Their credit card page isn't even under SSL. Ctrl-F4. No thanks!
"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
But once again, iTunes even fails for me, because I need a better way of looking through my artists and songs.
Have you tried using smart playlists in iTunes? It's probably the most flexable way to sort through the metadata in your music library I've seen yet. Basically, you can create filters that describe how a playlist is filled. Once the criteria is set, the list is dynamically updated as you add music to your library. For instance, you could have something like:
Genere 'contains' Jazz Genere 'does not contain' Live My Rating 'is greater than' **** BPM 'is greater than' 90 Artist 'starts with' Englebert Artist 'ends with' Slapdeback
By any reasonable definition of the word "normal," the way 99% of the world lives is normal and what 1% of the world does that is different is abnormal. The rest of the world isn't shit poor, Americans are shit rich.
You're right that Americans are abnormal, when you compare our lifestyle to 99% of the rest of the world. But that's the problem! C'mon, you can't really think that most of the world isn't poor? 99% of the world doesn't have enough food to eat, they live in mud and clay houses (partially responsible for the 30,000+ deaths in the Iranian earthquake recently) and many of their populations are being erradicated by AIDS and other preventable diseases. If not living in those conditions is wrong, then I don't wanna be right!:)
American history has been shaped by vast open spaces, abundant resources and nearly constant progress. The past couple centuries have been HIGHLY unusual compared to the rest of history, and should not be expected to last forever.
Besides the progess that you're describing, the other thing that was established during the past 100 or so years here is a true middle class. That's really what the rest of the world is missing. For every civilization with extreme poverty, you can be sure that there's a small few who are living in extreme abundance. We still have remnants of that here in the US, but our middle class is what makes us strong. It's also what is being hurt the most with all of this outsourcing.
If your income is $47,500 USD or higher, you are in the top 1% of the world's wage earners.
So what? While that is truly a sad fact, it goes to show that most of the world is shit poor, not that Americans/Europeans are overly compensated. Is the only other option to have all American workers earn $5/day? I'm afraid that our worlds C[EF]O's aren't likely to stop this trend of outsourcing until America and Europe are turned in to 3rd world countries also! Unfortunatly, then it will be too late.
If you're going to post release notices on/. there either needs to be compelling new features (which should appear in the/. article) or it needs to be the reslease of Duke Nukem Forever.
DukeNukem Forever is hardly a point release... It's a sign of The Apocalypse!
That's weird, it's worked flawlessly for me. I do get a disclaimer that I have to agree with before it will continue with the conversion (and DRM removal). Here's what it says:
Source files have a DRM protected content.
You can transcode audio Content, that was decomposed from WMF Content, into ISO MPEG-2 Layer-3 standard compressed audio and then Convert the WMF Content with that Transcoding into the MP3 file format solely for the purpose of immediately transferring such WMF Content to standalone digital devices, such as those which play MP3 and optionally other file formats, provided that:
- The MP3 Device does not natively support playback
of Windows Media Content;
- The DRM restrictions;
- The MP3 Content cannot be transferred, transcoded,
or used for any other purpose than local playback
on such MP3 Devices in their normal and ordinary
modes of operation.
This restriction described by Microsoft Windows Media SDK license agreement, section 2.3.
I'm using AEDT version 1.062c to do the conversions. Maybe check out the WMA to MP3 conversion FAQ from their website?
Good luck!
Nothing hampers a programmer's creativity as much as a compiler.
Advanced Encode Decode Tools allows you to convert files to/from wma, mp3, ogg, wav, ac3, vob. It will also remove DRM restrictions on WMA files when converting to mp3/ogg. It's $30, but quite a bit simpler than what you're suggesting.:)
IANAL(YYY), but I don't think the legality (or lack thereof) of file conversion technology is as blatantly illegal as you think. Fair Use of copyrighted materials is still a pretty shady area of the law, but it's not completly gone yet. I use the AEDT to convert DRM-ized WMA files from Napster in to MP3s so I can play them in iTunes (my preferred media player). I'm not sharing the files or reselling them or anything. Just trying to use the software that fits me the best. Does this automatically make me a criminal, or a good consumer because I didn't use a free P2P system to get the files?
