based on 5 years experience in my own company, all projects I need to deliver, mostly based on webprogramming (perl, c, python, php) just take (lots of) time to finish...
There are 2 different zones, a zone technical and a zone marketing/customer relations. These zones seem to be having a left and a right wing.
--learning curve-- It's a know-your-newest specifications; to stay in trend with the latest technology...
It's a learning curve, you need to learn the language while working in it, examples do it, tryouts do it, learning the basics of script programming and security (which they do not teach at schools?!?). I am referring to buggy perl scripts that are on the net...
--visual-editing-trend-- I see the trend "in Dreamweaver you can make a site in a week" thing, so the layout gets made, it gets imported, converted to sleazy html, which could be optimized to html4 in no time.
This makes the people that try to follow the standards look awfull, because the "visuals(1)" are the same but the underlying code is crappy. Dreamweaver outputs code that's sometimes completely off the standards; contains buggy java script code crashing out Firefox -> and it gets mostly delivered like that to the customer.
(1) The visual thing is there - "marketing" would be happy, the customer paid and there-u-go!
--standards-- Standards are nice to get to, because you are sure it works when it needs to work with full coverage...
--html editors--
The problem is the good use of html editors that don't f*ck up the code, that leave it as it so a user, who doesn't know html can edits their sites.. Editplus we recommend for it (by personal experience) but it's still not visual enough for most people... Maybe they exist? where are thou?
Don't shoot marketing, but marketing, listen to the engineer!
Don't shoot the pianist, but pianist, listen to the sheet-of-music u got!
The time such engineer, programmer and network (the systems are the network) administrator spends daily is never valued. System administration day my ass... I didn't went to holidays in 5 years long...
3 months mean 3 months and not 1 month...
1 year means 1 year and not 2 months...
It's definitely the bad karma U get from someone who wants to see a flow, and the programmer that needs to break (own) standards because of that flow that needs going on...
It's the pressure you get, the daily job, it's nice to do but let us to it on a normal way and not in a rush?
It's not only the pressure, but the overpressure, once you get the pressure to change your habits to a fast economic standard, you will deliver more quanity and less quality.
Coding by hand is less fast than using Dreamweaver, but, there are middle-ways like using Dreamweaver as basic and optimizing/tainting/cleaning out the code by hand afterwards...
Those things take time, if you would need three months for a project it means setup time, work time and ending time; the ending time are te finishing touches a painter does to his painting, the ending of a book and the ending of a movie; just the same with such projects...
A system administrator who wants more system-administration-days:)
To be honest, I use voicedialing quite frequently when I am using my bluetooth headset. I push the button on the headset for 2 seconds, I say the name which is programmed in my Nokia phone and the phone auto-dials in a matter of seconds without being distracted from the rest of my work or driving. It never fails, even under very noisy circumstances...
Whenever I need to ask driving directions it's quite easy since I don't have to search the name first, then call, wait for an answer and if the person doesn't respond hit redial. I just press two times the button and the system does the rest.
Well, I am Belgian too and got to say I do not like a private company known not to be able to protect their own products to be making our PRIVATE ID cards containing our private information.
Next to that, it shouldn't be a verification for MSN services; rather the ID card should be having the ability to have a system like "adultpass", which should be ran by the government; to protect minors from entering the Belgian MSN chatsites. This to protect our data from hacks later on.
Currently no-one can have my information; because it is fully private: my "staatsregisternummer" (in english this is the state registration number, based on your birthdate and a random number) and my identity card number will never get read except by health-services, my bank and the cops/government. Very sometimes when someone asks a copy of my identity card I give my drivers license because I do not like to give all my information to a company; which I do not know what they DO with that information afterwards.
I don't want that number to travel over the Internet or to be used in MSN or Passport. Sure not with the reputation of their security.
Currently we got a SIS card, which contains information required by our health services to be paid back a huge amount of our costs; why should Microsoft be able, to access these records, as private company? Since that SIS card (with smart chip) will probably be thrown out whenever this eID comes out...
It's a good thing this eID is coming, but I find it a very bad thing it will be centralized and depending on Microsoft; They simply do not have my trust.
I am not so paranoid, I lock my door with 5 bolts; one key goes on the cats neck, one key goes on my neck and 3 keys I keep on a random position in my house. Furtheron I have a voiceprint, fingerprint, retina scanner and breath analyser to check if it is me logging on on my computer. My wall has RF wallpaper which acts like a Faraday cage and is fully protected from and for interference to the outside. My cat needs to get food every day 3 times or a 999db alarm goes off destroying my precious p*rn drive and ears of the neightbour 20 blocks further in the street... Big brother isn't wa
Hey, 4 suits are ringing my doorbell, gotta go answer the door for a moment.. lets open the window on the back now and use PLAN B!!!
