The problem of tracking a user is when he/she enters personal info and it gets indexed. You don't do that with ads, do you?
No, but some forms might still use the GET method instead of POST. In that case, your form submission becomes part of the URL, and is visible to any ad included in the landing page via the Referer header.
I'm still unclear as to what you mean by "share with other apps". If you mean allow other apps to use the sound bus at the same time
Yes, that's what I mean
- ALSA will allow that, subject to it's "release" settings.
Great!... but where do I set this?
And shows you which settings you are currently using... re: my question "What sound system are you using"
Yes, it is indeed Alsa. However, none of the other choices (PulseAudio, Esound) work, unfortunately.
Note: Testing/Unstable = Cutting/Bleeding Edge.
As far as distributions go, I'm very conservative. I've got 9.04 now (although betas of 10.04 are out now). In 8.04, I opted for KDE 3 (back then, there was still choice between KDE3 and KDE4). I skipped 8.10 (the first one which made KDE 4 mandatory...) after seeing what a catastrophe it was after briefly testing it on my laptop. Then I went straight to 9.04 more than half a hear after it was released.
I should also point out that the major difference between free OSs and commercial OSs is with the free ones - the testing is done by the users.
Yes, but until KDE4 was released, this still worked pretty well. But after KDE4, all we have is a huge mess, where KDE developers are claiming "but we did warn the distros that it is not production grade software", but distributions are claiming "but we had no choice, they dropped support for 3". And the users are caught in the middle.
No. you can still do that. However you (still) need to save the changes. If you save the (modified) playlist with the same name (in the same location) - then you will have edited an existing list
When I try to do it here, it creates a new list with a new name (the current date and time).
No I'm truly lost... From left to right on the default Amarok menubar: Amarok, View, Playlist, Tools, Setting, Help.(letter in bold is the hotkey)
I only have Amarok, Playlist, Tools, Settings, Help. No View:-(
No offense (I'm happy to help) but the Kubuntu forums are a better place for your questions.
Tried that already. Most of the time I get "this is the wrong place for reporting 'pet peeve' type bugs. We have no choice, they dropped support for KDE 3 upstream, so we had to go along and have no choice in this"
Menu bar -> Configure Amarok -> Playback -> right-hand pane under Sound System Configuration -> hit the Config button - when you're done hit "Apply".
I don't have Configure Amarok as a top-level menu bar item. There is however a Configure Amarok under Settings, and from there I do indeed find Playback->Sound System Configuration->Config. But once I am there, how do exactly I enable sharing with other apps?
Start Menu -> System (or Settings(?) - working from memory as my KDE4.3 machine is at home) -> Settings -> System Settings -> from the left-hand pane -> Computer Administration -> Multimedia
After changing the playlist by adding a song it becomes a "new" playlist. By saving it (sic) you save the changes (as the same playlist). Did you save it??
A new list. Indeed. So there is indeed no way to edit an existing list (which was still possible with the old version, where you could drag songs directly to a saved list).
From the menu bar -> View -> unselect "Lock layout". Top of the left-hand pane - double-click on the Home icon - double-click on Playlists - make your choice (dynamic, saved etc). From the menu bar -> View -> select "Lock layout".
Unfortunately, I don't have a "view" item in my menu bar (neither at its root, nor elsewhere)
Well, what it comes down to is they can only sell whole seats. Your 6 year old might only need half a seat, but that still means he's taking up the whole seat - they can't sell the other half seat to someone else. A fat guy might prefer to buy 1.5 seats, but that isn't an option: he has to buy 2 seats, and that second seat is being taken away from another paying customer.
Why can't they seat kids next to the fat passenger, and have kid pay half price, and fatty one and a half?
Or have Fat passenger + empty seat + another fat passenger. Each of them would only pay one and a half seat (effectively sharing the price of the empty seat between them).
So you can sell half seats if you're creative (... and if passengers are not too picky about placement. Obviously if everybody wants a window seat, it won't work)
The difference is that now you are dealing with encrypted traffic that you can't even use to prosecute this person. He can simply access that page without you, the law enforcement agency, having any chance to actually catch him doing it.
The far right might just make all encrypted traffic illegal
If you slip up just once and go to a dodgy site directly rather than via tor, your IP will show up in the site's log, and police will haul off your computer if ever they get a hand on the server logs. And then they'll find loads of evidence of your other (encrypted) traffic as well.
If the tor exit node (or other proxy) that you happen to use isn't actually in a country where kiddie porn is legal, you just got some unsuspecting chap into serious trouble
/me waits for a DCMA takedown notice to fly from Redmond to Slashdot's headquarter:D
Too late. Already copy-pasted to a local file on my hard disk, and ready to appear on my website once it goes down from Slashdot. Website hosted outside of the US of course.