Nothing hampers a programmer's creativity as much as a compiler.
I use a product called Advanced Encode Decode Tools to convert all of the DRM-ized WMA files I get from Napster in to standard MP3's. I've found that I like iTunes for organizing my collection (smart playlists rock!), but that Napster has a larger selection of music. Converting everything to MP3 gets you the best of both worlds.
Nothing hampers a programmer's creativity as much as a compiler.
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Notes from the SCO Road show
I decided to go to the SCO "City to City Tour" (%s/City to City/Farewell/g) out of morbid curiosity - what did SCO say about itself? I was especially interested to see if the time allotted to "roadmap" would even mention shippable product (o; It was interesting - not exactly as I expected, but interesting nonetheless. Highly recommended.
And apparently easy to attend. 64 seats, less than 20 attendees. Considering that when I applied I went to a waiting list, I was expecting a higher turnout... it may be worth putting yourself on the list for future stops of the show...
Grandest cheese at the presentation was VP of Marketing, Jeff Hunsaker. He started out with an hour the company's report card & backgrounder. Here's the view of SCO painted: 330 employees, 2+ million deployed units (no mention of OS breakdown - would be interesting to see what % of that is Caldera Linux), target market is small-ish business. Reference accounts seem to be franchised fast food & drug oriented. Think Pizza Hut & Wallgreens (Arnold Clarke & Argos were UK references, Shoppers Drug thrown in for us Canuks). Nothing IT-intensive. Avaya & Lucent were mentioned on the laundry list, however no detail was given, and I cannot imagine descendants of AT&T paying too much to some guys in Utah for hideous product (searches on their sites for SCO only brings mention of their "Special Customer Operations" group).
Oddly enough, market cap & stock price were mentioned extensively (who'd have thought?). Reference was made to using their capitalization as a means of acquisition; however no details were given (assuming there were any details to give). The fabled '2 quarters of profitability' was also mentioned. The name Caldera was dragged through the dirt, as they were never profitable. From the slides you'd think SCO had roots much, much deeper than the MS Xenix junk they spawned from. In fact, the analogy they whip out is that of Harley-Davidson (HD was purchased by AMF, went to hell, then arose re-branded as the mega-label you know today). I refrained from pointing out that pre/post-AMF Harley produced respected product, and did not send threatening letters to Yamaha owners...
Mention of the legal battle? Nothing technical. Representatives were up-front about their lack of legal knowledge, and inability to comment. It never got past the mud-slinging stage. Same old, same old. Their interest is in protecting their IP. This is about a breach of contract. Linux 2.4 code review shows Monterrey-esqe code relating to memory-access that must have come from AIX 5L. Caldera Linux customers are indemnified against legal action. Blah blah blah.
Interesting bits?
Their definition of IP (I've never seen a formal definition, and so some of the things on the list amused mildly): Copyright, Contracts, Methods, Trade Secrets, and Know-how (Know-how? How about "stuff we have" - can that be a IP subject too?). Their mention of McBride making some soon-to-be-published "top 5 influential executives list" (that'll be a keeper of an article). And heavy mention of HP's support. Reference was made to their web site removing their logo, however they emphatically associate SCOs current operations and HP's approval. Nothing to substantiate, however.
Really interesting bits?
The crowd. I was expecting Linux zealots. It was mostly a room full of SCO resellers. And they were not too big on having a love in. Nothing hostile, however not one positive comment for the morning's session. During the "we be so profitable" section of the spiel, one reseller in the crowd aske
From the Debian security advisory (earlier today):
two more buffer handling problems have been found in addition to the one described in DSA-382-1. It is not known if these bugs are exploitable, but as a precaution an upgrade is advised.
They're just fixing more buffer problems that came up after the first one was addressed yesterday.