I knew it had nothing to do with aliens ; it shows clearly a power outlet, something "they" are probably very much more advanced in... (tinfoil hat -is- on so I ain't being brainprogrammed he*$#)
I have The Cube and Hypercube(2) on DVD and am glad I bought them... Although the first, older one looks more "realistically" in effects it's still a fascinating sci-fi/mystery/thriller with certain horror effects ; the second one is more sf and advanced.. where the ending is a big difference with the first one (no spoilers).
I like the design of the case even more, but certainly because I have seen the movies a few times and it has a certain designaspect/boxed scenario; I wonder why no more case manufacturers go behind these designs and give the PC a breeze-for-the-eye too...
The Alienware cases are nice, but the costprice is too high; there should be interests to beautify the cases in such a drastic matter ? (not a box like usually)...
Well, I am already since I am already using 13 years pc's and followed the entire evolution through Amiga, GEM, MSDOS,... I want to get accustomed with a Mac. I am a dedicated PC user; the servers I maintain are running Linux and NetBSD, my laptop, 2 working beasts and gaming machine (for mostly Warcraft sheeptags and Diablo II). are PC's.
It's not only the style I want to be accustomed with... I also want functionality.. The OS needs to be customizable enough; eventually kernel tweaking or GUI tweaking could be a nice thing. Since it is running a UNIX kernel it must be easy to adapt from Linux/BSD me thinks?
I am not wanting to get rid of my PC's, but maybe a extra apple in the house could be healthier than working with something that could fail when it's needed most (Murphy's law? IANAL)
What type of apple I should buy... I got accustomed with the Mac OS X and it seems to be requiring less maintenance than the Windows PC equivalent.
Is there any Linux X server like Mac OS X ?
I love to use the interface; it's smooth, it runs and don't see it crashing often.. XP and 98 crashes weekly 3-4 times and gets bloated after a time ready to be reinstalled...
Anything like:
Cooledit for Mac OS? And I mean really as good (or better?) I am DJ, I also make songs myself using the multitrack technology of it; I also want to be able to process my soundfiles with compression and effects wherever needed.
Instead of Office, Openoffice?
good ssh programs like securecrt? (I love the program, will be tabbed in next version)... It's convenience...
good editors like Editplus ? (It just works - always - have an old license and it still works perfect...
does it work good with windows sharing (netbios) ? (I know about Samba but sometimes got probs with it - its not exactly point-and-click there unless using Webmin or such..
Needs to work 24/7, no overheating issues like my Compaq EVO N1000v laptop (which needs to be issued back to Compaq because of failing parts - 5th time!!) and Compaq finds it normal?
Stuff like Paintshop Pro (Like it more over photoshop ; less bloated and faster)?
good and easy desktop player like winamp ? (RIP)
Can I turn off automatic updates?
I am accustomed with Slackware, NetBSD and Solaris. Is OS X as maintainable as Slackware? Everything through the prompt using Bash?
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Windows its like the smith-and-wesson interface: point and click... but if it fails u've got a problem...
If I had a message from a trusted source only, and I would see my email indicator flashing, I would read my email as soon as I have the time, which is less intrusive than any IM existing currently.
Since there is a lot of SPAM out there, I cannot rely on that indicator anymore, which means I only check my mail every 2 to 5 hours; because every 10 minutes I have at least 2 to 10 spam messages waiting.
I still sortof swear with my Archos ; using it now for over a year, every week I record my mixing session(s) on it and it works perfectly. Sometimes I can rip a part of my mixes and works great.
There are currently not a lot of players on the market and easy to buy in Europe. Bought the FMR20 for 310euro and my soulmate bought one 2 months later a JBR20 for 299euro. They both work like a charm.
One had some probs in the beginning; I needed to revive it before it could be turned on. After a week it didn't show up the problems anymore and since then it works perfectly.
-slightly offtopic- Now, What I like more, next to the 20gb (that will be extended to 60gb soon) is that it would record Wav. Which is also not possible with this device?
I also wonder why the Archos cannot record in CBR mode instead of VBR; It can't record to.wav because of the encoder ; but isn't the CPU fast enough to use your own "encoder" for example in Rockbox? I am using Rockbox, only having 1 prob when recording long files in VBR they seem not to be able to be opened in Cooledit or Winamp.
Clinton was being tore apart, even internationally, because he had sex with an intern. He lied about it and "deeply regrets that" (we all know the speech I guess)
Although, Bush killed dozens of people by a lie, not even getting a slap on the wrist. People believe in him as their leader who can justify anything.
