Sounds like a microserf. WMP 10 isn't that great. It doesn't do ogg (vorbis or theora) which actually quite a few people DO use. It also doesn't handle FLAC or shorten - two high quality lossless audio compression techniques. Add the worst x-vid playback I've ever seen and the inevitable (it is a microsoft product, after all) security exploits and, well, M$ has done it again.
I'll stick with Xine, plays everything from raw video to SIDS (remember the commodore 64?) sound files, mik-mod, DVD, etc.
Let's see, a hydrogen powered engine produdes pure, drinkable water as it's only emission while a person riding a bike (and breathing hard due to the exertion) produces carbon dioxide, actually the hydrogen car would be cleaner.
Tommy
I (unfortunately) work at an Office Max, and we have some customers who habitually try to abuse the system. We have one person who buys a printer, then wants to return it just before the end of the return period. After, of course, using up ALL the ink. Needless to say we no longer accept returns from him. Another went through 5 Palm Pilots, in about 10 days. I'm not sure what she did to break them, but these are the only five allegedly "defective" Palms we had all year. It's hard to believe it was just bad luck. When she returned the fifth one we told her that we wouldn't take any more Palms back from her, she'd have to go through the manufacturer warranty if she bought another Palm from us and had problems.
Then of course there's the "vultures" who come in every Sunday (arriving about an hour before we open and banging and kicking the doors because we won't open early for them) and get everything that's "free after rebate". They'll get things like Hard Drives but don't even own a computer, they just plan to sell them. Thank God we stopped doing "free" stuff.
On the other hand, we are FORCED to try to sell protection plans (and lose hours if we don't sell enough) and pester people to buy extra stuff. It's one thing to offer a USB cable when they buy a 3-in-1, but we're supposed to do it if they just buy ink or paper also. That radio in our ear is "reminding" us all the things that could possibly be associated with whatever your buying. At my store, at least, we make some attempt to have only one sales droid pester any given customer, instead of all of us one after the other.
BTW, the best way to keep the sales droids away is to hold a cell phone to your ear and pretend to be having a conversation. It's far from guaranteed, but it will help. And mail in rebates are, IMO, just a way for the store to make interest off your money. That's why they take 3 to 4 months to send the check. Wait untill the specified product is sold out and you may get (if it's a manufacturer rebate, not a store rebate) the substitute item at the "after rebate" price at the register. I picked up a DVD +-RW for $60 cash that way (list was $199).
There are three main alternatives to IE. One is Opera, an extremely fast browser. Unfortunately, the free version is ad supported. It will cost you about $40 US to make the ads go away.
The other two are Mozilla and Firefox, both available for free at www.mozilla.org. Mozilla is a "suite" of applications including browser, E-mail, chat, newsgroups, HTML editor, and is kind of the swiss army knife of the internet. Firefox is a slighly stripped down (fully functional, but faster) version of the browser.
Both Mozilla and Firefox have built in Pop-up blocking and plugins are available for flash, shockwave (windows only), Java, etc. Both feature tabbed browsing (once you use it you'll wonder how you managed without it) and there are dozens of extentions (like mouse gestures, etc) available. Both suppeort CSS stylesheets, PHP, etc.
As far as developement goes, simply follow the w3c (World Wide Web Consortium) standards. W3c offers HTML validation services (free) at http://validator.w3.org - shame on you if you aren't already using this (or something similar)
Validated HTML compliant web pages will function correctly in ANY standards compliant browser, on any platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, Palm, Unix, Cellphones, webTV, cellphones, etc).
Unless you've been using IE-only extentsions like Active X (don't use it, it only works on windows PC's) you shouldn't have to do anything differently when developing for the web, or intranet. I do most of my sytem administration for my PC using a web interface (Webmin) on Mozilla.
The 87% figure was specific to Ft. Carson at the time (it's in Colorado Springs, Dad Driving Capitol of the World) and most of those accidents were partly the cars fault too. The fourteen is what I remember, vaguely, meant to make my point, not be definitive.
As an MP (and later a cab driver) I drove a lot (ussually 8 to 12 hours/day) for ten years, in US, Korea, and Germany. I agree on a lot of points but think the fines are excessive for first offenses. Flat out opposed to random stops, Police abuse their autority enough as it is, I should know.
Variable speed laws are a Bad Idea, as many accidents are caused by difference in speed as are by difference of direction, and Some people will always "fudge" the clock, same as they "fudge" red lights.
Most states aslready have a "two hands on the wheel", it's just not enforced. Neither is the "slower traffic keep right" law.
All for the vehicle inspections. I've known people who drove for months with broken power steering or only emergency brakes.