And probably hundreds of other Slashdotters living in the free world have done exactly the same.
Different? Let's call it what it is: buggy. A music player for which you can't edit play lists once defined. A terminal emulator which opens in new and creatively different sizes each time you invoke it. Same terminal emulator which likes to append random number of spaces to copy-pasted lines. WTF?
It's just fucking horrible, up to and including 4.3
Well, you have to admit, even though KDE 4.3 still sucks (Amarok, Konsole,...), it no longer sucks quite as badly as KDE 4.0. So there is some improvement. However, I dread the day when they'll release 5.0. Hopefully, that day, the distros will be smarter, and wait for at least 5.5...
... except that they went out of their way to tell everyone that 4.0 was alpha state code.
All the distros did the same thing.
all the distros... except Kubuntu and Fedora. And they "justified" their choice by KDE's decision to no longer support KDE3.
Folks, it's not enough to call the new version early alpha, you also have to keep supporting the old version for a while, or else some distributions will jump on the "early alpha" anyways.
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The problem of tracking a user is when he/she enters personal info and it gets indexed. You don't do that with ads, do you?
No, but some forms might still use the GET method instead of POST. In that case, your form submission becomes part of the URL, and is visible to any ad included in the landing page via the Referer header.
Plus any other number of possible subtle leaks.
Using the sound configuration make sure Amarok and the other apps are using ALSA.
Well, according to ~/.mplayer/config, my mplayer already uses alsa. Yet, mplayer won't play any audio while amarok is running (even if stopped).
Are they (sic) installed? (dpkg --get-selections | grep thing_you_want_to_know_is_installed)
I've got alsa, esound, phonon, but not pulseaudio as far as I can see.
Gentle correction - *you* might be conservative, your choice of distribution, however, is not.
Before the KDE4 SNAFU, I was quite satisfied with Kubuntu. Much more satisfied than with SuSE, which I used before.
I'm still unclear as to what you mean by "share with other apps". If you mean allow other apps to use the sound bus at the same time
Yes, that's what I mean
- ALSA will allow that, subject to it's "release" settings.
Great!... but where do I set this?
And shows you which settings you are currently using... re: my question "What sound system are you using"
Yes, it is indeed Alsa. However, none of the other choices (PulseAudio, Esound) work, unfortunately.
Note: Testing/Unstable = Cutting/Bleeding Edge.
As far as distributions go, I'm very conservative. I've got 9.04 now (although betas of 10.04 are out now). In 8.04, I opted for KDE 3 (back then, there was still choice between KDE3 and KDE4). I skipped 8.10 (the first one which made KDE 4 mandatory...) after seeing what a catastrophe it was after briefly testing it on my laptop. Then I went straight to 9.04 more than half a hear after it was released.
I should also point out that the major difference between free OSs and commercial OSs is with the free ones - the testing is done by the users.
Yes, but until KDE4 was released, this still worked pretty well. But after KDE4, all we have is a huge mess, where KDE developers are claiming "but we did warn the distros that it is not production grade software", but distributions are claiming "but we had no choice, they dropped support for 3". And the users are caught in the middle.
No. you can still do that. However you (still) need to save the changes. If you save the (modified) playlist with the same name (in the same location) - then you will have edited an existing list
When I try to do it here, it creates a new list with a new name (the current date and time).
No I'm truly lost... From left to right on the default Amarok menubar: Amarok, View, Playlist, Tools, Setting, Help.(letter in bold is the hotkey)
I only have Amarok, Playlist, Tools, Settings, Help. No View :-(
No offense (I'm happy to help) but the Kubuntu forums are a better place for your questions.
Tried that already. Most of the time I get "this is the wrong place for reporting 'pet peeve' type bugs. We have no choice, they dropped support for KDE 3 upstream, so we had to go along and have no choice in this"
Menu bar -> Configure Amarok -> Playback -> right-hand pane under Sound System Configuration -> hit the Config button - when you're done hit "Apply".
I don't have Configure Amarok as a top-level menu bar item. There is however a Configure Amarok under Settings, and from there I do indeed find Playback->Sound System Configuration->Config. But once I am there, how do exactly I enable sharing with other apps?
Start Menu -> System (or Settings(?) - working from memory as my KDE4.3 machine is at home) -> Settings -> System Settings -> from the left-hand pane -> Computer Administration -> Multimedia
Yes, that brings me to the same page as above.
After changing the playlist by adding a song it becomes a "new" playlist. By saving it (sic) you save the changes (as the same playlist). Did you save it??
A new list. Indeed. So there is indeed no way to edit an existing list (which was still possible with the old version, where you could drag songs directly to a saved list).