While not necessarily IMAP related, you may want to look in to MailScanner. It's a mail relay program that accepts all incoming mail for your domain, does some analysis on the email and then forwards it on to your internal mail system. It can use something like 14 different virus scanners (all at once!) to do signature-based virus detection. At my work, we just use the attachment blocking feature to strip out attachments that we don't want coming in via email. 95% of the attachments that get quarantined at the mail gateway are viruses! It also integrates with spamassassin to help stop spam. It can automatically remove hostile HTML/scripting tags if you want, too.
Here are some examples of Uncle Sam subsidizing big-business:
-$1.6 million to McDonalds from 1986 to 1994 to help market Chicken McNuggets in Singapore -Exxon claiming $300 million in tax deductions on the settlement they paid when the Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of oil in Alaska -$11 million to Pillsbury to promote the Dough Boy in foreign countries -$1 billion to Lockheed Martin to help cover the cost of plant shutdowns.
All of this while these companies close plants and factories, move jobs overseas and record record profits!
* All of these figures from the book "Downsize This" by Michael Moore
Your mother was a hampster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Should the government have done something to protect operators of horse drawn buggies that were put out of business when cars came to the market?
You're missing the point... This isn't about some technology roll-over putting obsolete workers in the unemployment line. This is about companies operating in the richest country in the world screwing over the middle class so the executives can spend an extra week in the Bahamas or put in that new backyard tennis court they've been wanting. The article points out that this is not just an IT problem, but has been happening for years in other industries.
Labor unions in this country fought really tough battles to get us workplace standards that we take for granted today. Big-business fought like hell to keep the average american worker a low-waged, uneducated worker-bee. Thankfully, they lost that battle... Only problem is, now they're looking overseas for a workforce to exploit and the american workforce gets screwed again!
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Their credit card page isn't even under SSL. Ctrl-F4. No thanks!
"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
Don't tell me to RTFA. If I wanted to read articles, I'd buy Playboy.
Kids go around saying they're 31337 because they don't know enough to be 0x7A69.
Evil will always triumph, because Good is Dumb. -Dark Helmet
Have you tried using smart playlists in iTunes? It's probably the most flexable way to sort through the metadata in your music library I've seen yet. Basically, you can create filters that describe how a playlist is filled. Once the criteria is set, the list is dynamically updated as you add music to your library. For instance, you could have something like:etc, etc, etc...
Murphy's Law is recursive.
By any reasonable definition of the word "normal," the way 99% of the world lives is normal and what 1% of the world does that is different is abnormal. The rest of the world isn't shit poor, Americans are shit rich.
:)
You're right that Americans are abnormal, when you compare our lifestyle to 99% of the rest of the world. But that's the problem! C'mon, you can't really think that most of the world isn't poor? 99% of the world doesn't have enough food to eat, they live in mud and clay houses (partially responsible for the 30,000+ deaths in the Iranian earthquake recently) and many of their populations are being erradicated by AIDS and other preventable diseases. If not living in those conditions is wrong, then I don't wanna be right!
American history has been shaped by vast open spaces, abundant resources and nearly constant progress. The past couple centuries have been HIGHLY unusual compared to the rest of history, and should not be expected to last forever.
Besides the progess that you're describing, the other thing that was established during the past 100 or so years here is a true middle class. That's really what the rest of the world is missing. For every civilization with extreme poverty, you can be sure that there's a small few who are living in extreme abundance. We still have remnants of that here in the US, but our middle class is what makes us strong. It's also what is being hurt the most with all of this outsourcing.
If your income is $47,500 USD or higher, you are in the top 1% of the world's wage earners.
So what? While that is truly a sad fact, it goes to show that most of the world is shit poor, not that Americans/Europeans are overly compensated. Is the only other option to have all American workers earn $5/day? I'm afraid that our worlds C[EF]O's aren't likely to stop this trend of outsourcing until America and Europe are turned in to 3rd world countries also! Unfortunatly, then it will be too late.
Black and white are also shades of grey.
If you're going to post release notices on /. there either needs to be compelling new features (which should appear in the /. article) or it needs to be the reslease of Duke Nukem Forever.