So what's the difference between a blowjob and a war? The blowjob didn't kill people, the war killed dozens of people and will probably kill more dozens of people...
You can better use the Longshine LCS8200 as NAS storage. It's a disk with ucLinux (embedded) and costs about 110 euros local price.
I have it here, it runs a FTP and samba server; has some bugs but if the opensource community opens the image/firmware so we can fix everything ourselves; it's one of the better drives you can get.
It's completely in Aluminium, the interface currently best works under IE, since the drive crashes when using under Netscape.
The newest firmware supports multiple users with multiple priveleges.
* Posted by CmdrTaco * by VL, viperlair, the company selling these PSU's
NEWS for Nerds or STUFF for Nerds? If I need stuff for nerds I go to my local PC supplier or I go to thinkgeek but this is a lil bit over the top not ?
Me and my friend have bought the same laptop about 1 1/2 year ago, the Compaq EVO n1000v. They where both bought in Belgium.
Both laptops just "shutdown", they get very slow and power goes out without any warning, black screen and you can restart ; bye data/document you where working on at that moment.
Most of the times my friend gets it when he is working in Word, which is a real annoying situation (learned him to save often though...)
I tested and seems to be my 2 memory modules, both Compaq, have been tested bad. I wonder if he has the same test results as I have...
The bad thing about this situation is that I have to send back my memory, making it unable for me to work on my laptop for a max of 3 days... I was wishing they had a replacement program like APC does with their UPS's, they send you another UPS and you can pack and send yours back afterwards; minimal downtime.
I have made a post about this matter on my personal site ; since it's something I am quite annoyed of... It's updated to a full article/rant. --- My soulmate wanted to rip the CD to put on his Archos Jukebox, since he is not using CD's anymore but still buys them to be legal and to have the full version.
Since I have put in the CD I can't run my company invoice system anymore, can't do anything at all with that cdrom drive, can't even play a game. Every time I put in the CD it cannot be recognized by my system.
I already tried to uninstall the software but the problem stays, which forces me to reinstall the PC completely (which I definitely don't have the time for now at the moment and will cost me days to get my invoicing and updates done).
Is this legal ? Can this be allowed ? I am literally loosing money now just because I wanted to rip that legal and bought cd for him straight to his Archos. It's not even music I like to listen to... (no offense intended to all fans around here)...
Apparantly it is legal folks.. CD's that demolish your PC ready to reinstall!...
I am really starting to get even more annoyed since I do not know which CD's I can even TRUST anymore without the need to re-install my PC? To stay on topic ; A lot of data is on backup but also a lot of data (my vinyl and protected CD's ripped to WAV format) will be lost after this re-install.
These copyprotections are taking more time than I have; to be even more specific, certain CD's like Solid Sounds I need to rip manually to be able to USE this CD in my older car cd player and pro Denon DJ CD player!!! Since I am DJ and using vinyl and CD's a lot I find this unacceptable. Put in this pro-DJ player and you got to wait up to 6 minutes before the CD *might* get read; which is too long for a clubDJ to mix to the next song; unless I have a 8-10 minute song running from vinyl...
Is this copyprotection a convenience only for the record company or should the audio CD be a convenience for the listener? Where's the time you put in the CD in your favorite cd player you like to listen to the music you like ? The time of putting your cd in your car cdplayer, cd-rom drive or professional CD player is over and it's only getting worse, looking to this example of the latest CD I tried to rip for my friend.
And this is not even the end, my soulmate has bought 2 other CD's, which one of them is the new Faithless CD (the other one I can't remember because we have a different taste (and yet the same) of music) and he can't rip it to use on his MP3 player *and* he can't use it on his home CD player (unreadable disks).
I used to buy 2 to 5 cd's a month, since I am not sure anymore which cd's work or not I started buying more vinyl again, but hell, I do not want to buy ANY releases of the same producers that cripple the audio CD's I have bought for 20 EURO or more!
The recording industry has lost at least 600 EURO last year only because I do not want to buy or use cd's anymore.. what's the use to buy a cd if I can't use it?
I have built up a nice record collection of +30000 vinyl records and +2000 cd's. Probably the collection of my cd's will not be updated anymore as I protest to this kind of behavior towards the consumer. I currently have about 62 cd's of the last 2 years that I cannot use at all unless I rip it and copy it. This is about 1200 EURO/$ I have lost because I cannot use them as DJ.
This will conclude the recording industry will not get MY money of minimally 720 EURO/$ per year anymore, which I will spend on independent vinyl recording companies which are not related to the ones that cripple MY cd's I have bought with my well-deserved money which I pay my taxes on.