From the menu bar -> View -> unselect "Lock layout". Top of the left-hand pane - double-click on the Home icon - double-click on Playlists - make your choice (dynamic, saved etc). From the menu bar -> View -> select "Lock layout".
Unfortunately, I don't have a "view" item in my menu bar (neither at its root, nor elsewhere)
Well, what it comes down to is they can only sell whole seats. Your 6 year old might only need half a seat, but that still means he's taking up the whole seat - they can't sell the other half seat to someone else. A fat guy might prefer to buy 1.5 seats, but that isn't an option: he has to buy 2 seats, and that second seat is being taken away from another paying customer.
Why can't they seat kids next to the fat passenger, and have kid pay half price, and fatty one and a half?
Or have Fat passenger + empty seat + another fat passenger. Each of them would only pay one and a half seat (effectively sharing the price of the empty seat between them).
So you can sell half seats if you're creative (... and if passengers are not too picky about placement. Obviously if everybody wants a window seat, it won't work)
At this point, the person who cannot remain in their seat will either be assigned a new one or forced to deplane.
Do planes usually carry XL-sized parachutes?
...and twice the gas as a normal person.
Why doesn't the galley serve bean-free dishes for these cases?
There's at least three ways. Try dragging the song from the left-hand panel to the playlist in the right-hand panel...
Last time I tried that, the change was lost after playing a different list...
How can I prevent amarok from hiding my playlists near the bottom whenever I start it up?
Do you mean down the bottom of the left-hand side?
Yes, indeed, that's what I mean.
What distro are you using?
Kubuntu
And is there a way to enable it to share the audio device with other apps (mplayer, firefox, ...).
I don't understand why you'd want to use Amarok to share the audio device... What "audio device" - the sound card?? Your mp3 player??
Yes, the soundard. Or my USB speakers
What sound system are you using - ALSA, JACK, OSS??
Alsa, I think... (hard to doublecheck though, as I didn't found the place where this is set in GUI)
The difference is that now you are dealing with encrypted traffic that you can't even use to prosecute this person. He can simply access that page without you, the law enforcement agency, having any chance to actually catch him doing it.
I think that the government is afraid of losing votes on the far right so they are pushing some sort of a security agenda.
You mean, this isn't already a far right government?
Pssht!, or else the Yanks will point out that child pornography consumers pay their warez with SWIFT bank transfers...
She could use him to perfect her dwarf tossing skills...
I thought Sarkoszy was essentially a dictator when it comes to all things MAFIAA.
Not only when it comes to MAFIAA. He wants to be a dictator in all areas of life.
There shall be no censorship.
Wouldn't the new European Constitution (Lissabon treaty) overrule the German Constitution here?
In the same spot, the European Constitution has "Intellectual Property is protected" instead.
Yeah, I tried to convince her to switch to OO, but according to her, it's incompatible with her employer (big publisher) and she must use MS Office.
Enjoy this great excuse to stop working from home!
/me waits for a DCMA takedown notice to fly from Redmond to Slashdot's headquarter :D
Too late. Already copy-pasted to a local file on my hard disk, and ready to appear on my website once it goes down from Slashdot. Website hosted outside of the US of course.
And probably hundreds of other Slashdotters living in the free world have done exactly the same.
Easy solution: Install Kubuntu on the freshly repaired computer.
How can I prevent amarok from hiding my playlists near the bottom whenever I start it up?
And is there a way to enable it to share the audio device with other apps (mplayer, firefox, ...).
While things are different
Different? Let's call it what it is: buggy. A music player for which you can't edit play lists once defined. A terminal emulator which opens in new and creatively different sizes each time you invoke it. Same terminal emulator which likes to append random number of spaces to copy-pasted lines. WTF?
It's just fucking horrible, up to and including 4.3
Well, you have to admit, even though KDE 4.3 still sucks (Amarok, Konsole, ...), it no longer sucks quite as badly as KDE 4.0. So there is some improvement. However, I dread the day when they'll release 5.0. Hopefully, that day, the distros will be smarter, and wait for at least 5.5...
... except that they went out of their way to tell everyone that 4.0 was alpha state code.
All the distros did the same thing.
all the distros... except Kubuntu and Fedora. And they "justified" their choice by KDE's decision to no longer support KDE3.
Folks, it's not enough to call the new version early alpha, you also have to keep supporting the old version for a while, or else some distributions will jump on the "early alpha" anyways.
(Note; summary will probably be corrected by the time most people see this)
Doesn't look like it. I guess people will first need to see the moon before the Slashteam corrects the summary...
Such an egregious spelling mistake, and nobody yet has snatched up the name and directed it to goatse.fr? Come on guys, you can do better than that!