I used this form to fill out an e-mail complaint. Selected 'Website Comments' as subject and left the order number field blank. There is an automated reply at once, and they say a live rep would reply within 24 hours, unless your e-mail gets bumped up the queue like mine, I still haven't got a reply though:)
Yep, a bit weird there, I suppose. I guess there are people who don't like OGG, anyway I didn't mean to flame anyone, or can't possibly see how it could be flameable;-)
Anyways, I just wrote to BuyMusic.com asking them the following two questions.
1. Would they support alternate browsers and OS's (Such as Linux/BSD).
2. Will they support alternate download formats such as MP3 and OGG.
Right after sending that, I got four replies from buymusic.com. Here is the latest....
You previously sent BuyMusic.com an email. Due to the nature of your request, we have escalated your email to an expert queue, where it will be answered as soon as possible by a specialist in the subject you asked about.
We are committed to respond to your email as soon as possible.
We appreciate your business.
And so, my question has escalated into something drastic over at buymusic.com and I should be getting a reply from an expert soon:)
I was looking at this guy's wooden assembly and all I could think was, why didn't he use an used dot matrix/ink printer for the carriage. That would certainly be pretty interesting to play with, and would definitly be more precise, ofcourse he'd still need the up and down movement done using another motor.
The reason for this is, the BINK guys refused to do a Linux port of their bink movie player/codec for games.
Now, I have problems with BINK, this video format doesnt even render on some high end gaming systems. I don't know why people still use BINK, it looks horrible on my Radeon 9700 (the neverwinter opening movie and so on - all blocky and stuff).
If they cant use the game engine to make the game movies, maybe they should use something that would work on all systems right? Mayebe even DivX/XviD/Mpeg4 would do the job (And certainly be small and highly detailed).
Not only that, if you click on the link that says "My Utah Search.com" on the right hand side of this page, you get to a page that advertises only big natural breasts!:)
I had the same cable from Radio Shack, but this cable does not recharge while you are online, so after 3-4 hours you have to recharge your phone.
I searched on the net and found this cable that does recharge while you are on the net too, it's 15 bucks. I got the cable and returned by Radio Shack cable.
And the good part is that the cable came with a small size cd that had the required software for windows (and also PIM updating tools for the phone), but I never tried this out, cause I use my phone only in Linux.
And for the troll who posted that this is getting charged (I see you guys on sprintusers all the time), no.. there is no charge. It's unlimited =)
Excuse me, even if the file was encrypted, the fingerprint for the same file shared all over would be the same and thus they would know when your sharing the latest Joe Millionar or Daredevil blah blah (who would do such a thing?! OMG).
Point is that fingerprinting probably just runs a md5sum on the file being sent or TCP fingerptints the transmitting bytes, this could not be defated by just encrypting the file !
Maybe something like bittorrent should enable small random bytes to be sent with the file when a file is being transmitted (which would defeat fingerprinting).
Well, the obvious choises are.. XP 2 or 2003, Mandrake/Redhat Z (where Z>7), OS X.A (Where A>1).
Now the serious stuff.
As Cringley likes to say Wifi would be more wide spread, I believe 802.11g would come out and outdate all other wireless lan technologies. Along with that, we'd see increasing number of community free wireless networks (That might or might not be connected to the Net).
America would skip the whole little-phone-philia, instead we'd be into bigger more bulky gadgets. I believe, the PDA's would get better batteries and thus would slowly start replacing phones (probably the biz ppl and young kids first).
Satellite based radio's would die and we'd see some nice shows on the sky when they fall out (just like the Iradium). This means Sirrus and XM. The cause for this would be better compression technologies and the recent opening of a spread spectrum by FCC that lets higher bandwith be sent over the airwaves. Stations would start to pump out studio (not cd as a/. story mentioned) quality audio out soon.
We'll also see a revival of the Dot com like companies, but this would be a more apprehensive revial, companies would be more conservative and we'd see most invetment into technology related with Games (console) and Porn. The old sex and violence.
IPV6 would be postponned and in return we'd see the invention of more and more firewalling/masqurading gadgets, routers would come firewalling/masqurading built in, people would start living within private networks.
Laws would be passed to ban P2P and such similar technologies, but these laws could not be enforced due to jurastiction issues and technology issues. The ppl who'd get hurt in the end would be those sharing files, they might get raided and sentenced. Those who make these software would be out of harms way. We'd see a reduction in the amount of spy ware due to community backlash.