For so far my rant... for the ones that care ; I started to care a lot since I have lost my cd-rom drive on a very mysterious way
The full comment what happened to my pc is available here and I am still not happy with it....
I wonder why I deserved my CD-ROM drive not to be working anymore because I have tried to copy my friends legal-bought CD to the Archos of him.
I can't read anything anymore through the CD-ROM drive, no data and no audio cd's, nothing works since I have inserted the new Beasty Boys CD.
I am really starting to get annoyed since this means a complete re-install of that PC which I do not have the time (or money) for. A lot of data is on backup but also a lot of data (my vinyl and protected CD's ripped to WAV format) will be lost after this re-install.
These copyprotections are taking more time than I have; to be even more specific, certain CD's like Solid Sounds I need to rip manually to be able to USE this CD in my older car cd player and pro Denon DJ CD player!!! Since I am DJ and using vinyl and CD's a lot I find this unacceptable.
Is this copyprotection a convenience only for the record company or should the audio CD be a convenience for the listener? Where's the time you put in the CD in your favorite cd player you like to listen to the music you like ? The time of putting your cd in your car cdplayer, cd-rom drive or professional CD player is over and it's only getting worse, looking to this example of the latest CD I tried to rip for my friend.
I used to buy 2 to 5 cd's a month, since I am not sure anymore which cd's work or not I started buying more vinyl again, but hell, I do not want to buy ANY releases of the same producers that cripple the audio CD's I have bought for 20 EURO or more!
The recording industry has lost at least 600 EURO last year only because I do not want to buy or use cd's anymore.. what's the use to buy a cd if I can't use it?
I have built up a nice record collection of +30000 vinyl records and +2000 cd's. Probably the collection of my cd's will not be updated anymore as protest to this kind of behavior towards the consumer. I currently have about 62 cd's of the last 2 years that I cannot use at all unless I rip it and copy it. This is about 1200 EURO/$ I have lost because I cannot use them as DJ.
This will conclude the recording industry will not get MY money of minimally 720 EURO/$ per year anymore, which I will spend on independent vinyl recording companies which are not related to the ones that cripple MY cd's I have bought with my well-deserved money.
I tried to uninstall that driver, tried to uninstall it through system settings, disabled it, tried to reboot, removed the program physically by deleting it, tried to remove the cd-rom drive through system settings, reinstalled the cd-rom drive...
It still does not recognize the cd's - very weird but it happened when I "installed" that CD...
I wonder why I deserved my CD-ROM drive not to be working anymore because I have tried to copy my friends legal-bought CD to the Archos of him.
I can't read anything anymore through the CD-ROM drive, no data and no audio cd's, nothing works since I have inserted the new Beasty Boys CD.
I am really starting to get annoyed since this means a complete re-install of that PC which I do not have the time (or money) for. A lot of data is on backup but also a lot of data (my vinyl and protected CD's ripped to WAV format) will be lost after this re-install.
These copyprotections are taking more time than I have; to be even more specific, certain CD's like Solid Sounds I need to rip manually to be able to USE this CD in my older car cd player and pro Denon DJ CD player!!! Since I am DJ and using vinyl and CD's a lot I find this unacceptable.
Is this copyprotection a convenience only for the record company or should the audio CD be a convenience for the listener? Where's the time you put in the CD in your favorite cd player you like to listen to the music you like ? The time of putting your cd in your car cdplayer, cd-rom drive or professional CD player is over and it's only getting worse, looking to this example of the latest CD I tried to rip for my friend.
I used to buy 2 to 5 cd's a month, since I am not sure anymore which cd's work or not I started buying more vinyl again, but hell, I do not want to buy ANY releases of the same producers that cripple the audio CD's I have bought for 20 EURO or more!
The recording industry has lost at least 600 EURO last year only because I do not want to buy or use cd's anymore.. what's the use to buy a cd if I can't use it?
I have built up a nice record collection of +30000 vinyl records and +2000 cd's. Probably the collection of my cd's will not be updated anymore as protest to this kind of behavior towards the consumer. I currently have about 62 cd's of the last 2 years that I cannot use at all unless I rip it and copy it. This is about 1200 EURO/$ I have lost because I cannot use them as DJ.
This will conclude the recording industry will not get MY money of minimally 720 EURO/$ per year anymore, which I will spend on independent vinyl recording companies which are not related to the ones that cripple MY cd's I have bought with my well-deserved money.
Since I did it myself I know for sure nothing more happened. I rip a lot of cd's of myself to my own archos so I can use it whenever I am travelling.
Never had this problem before, only one time had the problem a Solid Sounds CD did not want to leave the CD-ROM drive because it was copyprotected but a paperclip does the trick...