DukeNukem Forever is hardly a point release... It's a sign of The Apocalypse!
Users are Losers. - Nancy Reagan
I just figured that since so many /. visitors are smart, educated, and generally well informed that I could get a decent answer here.
You must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot!
Users are Losers. - Nancy Reagan
Dude, check your links!
Here's a torrent of the ISO.
Here's an American FTP mirror.
ACK and you shall receive.
You're much better off using the black|grey|white hacker classes, although even that can be fuzzy at times.
Black and White are also shades of grey...
Or 300 billion lines of VB?
c:\> net send coworkers_machine Lunch?
c:\> net send coworkers_machine Smoke break?
c:\> net send coworkers_machine Beer night?
That's about all I've ever used it for...
Nothing hampers a programmer's creativity as much as a compiler.
I just did a little Google Search and it turns out that Mr. Strauss has given quite a few talks on Internet technology in the past. He also co-Hosted a talk titled Research Computing and Linux Clusters. So which side of the fence are you on Howie?
Nothing hampers a programmer's creativity as much as a compiler.
I'm using AEDT version 1.062c to do the conversions. Maybe check out the WMA to MP3 conversion FAQ from their website?
Good luck!
Nothing hampers a programmer's creativity as much as a compiler.
Advanced Encode Decode Tools allows you to convert files to/from wma, mp3, ogg, wav, ac3, vob. It will also remove DRM restrictions on WMA files when converting to mp3/ogg. It's $30, but quite a bit simpler than what you're suggesting. :)
IANAL(YYY), but I don't think the legality (or lack thereof) of file conversion technology is as blatantly illegal as you think. Fair Use of copyrighted materials is still a pretty shady area of the law, but it's not completly gone yet. I use the AEDT to convert DRM-ized WMA files from Napster in to MP3s so I can play them in iTunes (my preferred media player). I'm not sharing the files or reselling them or anything. Just trying to use the software that fits me the best. Does this automatically make me a criminal, or a good consumer because I didn't use a free P2P system to get the files?
Nothing hampers a programmer's creativity as much as a compiler.
I use a product called Advanced Encode Decode Tools to convert all of the DRM-ized WMA files I get from Napster in to standard MP3's. I've found that I like iTunes for organizing my collection (smart playlists rock!), but that Napster has a larger selection of music. Converting everything to MP3 gets you the best of both worlds.
Nothing hampers a programmer's creativity as much as a compiler.
Ummm, according to Microsoft, Visio standard costs $199 and Professional runs you $499. Get your facts straight, man!
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Notes from the SCO Road show
I decided to go to the SCO "City to City Tour" (%s/City to City/Farewell/g) out of morbid curiosity - what did SCO say about itself? I was especially interested to see if the time allotted to "roadmap" would even mention shippable product (o; It was interesting - not exactly as I expected, but interesting nonetheless. Highly recommended.
And apparently easy to attend. 64 seats, less than 20 attendees. Considering that when I applied I went to a waiting list, I was expecting a higher turnout ... it may be worth putting yourself on the list for future stops of the show ...
Grandest cheese at the presentation was VP of Marketing, Jeff Hunsaker. He started out with an hour the company's report card & backgrounder. Here's the view of SCO painted: 330 employees, 2+ million deployed units (no mention of OS breakdown - would be interesting to see what % of that is Caldera Linux), target market is small-ish business. Reference accounts seem to be franchised fast food & drug oriented. Think Pizza Hut & Wallgreens (Arnold Clarke & Argos were UK references, Shoppers Drug thrown in for us Canuks). Nothing IT-intensive. Avaya & Lucent were mentioned on the laundry list, however no detail was given, and I cannot imagine descendants of AT&T paying too much to some guys in Utah for hideous product (searches on their sites for SCO only brings mention of their "Special Customer Operations" group).
