hard time seeing the difference.
Maybe they just aren't whores to industry like the US Supreme Court Justices are.
As far as dual monitors, xinerama works okay, but it's still buggy and has "features" that kinda suck sometimes is all... I've seen x crash more than once using a dual monitor config, and it doesn't seem to work quite right... It has a way to go still.
I'm not a windows fanboy at all. I really have given Linux desktop many chances to impress me. I've been trying since Redhat 5 to use it as my desktop. So I'm not a n00b. I want it to be simple enough for me to recommend to family members. That's all.
No offence to Linux desktop fanboys, that is one of the many reasons Linux sucks on the desktop. I love dual monitor setups,but it doesn't quite work right on Linux desktop, and try having three monitors for a truly difficult experience. That problem, along with the difficulty of Linux wireless support has kept me from making the move. Still love it on the server though, but it has a ways to go on the desktop unfortunately.
policitical suicide. Seems to me that in order to change things, you gotta play the game for a while before you can bring in your vision. If Sen. Kerry voted against war in Iraq, which was a pretty popular notion in congress, it would have been political suicide, and now it would be Bush vs. Edwards. Unfortunately you gotta play the game first and not try to rock the boat until you have the power to do so.
This player was around when in-dash mp3 was first becoming mainstream, and was linux based, and hard drive based, but had a pretty heafty price tag. I opted for the mp3 cd player because it was cheaper, and because I go 4x4ing, I want something that'll survive the shock. When they make a player that's got better shock resistance, then I'll be impressed.
I wonder how people ever dealt with death before they invented photography and video..... Must have been really bad back then, I mean really... Just memories?
It has nothing to do with dealing with death; it's just nice to be able to show your kids their grandparents in a video. My grandmother, for example is 92. She might not be around when my kids are born. I'd like my kids to see her. Anything wrong with that?
As far as huge wedding is concerned, ours is far from extravagent. Her family is 80 people, my family is 40 people. We have another 30-40 friends we want to invite. Hardly what I'd call huge. We don't pay for the hall; it's included with the caterer. Booze is at cost, we don't pay bar prices. Food is reasonable (as far as caterers are concerned). Dress is going to cost the price of the materials. We aren't renting limos; we are renting mini coopers. The boquet is of Gerber Daisies instead of Cally Lillies (cheap vs expensive). Overall it's not outrageous. Still, we want to give people a good meal and good food for sharing in our special day. Where our families are from, gifts are $100 or so per person + shower gifts. It's just a cultural thing. East Indians invite 900 people to their wedding and they each give $20, so they have large, cheap and cheesy weddings. Greeks and Italians have nicer weddings, and the gifts match. Nothing wrong with that.
That said, a trip around the world does sound nice. But no way in hell am I giving money to a charity instead of having a nice wedding. Have you any idea how much money the united way squanders?
Sorry, but I think you're the one with the issue. I'll I've suggested is if you want to help, click a couple ads. Doesn't hurt anyone. To call my cause asinine demostrates a lack of maturity on your part, not an asinie cause on mine. A click is all I'm pan-handling for.
As for not watching your video, I feel sad for you. I'm not suggesting you should watch it every day, but there's value in having it. When you're old, you'll get a chance to see your old friends and family who will be dead by the time you're watching it. That luxury is priceless. Seeing dead uncle Charlie, who died of cancer, laughing, dancing, drinking and enjoying himself is more valuable than anything.
What if my parents die before I have kids? It happened to my mom. I've only seen one photograph of my grandfather - he died of cancer in the 60's. It would have been invaluable to me to get to see him laughing and drinking and ejoying himself.
You don't seem to value many things in life. Your marriage, your friends, or your relatives, and that's fine, it's your choice, but my choice is to have something to remember people by. Pictures and video are priceless, because they trigger memories that make you feel good.
Simple. She doesn't require it. I want to make our wedding the best for her bcuz she deserves it. We're not going to extreme lengths, but we both have large families - our family count is 160 people alone, nevermind friends.
Our parents are paying for the banquet and the booze. Her dress and brides maids are being hand made by her mom. (who's sewn about 30 wedding dresses alread really well). We're not renting Limos - we're renting Mini Coopers.
Flowers, decorations, DJ, and tuxes are all that's left for us to pay for. It's not that bad.
Really though, every penny we spend on our wedding is coming out of our house budget.
I mean, we'll probably come out likely with $15k from our guests, and probably another $20k from our parents, and we will have $40k saved by the time the wedding rolls around, but still, every penny counts. So far the google ads have gotten us $330US... That's pretty cool, and it'll pay for some nicer decorations. That's all. I think she deserves it.
it may be just a day, but for us it means a little more than just one more day.