Although this problem really annoys the hell out of me because I am now unable to use MY pc for what it's being used for daily.
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It's a know-your-newest specifications; to stay in trend with the latest technology...
It's a learning curve, you need to learn the language while working in it, examples do it, tryouts do it, learning the basics of script programming and security (which they do not teach at schools?!?). I am referring to buggy perl scripts that are on the net...
I see the trend "in Dreamweaver you can make a site in a week" thing, so the layout gets made, it gets imported, converted to sleazy html, which could be optimized to html4 in no time.
This makes the people that try to follow the standards look awfull, because the "visuals(1)" are the same but the underlying code is crappy. Dreamweaver outputs code that's sometimes completely off the standards; contains buggy java script code crashing out Firefox -> and it gets mostly delivered like that to the customer.
(1) The visual thing is there - "marketing" would be happy, the customer paid and there-u-go!
Standards are nice to get to, because you are sure it works when it needs to work with full coverage...
Don't shoot the pianist, but pianist, listen to the sheet-of-music u got!
Coding by hand is less fast than using Dreamweaver, but, there are middle-ways like using Dreamweaver as basic and optimizing/tainting/cleaning out the code by hand afterwards ...
Those things take time, if you would need three months for a project it means setup time, work time and ending time; the ending time are te finishing touches a painter does to his painting, the ending of a book and the ending of a movie; just the same with such projects...
A system administrator who wants more system-administration-days
What keeps us from using 911-1111 inhere?
Why would he have endangered a life with it? It seems to be 911-5555 is a perfect valid number even
I know if I dial 100 and I add 1111; the emergency services here will not be dialed
Which bot would anyway be that stupid to catch numbers like that?
550 results
Which bot would be even stupid to get (911) 1111 or (911) 5555 or 911 5555 ?
in related news:
1984 called and it wants 1998's freedom too!
To be honest, I use voicedialing quite frequently when I am using my bluetooth headset. I push the button on the headset for 2 seconds, I say the name which is programmed in my Nokia phone and the phone auto-dials in a matter of seconds without being distracted from the rest of my work or driving. It never fails, even under very noisy circumstances
Whenever I need to ask driving directions it's quite easy since I don't have to search the name first, then call, wait for an answer and if the person doesn't respond hit redial. I just press two times the button and the system does the rest.
Well, I am Belgian too and got to say I do not like a private company known not to be able to protect their own products to be making our PRIVATE ID cards containing our private information.
Next to that, it shouldn't be a verification for MSN services; rather the ID card should be having the ability to have a system like "adultpass", which should be ran by the government; to protect minors from entering the Belgian MSN chatsites. This to protect our data from hacks later on.
Currently no-one can have my information; because it is fully private: my "staatsregisternummer" (in english this is the state registration number, based on your birthdate and a random number) and my identity card number will never get read except by health-services, my bank and the cops/government. Very sometimes when someone asks a copy of my identity card I give my drivers license because I do not like to give all my information to a company; which I do not know what they DO with that information afterwards.
I don't want that number to travel over the Internet or to be used in MSN or Passport. Sure not with the reputation of their security.
Currently we got a SIS card, which contains information required by our health services to be paid back a huge amount of our costs; why should Microsoft be able, to access these records, as private company? Since that SIS card (with smart chip) will probably be thrown out whenever this eID comes out...
It's a good thing this eID is coming, but I find it a very bad thing it will be centralized and depending on Microsoft; They simply do not have my trust.
I am not so paranoid, I lock my door with 5 bolts; one key goes on the cats neck, one key goes on my neck and 3 keys I keep on a random position in my house. Furtheron I have a voiceprint, fingerprint, retina scanner and breath analyser to check if it is me logging on on my computer. My wall has RF wallpaper which acts like a Faraday cage and is fully protected from and for interference to the outside. My cat needs to get food every day 3 times or a 999db alarm goes off destroying my precious p*rn drive and ears of the neightbour 20 blocks further in the street ... Big brother isn't wa
.. lets open the window on the back now and use PLAN B!!!
Hey, 4 suits are ringing my doorbell, gotta go answer the door for a moment
If U got slashdot tattooed on your skin you must be a real die-hard-core nerd...
and I thought they where extinct and replaced by MSCE's!
I knew it had nothing to do with aliens ; it shows clearly a power outlet, something "they" are probably very much more advanced in... (tinfoil hat -is- on so I ain't being brainprogrammed he*$#)
.. where the ending is a big difference with the first one (no spoilers).