And yes, it's far to easy to get a liscense in this country.
I don't know if pest patrol ever actually removed C-Dilla, but they DID have intructions to manually remove it. I can't claim C=Dilla is spyware, but it certainly did bork my box.
Macrovision is the same company that brought you C-Dilla, a "liscence manager". C-Dilla IS considered a virus by Norton (and several other AVs). It does several nasty things to Windows, such as deleteing ALL system restore points proir to installation. I had a run in with C-Dilla when I bought 3d Studio Max (Auto desk, makers of auto-cad and 3ds Max installs C-dilla when you try to install their software, and Max won't install without it. After attempting to install Max, I found I could no longer access or burn CD's, or connect to the internet. Auto Desk tech support refused to help, referring me to Macrovision, who refused to return my support requests (after spending over ten hours to find a way to contact them, there website at the time offered no way to contact them. I had to resort to snail mail, which was ingnored.) Fortunately, Pest Patrol's website had manual removal instructions for C-Dilla (IIRC over 50 files and registry entries had to be removed).
Max never did work, and I never did get a refund or even an apology.
No macrovision malware will ever get near my PC again. Neither will any Auto desk product. Looks like EMI CD's are on the sh%& list now, also. Too bad, I like the Beasties, but don't steal music so I'll never know if this album's as good as the others.
I could live with a band using DRM (I'm a musician and have some sympathy) but after reading the outright lies in their statement, I'll never buy another Beastie disc (or anything else EMI) again
I work in an office supply (national chain) store, and we are forced to kind of pester people. We do make some attempt to avoid having every sales droid hit a customer, but it happens. I've even hit up the same person more than once (you all look alike to me after a couple hours on the floor). I'm not proud to be a sales droid, but since my real job got outsourced and my rent payments didn't...
The best way to get the droids to leave you alone is to hold a cell phone up to your ear and pretend to be talking to someone. Simple and effective. Since modern cells are so small, you could probably even just pretend to hold a cell phone to your ear if you cup your hand right!
Actually, the Martian environment has everything needed to make rocket fuel. Nasa already has a plan that sends a robotic fuel factory to Mars so when people get sent later they'll have all the fuel they need to return to earth. It would take less fuel to return, since mars has a lower escape velocity and a solar "parachute" could be used to lower the orbital velocity (in reference to the sun) and reduce the orbital distance (from the sun) to match the earths orbit.
Remember back when Sattelite TV (Primeco, Direct TV, etc) weren't allowed to carry network TV because it was "unfair" to cable providers? Eventually the FCC decided sattelite TV providers could offer what ever they darn well pleased. I hope they make the same choice here, it's really the same issue, just for Radio instead of TV
At many libraries you can download files but most don't have CD burners.
If a LUG were to set up a Kiosk, it should probably have some sort of "Kiosk" software. In other words, it would have a GUI that won't close and only lets you do certain things (ie burn CDs of "allowed" files. Heck, you can even do this on a Window$ box.
ISO files are generic, in other words, a Linux (or Window$) box can burn an ISO for a Mac, etc. I first got Linux by downloading ISOs under Window$.
This is a fantastic idea!
The only problem is "selling" free software. I work at an office supply store (big chain) and I see people looking at M$ Office and cringing at the $399 (US) price. They ask if Word 2003 is available by itself. I ask them if they would like to be able to use and create Word documents without spending hundreds of dollers. They say yes and smile. They ask "How much does it cost?"
I say "it's free!"
They say "Nevermind."
If I slid them a disc and said it was a "bootleg copy of Open Office" they would hug me.
They used the Flourinert from 3M (link in another post). Drives are NOT submersed, only the Mobo, CPU and cards. Since it's the CPU, GPU, chipset and memory that really need the extra cooling when overclocking anyway that's fine. The liquid Tech TV used cost over $900 US per gallon, so Saphire is just a cheaper version of the same basic thing. It's chemically inert (won't cause corrosion), non conductive (won't cause short circuits), and non toxic (fish can live in it if you add a standard aquarium air pump). Overclockers.com also has articles on submersion cooling. I'm glad to see this, the only thing that stopped me from building an E-quarium (complete with fake swimming fish (no fish poop on my Mobo, thank you!)) was the price, since I calculated it would take three gallons to fill a recirculating system.
Isn't the NT kernel based on BeOS? M$ has ALWAYS (remember M$ started by selling a DOS kernel they got from someone else) taken someone elses good idea and co-opted it. Why wouldn't Linux be next? They already sell a Unix based server package.
I've got lots of Linux software that installed as easily as Windows software. URPMI, aptget, and some items that came with a slick install script that configured, made (compiled) and installed the software with no extra input from me.