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Thanks a bunch dude! Well I have something to play with this weekend lol...
But OS2 couldn't run .
Uh, IIRC, Win 3.x apps ran like shit on OS2.
And as far as Be was concerned, if there was such a selection, why weren't all Linux apps available for download to Be on BeBits? Seems to me they could have kept that awesome (yet useless) OS alive.
Face it, Be and OS2 are dead. There's probably a handful of banks that still run OS2, and that's about it. It's dead. get over it and move on with your life.
Bollocks! Downloading MP3's, itunes, uploading tunes to ipod, photo editing, video editing, etc etc.
You cannot make a vanilla system that'll replace the OS. I've seen this post a dozen times, probaly from you a few of those. It's a stupid idea. That'll never happen.
Ever heard of citrix? You can host out apps using a citrix farm if you like. So this can be done today, with nothing but a standard web browser, yet it isn't widely adopted.
OS2 and Be never crashed because they were as useless as tits on a bull. I mean, Be was/is(?) pretty, and stable, but you can't do a hell of a lot with it. OS2 wasn't even all that pretty...
Hm, I am writing this message on a Toshiba laptop where the only way I can use it with the supplied drivers is to turn off hardware acceleration. It has an ATi Radeon Mobility M6, and the Toshiba drivers are ass... I can't even watch a movie without being thrown in the XP video driver crash screen - the 8bit 640x480 screen that tells you to save your work and reboot.
I blame the video drivers, and I'm sure it's more ATi than Toshiba on these drivers.
Used to sell their stuff... Overpriced, lowest commission for sales people. When I sold electronics, the Sony stuff was dreaded by salespeople because it was the least commission.
And IIRC the IBM Home Computing Stores were before all of them... And they sucked ass too...
Try using www.mp3shield.com - works well and you at least you don't have to listen to the crap to get what you like - it'll tell you you've downloaded crap. I swear by it.
You're wrong on so many levels and are modded up as insightful? 1) It's AAC you're thinking of. 2) Many Car stereos and DVD players play wma. my Kenwood KDC MP8017 from two years ago plays wma. The only thing you have right is that ogg is ignored.
I thought the same thing... If I have a page open in a new tab, and a popup comes over my existing page ...with no action from me on the current page... I'd be smart enough to figure out that it's from the page I requested, not the page I'm reading.
IMHO, this Firefox "security hole" is a pretty stupid one, and really, how harmful can it be anyway?
I like the way Microsoft handles this... Instead of using a popup, try using a layer with an iframe or whatever and position it next to the question mark - it's less invasive and should work in most current browsers - well at least Firefox...
apt-get install seems to work quite well on Redhat at least. Many good repositories for apt-rpm.
/usr/ports makes me tingle... When it works... There's been a few bugs in there too...
However
It's a bit frustrating when you got install Gallery for example, and you run Apache2 with php5 and Gallery goes to install php4 and apache1.3... that's a bit frustrating, but can deal with that...
Hahaha thanks man... It's totally helped... $320US so far will buy us some nicer decorations... Very cool...
There's a redirect after the really lame-ass flash animation I did (deliberately for that stupid cheesy look).
Redirect points to http://www.costasandsandra.com/index2.php
Finally, an IT person that gets it. I want to work in your office, rather than the kinda place I work in. I hate IT people like Dancin' Santa, and there's a helluva lot of them.
Why not use arconis true image? Press F11 at startup and you can restore the image off a protected partition? Most peecees come with > 40GB of storage space, what's a few gigs for a restore image?
Well I'll respond to this AC...
The difference is when you download and run software, or when you download and resell software.
Downloading GPL'd code and running it is encouraged. Downloading it and selling it as your own is breaking copyright.
So IMO, downloading music, as the Supreme Court of Canada puts it is no different than listening to music on the radio. Downloading a song, burning the cd, and profiting on it a copyright infringement.
IMO that's where the RIAA needs to be serious. Those who download a song, play it, and share it with someone else, are not much different than those who hand their friend a set of headphones to hear a song.
What if you rent a movie and show it at home to 20 friends? 19 people haven't paid for the movie. You're ripping of the MPAA. So what if you rip a divx movie of that dvd and hand it to them? What is the difference? The Supreme Court of Canada has a hard time seeing the difference.
Maybe they just aren't whores to industry like the US Supreme Court Justices are.
As far as dual monitors, xinerama works okay, but it's still buggy and has "features" that kinda suck sometimes is all... I've seen x crash more than once using a dual monitor config, and it doesn't seem to work quite right... It has a way to go still.