I have The Cube and Hypercube(2) on DVD and am glad I bought them... Although the first, older one looks more "realistically" in effects it's still a fascinating sci-fi/mystery/thriller with certain horror effects ; the second one is more sf and advanced
I like the design of the case even more, but certainly because I have seen the movies a few times and it has a certain designaspect/boxed scenario; I wonder why no more case manufacturers go behind these designs and give the PC a breeze-for-the-eye too...
The Alienware cases are nice, but the costprice is too high; there should be interests to beautify the cases in such a drastic matter ? (not a box like usually)...
It's not only the style I want to be accustomed with ... I also want functionality .. The OS needs to be customizable enough; eventually kernel tweaking or GUI tweaking could be a nice thing. Since it is running a UNIX kernel it must be easy to adapt from Linux/BSD me thinks?
I am not wanting to get rid of my PC's, but maybe a extra apple in the house could be healthier than working with something that could fail when it's needed most (Murphy's law? IANAL)
What type of apple I should buy... I got accustomed with the Mac OS X and it seems to be requiring less maintenance than the Windows PC equivalent.
Is there any Linux X server like Mac OS X ?
I love to use the interface; it's smooth, it runs and don't see it crashing often.. XP and 98 crashes weekly 3-4 times and gets bloated after a time ready to be reinstalled ...
Anything like:
- Cooledit for Mac OS? And I mean really as good (or better?) I am DJ, I also make songs myself using the multitrack technology of it; I also want to be able to process my soundfiles with compression and effects wherever needed.
- Instead of Office, Openoffice?
- good ssh programs like securecrt? (I love the program, will be tabbed in next version)... It's convenience
...
- good editors like Editplus ? (It just works - always - have an old license and it still works perfect...
- does it work good with windows sharing (netbios) ? (I know about Samba but sometimes got probs with it - its not exactly point-and-click there unless using Webmin or such
..
- Needs to work 24/7, no overheating issues like my Compaq EVO N1000v laptop (which needs to be issued back to Compaq because of failing parts - 5th time!!) and Compaq finds it normal?
- Stuff like Paintshop Pro (Like it more over photoshop ; less bloated and faster)?
- good and easy desktop player like winamp ? (RIP)
- Can I turn off automatic updates?
- I am accustomed with Slackware, NetBSD and Solaris. Is OS X as maintainable as Slackware? Everything through the prompt using Bash?
---Windows its like the smith-and-wesson interface: point and click... but if it fails u've got a problem
Do U guys really think a troll could sit in front of a CRT or LCD screen jerking off on porn?
nah, the guards kicked 'm out because this is a: LCDs and porn (Score:0, Troll)
It's SPAM which makes EMAIL unreliable for me.
If I had a message from a trusted source only, and I would see my email indicator flashing, I would read my email as soon as I have the time, which is less intrusive than any IM existing currently.
Since there is a lot of SPAM out there, I cannot rely on that indicator anymore, which means I only check my mail every 2 to 5 hours; because every 10 minutes I have at least 2 to 10 spam messages waiting.
I still sortof swear with my Archos ; using it now for over a year, every week I record my mixing session(s) on it and it works perfectly. Sometimes I can rip a part of my mixes and works great.
.wav because of the encoder ; but isn't the CPU fast enough to use your own "encoder" for example in Rockbox? I am using Rockbox, only having 1 prob when recording long files in VBR they seem not to be able to be opened in Cooledit or Winamp.
There are currently not a lot of players on the market and easy to buy in Europe. Bought the FMR20 for 310euro and my soulmate bought one 2 months later a JBR20 for 299euro. They both work like a charm.
One had some probs in the beginning; I needed to revive it before it could be turned on. After a week it didn't show up the problems anymore and since then it works perfectly.
-slightly offtopic-
Now, What I like more, next to the 20gb (that will be extended to 60gb soon) is that it would record Wav. Which is also not possible with this device?
I also wonder why the Archos cannot record in CBR mode instead of VBR; It can't record to
Clinton was being tore apart, even internationally, because he had sex with an intern. He lied about it and "deeply regrets that" (we all know the speech I guess)
Although, Bush killed dozens of people by a lie, not even getting a slap on the wrist. People believe in him as their leader who can justify anything.
So what's the difference between a blowjob and a war? The blowjob didn't kill people, the war killed dozens of people and will probably kill more dozens of people...
Do I call this naivity ?
Although their website is completely unreachable ...
.. ./ a poor European link ... which of still reminds me; why is bandwidth much cheaper in the US than the EU?
What have you done America
Guess I can check out the shop in about 96hrs right ?
it's being bloated, will use more spinash and will be a case with Boulimia nervosa right ?
I have it here, it runs a FTP and samba server; has some bugs but if the opensource community opens the image/firmware so we can fix everything ourselves; it's one of the better drives you can get.
