Not necesarily true, CDs created with DirectCD have the UDF drivers on them in a small iso9660 session, or you can just download them - obviously not as convienient as a floppy, but a heap more convienient than 700MB worth of floppies;)
And if the user has a DVD drive, then they probably already have UDF reading capabilities anyway.
I'm not saying that CDRW is the answer to everyone's prayers, just that with a bit more work, it could be.
Actually, Win2K has UDF reading capabilities built in. And when you format a UDF CDRW with DirectCD, it puts a small ISO9660 session on it with the UDF reader software, so the first time you pop the disc in a machine with no UDF, it can install the driver. You can also download the UDF reader free of charge from Roxio.
I've personally never had a problem with speed when it comes to mounting or unmounting, in eather Windows or Linux...but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen, of course...
You certainly have a point with number 3., but it's just a function of any new technology...you have the same issue with the 120MB Super disks too...even worse since older computers would need a drive to even read them.
>I believe it was Yamaha or Panasonic that is working on software that treats CD-RW like a floppy, letting you read, write, erase similarly
That software has existed for years....There's DirectCD by Roxio (it comes with Easy CD Creator), and InstandWrite that's part of the InstantCD/DVD package.
There's also the packet writing driver for Linux that works great too.
All three of these use packet writing to write to a CDRW with a UDF filesystem.
I don;t know why these packages don't have more visibility, because they're the missing link that answers all the arguments as to why CDRW can't replace floppy. Since they make the CDs look like removeable hard drives, you can even save directly to CDRW from any application.
It should keep the connection open, and only resend the login details if the server disconnects.
I'm convinced that Microsoft deliberately makes Outlook so bad at IMAP to force people to use Exchange instead....
sorry, too early in the morning, not enough coffee, and suffering flashbacks from battling with Outlook and IMAP (Netscape messenger does it so much better, but everyone insists they 'need' Outlook).
That's pretty consistent with my experiences too....
The few people that were likely to be the ones doing any 'locker stuffing', were those in the second top classes, IE. those who were smart enough, but had too much of a bad attitude to really do well.
An example, was one guy who was actually in our class for the beginning of the year, and then actually requested to be placed in the one below, because he 'didn't want to be with all the nerds'.
He was probably the only one in the school that showed any sort of resentment towards those of higher academic achievement, and he was one who probably had a good deal more potential than a lot in our class, but preferred to be an arsehole instead.
Also interesting to note was that those in the First XV (The school's main Rugby Union team), tended to come from a broad crossection of the school that had no real tie to intelligence or academic achievement.
How do you know that the hang is reproduceable on any other machine?
Just because one person has a problem...doesn't mean everyone does.
Hangs are often the hardest bugs to track down, since they're often the result of race conditions that result in deadlocks, which by definition makes them very hard to reproduce.
I'm sure that if you could reliably reproduce the hang, and found the HTML responsible for it, and informed them, they'd consider modifiying their page. But I would hardly say they're obligated to work around every obscure bug in every outdated browser...
We had a client a few years ago (about 1998), that we needed to set up data transfer for. IBMGSA were running their IT systems, and they decided that FTAM (over OSI) was the way to go, citing FTP's supposed lack of reliability, and lack of features such as resume...
They were absolutely serious when they said that too.....
We eventually managed to get the whole setup working (FTAM, OSI, X.25 over an ISDN link)...but it was the most unreliable, cryptic, complicated system I've ever had to deal with... A couple of years later, the client ditched IBMGSA, and the company that took over their systems took one look at the FTAM / OSI mess, and threw it out and replaced it with FTP over TCP/IP, and we've never had another problem.
Besides, you'll notice there seems to be an awful lot of on topic, interesting comments to this article, so it seems like it might be pretty relevant to me.
> Wow. You could get FOUR P970 from the transistor count of ONE Itanium 2
Wow, you just compared a high end server processor with a desktop processor.
POWER4+ is IBM's competitor to Itanium 2. The article compares the PPC970 with an upcoming _mobile_ processor from Intel.
Also, I think you'll find that most of the difference in transistor count, is cache...
From the looking forward chard in the article, you see that the PPC970 will probably have a total of less than 600k of cache, whereas the Maddison and Deefield Itanium 2s will probably have around 6.25MB and 3.25MB of cache respectively...
Then notice how Deefield with 3MB less cache than Maddison, also has 180 million less transistors...
hmmm..but at the same time, that chart shows the POWER4+ with 128Mb of L3 cache...and only 184 million transistors. I'm not sure if that's a mistake, or if the POWER4+'s L3 cache will be off die...
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Yes, I have... I don't think programmers haven't been writing stories for years....probably since they stopped doing the art too...