I'm not a windows fanboy at all. I really have given Linux desktop many chances to impress me. I've been trying since Redhat 5 to use it as my desktop. So I'm not a n00b. I want it to be simple enough for me to recommend to family members. That's all.
No offence to Linux desktop fanboys, that is one of the many reasons Linux sucks on the desktop. I love dual monitor setups,but it doesn't quite work right on Linux desktop, and try having three monitors for a truly difficult experience. That problem, along with the difficulty of Linux wireless support has kept me from making the move. Still love it on the server though, but it has a ways to go on the desktop unfortunately.
A tv attached to your computer also works well for this sort of thing.
Sure if you don't have to read any text on your screen.
policitical suicide. Seems to me that in order to change things, you gotta play the game for a while before you can bring in your vision. If Sen. Kerry voted against war in Iraq, which was a pretty popular notion in congress, it would have been political suicide, and now it would be Bush vs. Edwards. Unfortunately you gotta play the game first and not try to rock the boat until you have the power to do so.
This player was around when in-dash mp3 was first becoming mainstream, and was linux based, and hard drive based, but had a pretty heafty price tag. I opted for the mp3 cd player because it was cheaper, and because I go 4x4ing, I want something that'll survive the shock. When they make a player that's got better shock resistance, then I'll be impressed.
I wonder how people ever dealt with death before they invented photography and video..... Must have been really bad back then, I mean really... Just memories?
It has nothing to do with dealing with death; it's just nice to be able to show your kids their grandparents in a video. My grandmother, for example is 92. She might not be around when my kids are born. I'd like my kids to see her. Anything wrong with that?
As far as huge wedding is concerned, ours is far from extravagent. Her family is 80 people, my family is 40 people. We have another 30-40 friends we want to invite. Hardly what I'd call huge. We don't pay for the hall; it's included with the caterer. Booze is at cost, we don't pay bar prices. Food is reasonable (as far as caterers are concerned). Dress is going to cost the price of the materials. We aren't renting limos; we are renting mini coopers. The boquet is of Gerber Daisies instead of Cally Lillies (cheap vs expensive). Overall it's not outrageous. Still, we want to give people a good meal and good food for sharing in our special day. Where our families are from, gifts are $100 or so per person + shower gifts. It's just a cultural thing. East Indians invite 900 people to their wedding and they each give $20, so they have large, cheap and cheesy weddings. Greeks and Italians have nicer weddings, and the gifts match. Nothing wrong with that.
That said, a trip around the world does sound nice. But no way in hell am I giving money to a charity instead of having a nice wedding. Have you any idea how much money the united way squanders?
Good. Attack me ad-hominem now. That adds credibility to you.
Sorry, but I think you're the one with the issue. I'll I've suggested is if you want to help, click a couple ads. Doesn't hurt anyone. To call my cause asinine demostrates a lack of maturity on your part, not an asinie cause on mine. A click is all I'm pan-handling for.
As for not watching your video, I feel sad for you. I'm not suggesting you should watch it every day, but there's value in having it. When you're old, you'll get a chance to see your old friends and family who will be dead by the time you're watching it. That luxury is priceless. Seeing dead uncle Charlie, who died of cancer, laughing, dancing, drinking and enjoying himself is more valuable than anything.
What if my parents die before I have kids? It happened to my mom. I've only seen one photograph of my grandfather - he died of cancer in the 60's. It would have been invaluable to me to get to see him laughing and drinking and ejoying himself.
You don't seem to value many things in life. Your marriage, your friends, or your relatives, and that's fine, it's your choice, but my choice is to have something to remember people by. Pictures and video are priceless, because they trigger memories that make you feel good.
Simple. She doesn't require it. I want to make our wedding the best for her bcuz she deserves it. We're not going to extreme lengths, but we both have large families - our family count is 160 people alone, nevermind friends.
Our parents are paying for the banquet and the booze. Her dress and brides maids are being hand made by her mom. (who's sewn about 30 wedding dresses alread really well). We're not renting Limos - we're renting Mini Coopers.
Flowers, decorations, DJ, and tuxes are all that's left for us to pay for. It's not that bad.
Really though, every penny we spend on our wedding is coming out of our house budget.
I mean, we'll probably come out likely with $15k from our guests, and probably another $20k from our parents, and we will have $40k saved by the time the wedding rolls around, but still, every penny counts. So far the google ads have gotten us $330US... That's pretty cool, and it'll pay for some nicer decorations. That's all. I think she deserves it.
it may be just a day, but for us it means a little more than just one more day.