It's completely in Aluminium, the interface currently best works under IE, since the drive crashes when using under Netscape.
The newest firmware supports multiple users with multiple priveleges.
PDF is also available here.
oops... I take my words back ...
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The article seems to be fully loaded on the background now and yet it contains a review
so, come on, what's the deal?
* Posted by CmdrTaco
* by VL, viperlair, the company selling these PSU's
NEWS for Nerds or STUFF for Nerds? If I need stuff for nerds I go to my local PC supplier or I go to thinkgeek but this is a lil bit over the top not ?
Not to mention that I have a lot of CD's I buy in bulk from DJ's and second hand ; I mean with this that I buy 2 to 5 *NEW* cd's a month, fresh CD's.
Me and my friend have bought the same laptop about 1 1/2 year ago, the Compaq EVO n1000v. They where both bought in Belgium.
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... I was wishing they had a replacement program like APC does with their UPS's, they send you another UPS and you can pack and send yours back afterwards; minimal downtime.
Both laptops just "shutdown", they get very slow and power goes out without any warning, black screen and you can restart ; bye data/document you where working on at that moment.
Most of the times my friend gets it when he is working in Word, which is a real annoying situation (learned him to save often though
I tested and seems to be my 2 memory modules, both Compaq, have been tested bad. I wonder if he has the same test results as I have...
The bad thing about this situation is that I have to send back my memory, making it unable for me to work on my laptop for a max of 3 days
I have made a post about this matter on my personal site ; since it's something I am quite annoyed of... It's updated to a full article/rant.
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... for the ones that care ; I started to care a lot since I have lost my cd-rom drive on a very mysterious way
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My soulmate wanted to rip the CD to put on his Archos Jukebox, since he is not using CD's anymore but still buys them to be legal and to have the full version.
Since I have put in the CD I can't run my company invoice system anymore, can't do anything at all with that cdrom drive, can't even play a game. Every time I put in the CD it cannot be recognized by my system.
I already tried to uninstall the software but the problem stays, which forces me to reinstall the PC completely (which I definitely don't have the time for now at the moment and will cost me days to get my invoicing and updates done).
Is this legal ? Can this be allowed ? I am literally loosing money now just because I wanted to rip that legal and bought cd for him straight to his Archos. It's not even music I like to listen to... (no offense intended to all fans around here)
Apparantly it is legal folks
CD's that demolish your PC ready to reinstall!...
I am really starting to get even more annoyed since I do not know which CD's I can even TRUST anymore without the need to re-install my PC? To stay on topic ; A lot of data is on backup but also a lot of data (my vinyl and protected CD's ripped to WAV format) will be lost after this re-install.
These copyprotections are taking more time than I have; to be even more specific, certain CD's like Solid Sounds I need to rip manually to be able to USE this CD in my older car cd player and pro Denon DJ CD player!!! Since I am DJ and using vinyl and CD's a lot I find this unacceptable. Put in this pro-DJ player and you got to wait up to 6 minutes before the CD *might* get read; which is too long for a clubDJ to mix to the next song; unless I have a 8-10 minute song running from vinyl...
Is this copyprotection a convenience only for the record company or should the audio CD be a convenience for the listener? Where's the time you put in the CD in your favorite cd player you like to listen to the music you like ? The time of putting your cd in your car cdplayer, cd-rom drive or professional CD player is over and it's only getting worse, looking to this example of the latest CD I tried to rip for my friend.
And this is not even the end, my soulmate has bought 2 other CD's, which one of them is the new Faithless CD (the other one I can't remember because we have a different taste (and yet the same) of music) and he can't rip it to use on his MP3 player *and* he can't use it on his home CD player (unreadable disks).
I used to buy 2 to 5 cd's a month, since I am not sure anymore which cd's work or not I started buying more vinyl again, but hell, I do not want to buy ANY releases of the same producers that cripple the audio CD's I have bought for 20 EURO or more!
The recording industry has lost at least 600 EURO last year only because I do not want to buy or use cd's anymore.. what's the use to buy a cd if I can't use it?
I have built up a nice record collection of +30000 vinyl records and +2000 cd's. Probably the collection of my cd's will not be updated anymore as I protest to this kind of behavior towards the consumer. I currently have about 62 cd's of the last 2 years that I cannot use at all unless I rip it and copy it. This is about 1200 EURO/$ I have lost because I cannot use them as DJ.
This will conclude the recording industry will not get MY money of minimally 720 EURO/$ per year anymore, which I will spend on independent vinyl recording companies which are not related to the ones that cripple MY cd's I have bought with my well-deserved money which I pay my taxes on.