However, I prefer the old./configure, make, make install method because it optimizes the software for my system.
I have the Gimp installed on my dual boot Mandrake 10.0 / WinXP system, for both OS's. The Linux version I compiled myself runs 25% faster than the Windows version (from the "convenient" installer.
Uninstalling is simple. Use whatever package manager you use to install it, or make uninstall for self compiled software. It's not Linux's fault if you don't know how to use it, I've found much more help for Linux available online (and far more accurate help) than I ever got for Windows!
Apparently you don't run Gnome.
Click 1. Bearpaw (like the Windows Start button)
Click 2. System > Configuration > Gnome > Screen Resolution.
Select new resolution from menu and
Click 3. accept new resolution.
Pretty sure you can do something real similar in KDE.
Don't blame the OS because you didn't bother to RTFM (read the f@#$%^g manual)
BTW, how is going to the hardware manager (harddrake) to adjust hardware counterintuitive?
The problem isn't Linux, you're just stuck in a MS frame of mind.
While Mandrake 8.0 claimed not to support the Audigy it worked fine. Mandrake 9.2 and 10.0 have a Audigy module (only for the 2.4.x kernal i believe) that supports ALL inputs, and Midi, and even the gameport. The standard Emu module will work for playback and midi, not sure it supports all inputs. All three versions of Mandrake, and Redhat 9.something autodetected the Audigy, and even an older Aureal Vortex card (which DOESN'T work in WinXP).
AFAIK Linux does NOT support the ability to change soundfonts, and Creative itself does NOT support Linux much at all.
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Sounds like a microserf. WMP 10 isn't that great. It doesn't do ogg (vorbis or theora) which actually quite a few people DO use. It also doesn't handle FLAC or shorten - two high quality lossless audio compression techniques. Add the worst x-vid playback I've ever seen and the inevitable (it is a microsoft product, after all) security exploits and, well, M$ has done it again.
I'll stick with Xine, plays everything from raw video to SIDS (remember the commodore 64?) sound files, mik-mod, DVD, etc.
Let's see, a hydrogen powered engine produdes pure, drinkable water as it's only emission while a person riding a bike (and breathing hard due to the exertion) produces carbon dioxide, actually the hydrogen car would be cleaner. Tommy
I (unfortunately) work at an Office Max, and we have some customers who habitually try to abuse the system. We have one person who buys a printer, then wants to return it just before the end of the return period. After, of course, using up ALL the ink. Needless to say we no longer accept returns from him. Another went through 5 Palm Pilots, in about 10 days. I'm not sure what she did to break them, but these are the only five allegedly "defective" Palms we had all year. It's hard to believe it was just bad luck. When she returned the fifth one we told her that we wouldn't take any more Palms back from her, she'd have to go through the manufacturer warranty if she bought another Palm from us and had problems.
Then of course there's the "vultures" who come in every Sunday (arriving about an hour before we open and banging and kicking the doors because we won't open early for them) and get everything that's "free after rebate". They'll get things like Hard Drives but don't even own a computer, they just plan to sell them. Thank God we stopped doing "free" stuff.
On the other hand, we are FORCED to try to sell protection plans (and lose hours if we don't sell enough) and pester people to buy extra stuff. It's one thing to offer a USB cable when they buy a 3-in-1, but we're supposed to do it if they just buy ink or paper also. That radio in our ear is "reminding" us all the things that could possibly be associated with whatever your buying. At my store, at least, we make some attempt to have only one sales droid pester any given customer, instead of all of us one after the other.
BTW, the best way to keep the sales droids away is to hold a cell phone to your ear and pretend to be having a conversation. It's far from guaranteed, but it will help. And mail in rebates are, IMO, just a way for the store to make interest off your money. That's why they take 3 to 4 months to send the check. Wait untill the specified product is sold out and you may get (if it's a manufacturer rebate, not a store rebate) the substitute item at the "after rebate" price at the register. I picked up a DVD +-RW for $60 cash that way (list was $199).
There are three main alternatives to IE. One is Opera, an extremely fast browser. Unfortunately, the free version is ad supported. It will cost you about $40 US to make the ads go away.
The other two are Mozilla and Firefox, both available for free at www.mozilla.org. Mozilla is a "suite" of applications including browser, E-mail, chat, newsgroups, HTML editor, and is kind of the swiss army knife of the internet. Firefox is a slighly stripped down (fully functional, but faster) version of the browser.
Both Mozilla and Firefox have built in Pop-up blocking and plugins are available for flash, shockwave (windows only), Java, etc. Both feature tabbed browsing (once you use it you'll wonder how you managed without it) and there are dozens of extentions (like mouse gestures, etc) available. Both suppeort CSS stylesheets, PHP, etc.