>...is frantically setting up his equipment before a gig in a fit > of nervousness and adrenaline, the last thing he needs to >worry about is a lot of fancy technology.
hmmm...so pedals, fm transmitters, effects units, etc aren't a lot of fancy technology?
I really don't think technology bothers most modern guitarists that much....and I really don't think it'll make any difference to them on a practical level whether or not the signal is digital or analogue. The thing that will really matter, is what do these guitars sound like?
the problem is not DLLs specifically, static libraries cause problems too....
when the header file says off_t, and the library thinks off_t is 32 bits and the program linking to the library thinks it's 64 bits, then you have a problem.
The same sort of problem would presumably occur when a DOS library was compiled in large mode, but the program linking to it used small, or vice versa....
You can protest all you like, but don't expect it to change anything, and don't be suprised when the FBI comes knocking on your door and confiscates all your hardware...
Saying it's a protest doesn't change the fact that it's illegal.
The Australasian Performing Right Association Limited (APRA) The first copyright collecting society set up in Australia, APRA represents 30,000 music writer and publisher members. As part of a world-wide network of similar organisations, APRA also provides local representation for more than 1,000,000 international composers. By arrangement, APRA also administers the rights of AMCOS.
It's interesting actually, that it's APRA not ARIA that's behind this...because APRA, the Australian Performing Rights Association actually represents the artists, not the record companies...Any musician can register themselves with APRA, and get a cut of the royalties payed by venues for playing their music (providing, of course that your music is actually played some where). So there's a chance this levy may actually go to some artists, and not just into a record company's pockets.
ARIA, the Australian Recording Industry Association would be the Australian equivalent of the RIAA, and they're not mentioned anywhere in the article.
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Not necesarily true, CDs created with DirectCD have the UDF drivers on them in a small iso9660 session, or you can just download them - obviously not as convienient as a floppy, but a heap more convienient than 700MB worth of floppies ;)
And if the user has a DVD drive, then they probably already have UDF reading capabilities anyway.
I'm not saying that CDRW is the answer to everyone's prayers, just that with a bit more work, it could be.
Actually, Win2K has UDF reading capabilities built in.
And when you format a UDF CDRW with DirectCD, it puts a small ISO9660 session on it with the UDF reader software, so the first time you pop the disc in a machine with no UDF, it can install the driver.
You can also download the UDF reader free of charge from Roxio.
I've personally never had a problem with speed when it comes to mounting or unmounting, in eather Windows or Linux...but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen, of course...
You certainly have a point with number 3., but it's just a function of any new technology...you have the same issue with the 120MB Super disks too...even worse since older computers would need a drive to even read them.
>I believe it was Yamaha or Panasonic that is working on software that treats CD-RW like a floppy, letting you read, write, erase similarly
That software has existed for years....There's DirectCD by Roxio (it comes with Easy CD Creator), and InstandWrite that's part of the InstantCD/DVD package.
There's also the packet writing driver for Linux that works great too.
All three of these use packet writing to write to a CDRW with a UDF filesystem.
I don;t know why these packages don't have more visibility, because they're the missing link that answers all the arguments as to why CDRW can't replace floppy.
Since they make the CDs look like removeable hard drives, you can even save directly to CDRW from any application.
Outlook is completely fucked then....
It should keep the connection open, and only resend the login details if the server disconnects.
I'm convinced that Microsoft deliberately makes Outlook so bad at IMAP to force people to use Exchange instead....
sorry, too early in the morning, not enough coffee, and suffering flashbacks from battling with Outlook and IMAP (Netscape messenger does it so much better, but everyone insists they 'need' Outlook).
Because IBM forgot to secure an exclusive license to MS-DOS.
That's pretty consistent with my experiences too....
The few people that were likely to be the ones doing any 'locker stuffing', were those in the second top classes, IE. those who were smart enough, but had too much of a bad attitude to really do well.
An example, was one guy who was actually in our class for the beginning of the year, and then actually requested to be placed in the one below, because he 'didn't want to be with all the nerds'.
He was probably the only one in the school that showed any sort of resentment towards those of higher academic achievement, and he was one who probably had a good deal more potential than a lot in our class, but preferred to be an arsehole instead.
Also interesting to note was that those in the First XV (The school's main Rugby Union team), tended to come from a broad crossection of the school that had no real tie to intelligence or academic achievement.
> TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW
That's the imortant bit...
Basically if the law says they're liable, the whole rest of the paragraph is meaningless, but it's there to intimidate you into not suing
How do you know that the hang is reproduceable on any other machine?
Just because one person has a problem...doesn't mean everyone does.
Hangs are often the hardest bugs to track down, since they're often the result of race conditions that result in deadlocks, which by definition makes them very hard to reproduce.
I'm sure that if you could reliably reproduce the hang, and found the HTML responsible for it, and informed them, they'd consider modifiying their page.