For so far my rant
The full comment what happened to my pc is available here and I am still not happy with it ....
I wonder why I deserved my CD-ROM drive not to be working anymore because I have tried to copy my friends legal-bought CD to the Archos of him.
I can't read anything anymore through the CD-ROM drive, no data and no audio cd's, nothing works since I have inserted the new Beasty Boys CD.
I am really starting to get annoyed since this means a complete re-install of that PC which I do not have the time (or money) for. A lot of data is on backup but also a lot of data (my vinyl and protected CD's ripped to WAV format) will be lost after this re-install.
These copyprotections are taking more time than I have; to be even more specific, certain CD's like Solid Sounds I need to rip manually to be able to USE this CD in my older car cd player and pro Denon DJ CD player!!! Since I am DJ and using vinyl and CD's a lot I find this unacceptable.
Is this copyprotection a convenience only for the record company or should the audio CD be a convenience for the listener? Where's the time you put in the CD in your favorite cd player you like to listen to the music you like ? The time of putting your cd in your car cdplayer, cd-rom drive or professional CD player is over and it's only getting worse, looking to this example of the latest CD I tried to rip for my friend.
I used to buy 2 to 5 cd's a month, since I am not sure anymore which cd's work or not I started buying more vinyl again, but hell, I do not want to buy ANY releases of the same producers that cripple the audio CD's I have bought for 20 EURO or more!
The recording industry has lost at least 600 EURO last year only because I do not want to buy or use cd's anymore.. what's the use to buy a cd if I can't use it?
I have built up a nice record collection of +30000 vinyl records and +2000 cd's. Probably the collection of my cd's will not be updated anymore as protest to this kind of behavior towards the consumer. I currently have about 62 cd's of the last 2 years that I cannot use at all unless I rip it and copy it. This is about 1200 EURO/$ I have lost because I cannot use them as DJ.
This will conclude the recording industry will not get MY money of minimally 720 EURO/$ per year anymore, which I will spend on independent vinyl recording companies which are not related to the ones that cripple MY cd's I have bought with my well-deserved money.
I tried to uninstall that driver, tried to uninstall it through system settings, disabled it, tried to reboot, removed the program physically by deleting it, tried to remove the cd-rom drive through system settings, reinstalled the cd-rom drive ...
It still does not recognize the cd's - very weird but it happened when I "installed" that CD...
I wonder why I deserved my CD-ROM drive not to be working anymore because I have tried to copy my friends legal-bought CD to the Archos of him.
I can't read anything anymore through the CD-ROM drive, no data and no audio cd's, nothing works since I have inserted the new Beasty Boys CD.
I am really starting to get annoyed since this means a complete re-install of that PC which I do not have the time (or money) for. A lot of data is on backup but also a lot of data (my vinyl and protected CD's ripped to WAV format) will be lost after this re-install.
These copyprotections are taking more time than I have; to be even more specific, certain CD's like Solid Sounds I need to rip manually to be able to USE this CD in my older car cd player and pro Denon DJ CD player!!! Since I am DJ and using vinyl and CD's a lot I find this unacceptable.
Is this copyprotection a convenience only for the record company or should the audio CD be a convenience for the listener? Where's the time you put in the CD in your favorite cd player you like to listen to the music you like ? The time of putting your cd in your car cdplayer, cd-rom drive or professional CD player is over and it's only getting worse, looking to this example of the latest CD I tried to rip for my friend.
I used to buy 2 to 5 cd's a month, since I am not sure anymore which cd's work or not I started buying more vinyl again, but hell, I do not want to buy ANY releases of the same producers that cripple the audio CD's I have bought for 20 EURO or more!
The recording industry has lost at least 600 EURO last year only because I do not want to buy or use cd's anymore.. what's the use to buy a cd if I can't use it?
I have built up a nice record collection of +30000 vinyl records and +2000 cd's. Probably the collection of my cd's will not be updated anymore as protest to this kind of behavior towards the consumer. I currently have about 62 cd's of the last 2 years that I cannot use at all unless I rip it and copy it. This is about 1200 EURO/$ I have lost because I cannot use them as DJ.
This will conclude the recording industry will not get MY money of minimally 720 EURO/$ per year anymore, which I will spend on independent vinyl recording companies which are not related to the ones that cripple MY cd's I have bought with my well-deserved money.
Since I did it myself I know for sure nothing more happened. I rip a lot of cd's of myself to my own archos so I can use it whenever I am travelling.
Never had this problem before, only one time had the problem a Solid Sounds CD did not want to leave the CD-ROM drive because it was copyprotected but a paperclip does the trick
Although this problem really annoys the hell out of me because I am now unable to use MY pc for what it's being used for daily.