Superman hype would create more superman games and gadgets. (Seriously).
We'll go on war, but our military research facilities would create enough products to stimulate the stangnent information market. Even though this technology would come into the commerical maket 25 years from the time it's created.
We'd see a decline in movie goers... DVD's would be released region free, but with hardware copyright devices.
Slashdot would continue to post these stories. And Cringley would be just himself and ranting like this.
Linux is not free as in beer. Linux is free as in freedom. To be free as in beer, the beer has to come with source. In this regard, MacOS X is free as in beer, since you get it when you buy a mac.
What would be nice is if one put hovers on it (like hovercraft), possibly damped the noise a bit, then it would be a real speeder.. I believe our current technology could make a working replica of the StarWars speeder if we wanted, we could even possibly exceed what the speeder did in Starwars... I've seen quite a few personal hovers but these tend to look more like golf cars and sound horrible.
Logically speaking, every distro you can think of has competent maintainers and or pseudo maintainers (like scripts that install), that does the necessary checking.
But, this necessary checking isn't sufficent. Your gentoo, just like any distribution (Redhat, Debian, Slackware) and *BSD is vulnarable if the MD5's themselves were compromised as well. With modified MD5 sums that give the right sum you're distro needs you would never know the difference between a trojaned file and a non-trojaned file.
Rather, the best way to go about this is to digitally sign the file and educate everyone in the community to use digitial signature checking.
I wrote a review too
on
Minority Report
·
· Score: 1, Interesting
I wrote a review of Minority Report in my Journal as well. Just wanted to write one before Katzdid =)
Correct terminology there my young anoymous coward.
From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]:
flash crowd Larry Niven's 1973 SF short story "Flash Crowd" predicted
that one consequence of cheap teleportation would be huge crowds
materializing almost instantly at the sites of interesting news stories.
Twenty years later the term passed into common use on the Internet to
describe exponential spikes in website or server usage when one passes a
certain threshold of popular interest (what this does to the server may
also be called {slashdot effect}).
I baught a great hp 4150 laptop for $300 from Ebay recently. It's a 366 Mhz P2 with 256mb ram and 6gig hd (now upgraded to 20gig) and 14 inch TTF. It's good for linux too, very stable box, and very cool inside (the fan only turns on when i do multiple kernel compiles). I had no problems running Linux on this apart from the neogmagic dual video/sound thing. The video part was ok (thought I'd wish they released the source so we can have XV working), the sound part is kinda funky but if you get the OSS drivers from 4front tech it's great. The guy also included a 10/100 3com PCMCIA ethernet card and a 56k PCMCIA modem.
One of the good things about this laptop include working hibernation (it's kernel based so works great with Linux, I think last time I rebooted was in Jan:)), I did some snooping around with the SMART system to find out how long the harddisk has been running and it appears the harddisk has been used for only for 3000 hours, which translates to less than 150 days of continous use for the laptop. It also appears that this laptop was previously owned by a coporation so everthing looks and acts brand new.
I'm pretty satisifed with the box, it's light, powerful enough to do most of my wokr (I dont play games), and good on the ego:)
You need to download the cc010911rh71.tar file, even though it says this file does not have IA64 cross-compiler, it does have it. When you untar, you'd find rpm files.
On my debian system. I ran alien as root on the intel-icc-5.0.1-129.i386.rpm which created the necessary deb. You dont need any other files on debian. dpkg -i the deb, intel files install under/opt so it's nice to know where they are.
One other thing you need to do is to add,/opt/intel/compiler50/ia32/lib to your/etc/ld.so.conf and do a ldconfig -v.
After that you can run the benchmarks from the Linux_cpu.zip file (get it from the article mentioned here). The icc is marginally better than gcc.
To compile application with icc, you'd need to add icc's path to your makefile or PATH.
An editor of a respected news portal should never have commited something like this. In paper media it would have been much better to resign and safe face afterwards. This person using psudonames trolled LinuxToday's talkback forums and flamed Linux, Linus, SlashDot etc. Often he used anti-linux and sentiments and questioned the existance of an opensource/linux community. He should resign IMHO. If LinuxToday is to be respected, this is the only way out for this publication.