Oddly enough, market cap & stock price were mentioned extensively (who'd have thought?). Reference was made to using their capitalization as a means of acquisition; however no details were given (assuming there were any details to give). The fabled '2 quarters of profitability' was also mentioned. The name Caldera was dragged through the dirt, as they were never profitable. From the slides you'd think SCO had roots much, much deeper than the MS Xenix junk they spawned from. In fact, the analogy they whip out is that of Harley-Davidson (HD was purchased by AMF, went to hell, then arose re-branded as the mega-label you know today). I refrained from pointing out that pre/post-AMF Harley produced respected product, and did not send threatening letters to Yamaha owners ...
Mention of the legal battle? Nothing technical. Representatives were up-front about their lack of legal knowledge, and inability to comment. It never got past the mud-slinging stage. Same old, same old. Their interest is in protecting their IP. This is about a breach of contract. Linux 2.4 code review shows Monterrey-esqe code relating to memory-access that must have come from AIX 5L. Caldera Linux customers are indemnified against legal action. Blah blah blah.
Interesting bits?
Their definition of IP (I've never seen a formal definition, and so some of the things on the list amused mildly): Copyright, Contracts, Methods, Trade Secrets, and Know-how (Know-how? How about "stuff we have" - can that be a IP subject too?). Their mention of McBride making some soon-to-be-published "top 5 influential executives list" (that'll be a keeper of an article). And heavy mention of HP's support. Reference was made to their web site removing their logo, however they emphatically associate SCOs current operations and HP's approval. Nothing to substantiate, however.
Really interesting bits?
The crowd. I was expecting Linux zealots. It was mostly a room full of SCO resellers. And they were not too big on having a love in. Nothing hostile, however not one positive comment for the morning's session. During the "we be so profitable" section of the spiel, one reseller in the crowd aske
From the Debian security advisory (earlier today):
two more buffer handling problems have been found in addition to the one described in DSA-382-1. It is not known if these bugs are exploitable, but as a precaution an upgrade is advised.
They're just fixing more buffer problems that came up after the first one was addressed yesterday.
I blow my nose at your so called distro! You and all your silly English "ka-noppix"!
Now go away before I taunt you a second time-a!
While not necessarily IMAP related, you may want to look in to MailScanner. It's a mail relay program that accepts all incoming mail for your domain, does some analysis on the email and then forwards it on to your internal mail system. It can use something like 14 different virus scanners (all at once!) to do signature-based virus detection. At my work, we just use the attachment blocking feature to strip out attachments that we don't want coming in via email. 95% of the attachments that get quarantined at the mail gateway are viruses! It also integrates with spamassassin to help stop spam. It can automatically remove hostile HTML/scripting tags if you want, too.
We're using a neat MRTG based tool called mailscanner-mrtg to monitor our Mailscanner system. It produces pretty graphs.
All in all, it's a really great first line defense tool for keeping corporate email secure!
Good luck!
ACK and you shall receive.
Here are some examples of Uncle Sam subsidizing big-business:
-$1.6 million to McDonalds from 1986 to 1994 to help market Chicken McNuggets in Singapore
-Exxon claiming $300 million in tax deductions on the settlement they paid when the Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of oil in Alaska
-$11 million to Pillsbury to promote the Dough Boy in foreign countries
-$1 billion to Lockheed Martin to help cover the cost of plant shutdowns.
All of this while these companies close plants and factories, move jobs overseas and record record profits!
* All of these figures from the book "Downsize This" by Michael Moore
Your mother was a hampster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Should the government have done something to protect operators of horse drawn buggies that were put out of business when cars came to the market?
You're missing the point... This isn't about some technology roll-over putting obsolete workers in the unemployment line. This is about companies operating in the richest country in the world screwing over the middle class so the executives can spend an extra week in the Bahamas or put in that new backyard tennis court they've been wanting. The article points out that this is not just an IT problem, but has been happening for years in other industries.
Labor unions in this country fought really tough battles to get us workplace standards that we take for granted today. Big-business fought like hell to keep the average american worker a low-waged, uneducated worker-bee. Thankfully, they lost that battle... Only problem is, now they're looking overseas for a workforce to exploit and the american workforce gets screwed again!
g00r00?