But I would hardly say they're obligated to work around every obscure bug in every outdated browser...
We had a client a few years ago (about 1998), that we needed to set up data transfer for.
IBMGSA were running their IT systems, and they decided that FTAM (over OSI) was the way to go, citing FTP's supposed lack of reliability, and lack of features such as resume...
They were absolutely serious when they said that too.....
We eventually managed to get the whole setup working (FTAM, OSI, X.25 over an ISDN link)...but it was the most unreliable, cryptic, complicated system I've ever had to deal with...
A couple of years later, the client ditched IBMGSA, and the company that took over their systems took one look at the FTAM / OSI mess, and threw it out and replaced it with FTP over TCP/IP, and we've never had another problem.
I was going to reply to him, but I think you just said all that needed to be said.
You missed his point....and reinforced it all at once ;)
He was saying that it's so easy that there is _no_ configuration step, it's plug in, and use...
It's averaged, so it's not 1GB every day, it's 30GB per month...
So unless you're trying a different distribution a day, you'd be fine...
I'm not sure I've ever heard the XBox described as 'sleek' before........
Yes and we had two articles on it already.
Shit happens, get over it.
Besides, you'll notice there seems to be an awful lot of on topic, interesting comments to this article, so it seems like it might be pretty relevant to me.
> Wow. You could get FOUR P970 from the transistor count of ONE Itanium 2
Wow, you just compared a high end server processor with a desktop processor.
POWER4+ is IBM's competitor to Itanium 2. The article compares the PPC970 with an upcoming _mobile_ processor from Intel.
Also, I think you'll find that most of the difference in transistor count, is cache...
From the looking forward chard in the article, you see that the PPC970 will probably have a total of less than 600k of cache, whereas the Maddison and Deefield Itanium 2s will probably have around 6.25MB and 3.25MB of cache respectively...
Then notice how Deefield with 3MB less cache than Maddison, also has 180 million less transistors...
hmmm..but at the same time, that chart shows the POWER4+ with 128Mb of L3 cache...and only 184 million transistors. I'm not sure if that's a mistake, or if the POWER4+'s L3 cache will be off die...
Yes, I have...
I don't think programmers haven't been writing stories for years....probably since they stopped doing the art too...
what on earth makes you think you'll have to worry about any of that?
just because they use ethernet as the link level protocol doesn't mean that suddenly there's a hard drive and a windows PC in every device...
Yes, but if the programmer doesn't know how the library was compiled, then it's the distributor of the library's fault.
Which is why this article is putting the emphasis on getting the distros to ensure that they provide a consistent platform.
> ...is frantically setting up his equipment before a gig in a fit
> of nervousness and adrenaline, the last thing he needs to
>worry about is a lot of fancy technology.
hmmm...so pedals, fm transmitters, effects units, etc aren't a lot of fancy technology?
I really don't think technology bothers most modern guitarists that much....and I really don't think it'll make any difference to them on a practical level whether or not the signal is digital or analogue.
The thing that will really matter, is what do these guitars sound like?
the problem is not DLLs specifically, static libraries cause problems too....
when the header file says off_t, and the library thinks off_t is 32 bits and the program linking to the library thinks it's 64 bits, then you have a problem.
The same sort of problem would presumably occur when a DOS library was compiled in large mode, but the program linking to it used small, or vice versa....
You can protest all you like, but don't expect it to change anything, and don't be suprised when the FBI comes knocking on your door and confiscates all your hardware...
Saying it's a protest doesn't change the fact that it's illegal.
Always free, not always zero cost.
As long as you can get the source for no more than the cost of distribution, they can charge anything they like for the binaries....
How do you change the configuration so that they DO look like crap?
You do know not to try to use arbitary font sizes for bitmap fonts dont you?
I've been using linux, with X since 97, and with the exception of netscape 4.x have not had any issues with font readability.
I think alot of this is like the audiophiles that claim that a better quality optical cable actually makes an audiable difference.....
From APRA's website:
The Australasian Performing Right Association Limited (APRA) The first copyright collecting society set up in Australia, APRA represents 30,000 music writer and publisher members. As part of a world-wide network of similar organisations, APRA also provides local representation for more than 1,000,000 international composers. By arrangement, APRA also administers the rights of AMCOS.
You should join, then maybe you'll get a cut.
Presumably you mean APRA, or possibly ARIA.
It's interesting actually, that it's APRA not ARIA that's behind this...because APRA, the Australian Performing Rights Association actually represents the artists, not the record companies...Any musician can register themselves with APRA, and get a cut of the royalties payed by venues for playing their music (providing, of course that your music is actually played some where). So there's a chance this levy may actually go to some artists, and not just into a record company's pockets.
ARIA, the Australian Recording Industry Association would be the Australian equivalent of the RIAA, and they're not mentioned anywhere in the article.