Slashdot Mirror
Hi,
:)
I used this form to fill out an e-mail complaint. Selected 'Website Comments' as subject and left the order number field blank. There is an automated reply at once, and they say a live rep would reply within 24 hours, unless your e-mail gets bumped up the queue like mine, I still haven't got a reply though
Yep, a bit weird there, I suppose. I guess there are people who don't like OGG, anyway I didn't mean to flame anyone, or can't possibly see how it could be flameable ;-)
:)
Anyways, I just wrote to BuyMusic.com asking them the following two questions.
1. Would they support alternate browsers and OS's (Such as Linux/BSD).
2. Will they support alternate download formats such as MP3 and OGG.
Right after sending that, I got four replies from buymusic.com. Here is the latest....
You previously sent BuyMusic.com an email. Due to the nature of your
request, we have escalated your email to an expert queue, where it will
be answered as soon as possible by a specialist in the subject you
asked
about.
We are committed to respond to your email as soon as possible.
We appreciate your business.
And so, my question has escalated into something drastic over at buymusic.com and I should be getting a reply from an expert soon
Give me OGG or give me death.
I was looking at this guy's wooden assembly and all I could think was, why didn't he use an used dot matrix/ink printer for the carriage. That would certainly be pretty interesting to play with, and would definitly be more precise, ofcourse he'd still need the up and down movement done using another motor.
The reason for this is, the BINK guys refused to do a Linux port of their bink movie player/codec for games.
Now, I have problems with BINK, this video format doesnt even render on some high end gaming systems. I don't know why people still use BINK, it looks horrible on my Radeon 9700 (the neverwinter opening movie and so on - all blocky and stuff).
If they cant use the game engine to make the game movies, maybe they should use something that would work on all systems right? Mayebe even DivX/XviD/Mpeg4 would do the job (And certainly be small and highly detailed).
I just wish game companies would stop using BINK.
Not only that, if you click on the link that says "My Utah Search.com" on the right hand side of this page, you get to a page that advertises only big natural breasts! :)
(Oh got to thank the register for this).
I had the same cable from Radio Shack, but this cable does not recharge while you are online, so after 3-4 hours you have to recharge your phone.
I searched on the net and found this cable that does recharge while you are on the net too, it's 15 bucks. I got the cable and returned by Radio Shack cable.
And the good part is that the cable came with a small size cd that had the required software for windows (and also PIM updating tools for the phone), but I never tried this out, cause I use my phone only in Linux.
And for the troll who posted that this is getting charged (I see you guys on sprintusers all the time), no.. there is no charge. It's unlimited =)
EF or FF?
Definitely one of the most philosophical comment's I've seen so far on /.
Or, just find the keymaker
GNOME:
Unzip the fonts into ~/.fonts , run fc-cache.
It should be listed now.
Danke.
It took you 2 movies to get the logo done? I knew things were slow in middle earth, but this slow ? :)
Her name is Laurie Garrett she works for Newsday, she's a well known journalist/writer.
Excuse me, even if the file was encrypted, the fingerprint for the same file shared all over would be the same and thus they would know when your sharing the latest Joe Millionar or Daredevil blah blah (who would do such a thing?! OMG).
Point is that fingerprinting probably just runs a md5sum on the file being sent or TCP fingerptints the transmitting bytes, this could not be defated by just encrypting the file !
Maybe something like bittorrent should enable small random bytes to be sent with the file when a file is being transmitted (which would defeat fingerprinting).
You can get one of those t-shirts from here
Well, the obvious choises are .. XP 2 or 2003, Mandrake/Redhat Z (where Z>7), OS X.A (Where A>1).
/. story mentioned) quality audio out soon.
Now the serious stuff.
As Cringley likes to say Wifi would be more wide spread, I believe 802.11g would come out and outdate all other wireless lan technologies. Along with that, we'd see increasing number of community free wireless networks (That might or might not be connected to the Net).
America would skip the whole little-phone-philia, instead we'd be into bigger more bulky gadgets. I believe, the PDA's would get better batteries and thus would slowly start replacing phones (probably the biz ppl and young kids first).
Satellite based radio's would die and we'd see some nice shows on the sky when they fall out (just like the Iradium). This means Sirrus and XM. The cause for this would be better compression technologies and the recent opening of a spread spectrum by FCC that lets higher bandwith be sent over the airwaves. Stations would start to pump out studio (not cd as a
We'll also see a revival of the Dot com like companies, but this would be a more apprehensive revial, companies would be more conservative and we'd see most invetment into technology related with Games (console) and Porn. The old sex and violence.
IPV6 would be postponned and in return we'd see the invention of more and more firewalling/masqurading gadgets, routers would come firewalling/masqurading built in, people would start living within private networks.
Laws would be passed to ban P2P and such similar technologies, but these laws could not be enforced due to jurastiction issues and technology issues. The ppl who'd get hurt in the end would be those sharing files, they might get raided and sentenced. Those who make these software would be out of harms way. We'd see a reduction in the amount of spy ware due to community backlash.
Superman hype would create more superman games and gadgets. (Seriously).
We'll go on war, but our military research facilities would create enough products to stimulate the stangnent information market. Even though this technology would come into the commerical maket 25 years from the time it's created.
We'd see a decline in movie goers... DVD's would be released region free, but with hardware copyright devices.
Slashdot would continue to post these stories. And Cringley would be just himself and ranting like this.
Linux is not free as in beer. Linux is free as in freedom. To be free as in beer, the beer has to come with source. In this regard, MacOS X is free as in beer, since you get it when you buy a mac.
What would be nice is if one put hovers on it (like hovercraft), possibly damped the noise a bit, then it would be a real speeder.. I believe our current technology could make a working replica of the StarWars speeder if we wanted, we could even possibly exceed what the speeder did in Starwars... I've seen quite a few personal hovers but these tend to look more like golf cars and sound horrible.
This is a no-issue.
Logically speaking, every distro you can think of has competent maintainers and or pseudo maintainers (like scripts that install), that does the necessary checking.
But, this necessary checking isn't sufficent. Your gentoo, just like any distribution (Redhat, Debian, Slackware) and *BSD is vulnarable if the MD5's themselves were compromised as well. With modified MD5 sums that give the right sum you're distro needs you would never know the difference between a trojaned file and a non-trojaned file.
Rather, the best way to go about this is to digitally sign the file and educate everyone in the community to use digitial signature checking.
I wrote a review of Minority Report in my Journal as well. Just wanted to write one before Katzdid =)
From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]:
I believe this is a better term than
I baught a great hp 4150 laptop for $300 from Ebay recently. It's a 366 Mhz P2 with 256mb ram and 6gig hd (now upgraded to 20gig) and 14 inch TTF. It's good for linux too, very stable box, and very cool inside (the fan only turns on when i do multiple kernel compiles). I had no problems running Linux on this apart from the neogmagic dual video/sound thing. The video part was ok (thought I'd wish they released the source so we can have XV working), the sound part is kinda funky but if you get the OSS drivers from 4front tech it's great. The guy also included a 10/100 3com PCMCIA ethernet card and a 56k PCMCIA modem.
:)), I did some snooping around with the SMART system to find out how long the harddisk has been running and it appears the harddisk has been used for only for 3000 hours, which translates to less than 150 days of continous use for the laptop. It also appears that this laptop was previously owned by a coporation so everthing looks and acts brand new.
:)
One of the good things about this laptop include working hibernation (it's kernel based so works great with Linux, I think last time I rebooted was in Jan
I'm pretty satisifed with the box, it's light, powerful enough to do most of my wokr (I dont play games), and good on the ego
I plan to keep this box even if I upgrade.
Enjoy..
Greetings,
/opt so it's nice to know where they are.
/opt/intel/compiler50/ia32/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf and do a ldconfig -v.
You need to download the cc010911rh71.tar file, even though it says this file does not have IA64 cross-compiler, it does have it. When you untar, you'd find rpm files.
On my debian system. I ran alien as root on the intel-icc-5.0.1-129.i386.rpm which created the necessary deb. You dont need any other files on debian. dpkg -i the deb, intel files install under
One other thing you need to do is to add,
After that you can run the benchmarks from the Linux_cpu.zip file (get it from the article mentioned here). The icc is marginally better than gcc.
To compile application with icc, you'd need to add icc's path to your makefile or PATH.
Enjoy
I believe the lower ID's have less enthropy, so you might want to invest in a newer account if you wish to do more encrypted discussions ;)
An editor of a respected news portal should never have commited something like this. In paper media it would have been much better to resign and safe face afterwards. This person using psudonames trolled LinuxToday's talkback forums and flamed Linux, Linus, SlashDot etc. Often he used anti-linux and sentiments and questioned the existance of an opensource/linux community. He should resign IMHO. If LinuxToday is to be respected, this is the only way out for this publication.