As far as developement goes, simply follow the w3c (World Wide Web Consortium) standards. W3c offers HTML validation services (free) at http://validator.w3.org - shame on you if you aren't already using this (or something similar)
Validated HTML compliant web pages will function correctly in ANY standards compliant browser, on any platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, Palm, Unix, Cellphones, webTV, cellphones, etc).
Unless you've been using IE-only extentsions like Active X (don't use it, it only works on windows PC's) you shouldn't have to do anything differently when developing for the web, or intranet. I do most of my sytem administration for my PC using a web interface (Webmin) on Mozilla.
The 87% figure was specific to Ft. Carson at the time (it's in Colorado Springs, Dad Driving Capitol of the World) and most of those accidents were partly the cars fault too. The fourteen is what I remember, vaguely, meant to make my point, not be definitive.
As an MP (and later a cab driver) I drove a lot (ussually 8 to 12 hours/day) for ten years, in US, Korea, and Germany. I agree on a lot of points but think the fines are excessive for first offenses. Flat out opposed to random stops, Police abuse their autority enough as it is, I should know.
Variable speed laws are a Bad Idea, as many accidents are caused by difference in speed as are by difference of direction, and Some people will always "fudge" the clock, same as they "fudge" red lights.
Most states aslready have a "two hands on the wheel", it's just not enforced. Neither is the "slower traffic keep right" law.
All for the vehicle inspections. I've known people who drove for months with broken power steering or only emergency brakes.
And yes, it's far to easy to get a liscense in this country.
I don't know if pest patrol ever actually removed C-Dilla, but they DID have intructions to manually remove it. I can't claim C=Dilla is spyware, but it certainly did bork my box.
Macrovision is the same company that brought you C-Dilla, a "liscence manager". C-Dilla IS considered a virus by Norton (and several other AVs). It does several nasty things to Windows, such as deleteing ALL system restore points proir to installation. I had a run in with C-Dilla when I bought 3d Studio Max (Auto desk, makers of auto-cad and 3ds Max installs C-dilla when you try to install their software, and Max won't install without it.
After attempting to install Max, I found I could no longer access or burn CD's, or connect to the internet. Auto Desk tech support refused to help, referring me to Macrovision, who refused to return my support requests (after spending over ten hours to find a way to contact them, there website at the time offered no way to contact them. I had to resort to snail mail, which was ingnored.)
Fortunately, Pest Patrol's website had manual removal instructions for C-Dilla (IIRC over 50 files and registry entries had to be removed).
Max never did work, and I never did get a refund or even an apology.
No macrovision malware will ever get near my PC again. Neither will any Auto desk product. Looks like EMI CD's are on the sh%& list now, also. Too bad, I like the Beasties, but don't steal music so I'll never know if this album's as good as the others.
I could live with a band using DRM (I'm a musician and have some sympathy) but after reading the outright lies in their statement, I'll never buy another Beastie disc (or anything else EMI) again
When I was a Military Police we had a name for guys who rode like this. We called them STATISTICS.
As in "87% of all motorcycle fatalities are caused by reckless riding" or " So far this year we've scraped 14 motorcyclists off a bumper"
I work in an office supply (national chain) store, and we are forced to kind of pester people. We do make some attempt to avoid having every sales droid hit a customer, but it happens. I've even hit up the same person more than once (you all look alike to me after a couple hours on the floor). I'm not proud to be a sales droid, but since my real job got outsourced and my rent payments didn't...
The best way to get the droids to leave you alone is to hold a cell phone up to your ear and pretend to be talking to someone. Simple and effective. Since modern cells are so small, you could probably even just pretend to hold a cell phone to your ear if you cup your hand right!
Tommy
Actually, the Martian environment has everything needed to make rocket fuel. Nasa already has a plan that sends a robotic fuel factory to Mars so when people get sent later they'll have all the fuel they need to return to earth. It would take less fuel to return, since mars has a lower escape velocity and a solar "parachute" could be used to lower the orbital velocity (in reference to the sun) and reduce the orbital distance (from the sun) to match the earths orbit.
Remember back when Sattelite TV (Primeco, Direct TV, etc) weren't allowed to carry network TV because it was "unfair" to cable providers? Eventually the FCC decided sattelite TV providers could offer what ever they darn well pleased.
I hope they make the same choice here, it's really the same issue, just for Radio instead of TV
At many libraries you can download files but most don't have CD burners.
If a LUG were to set up a Kiosk, it should probably have some sort of "Kiosk" software. In other words, it would have a GUI that won't close and only lets you do certain things (ie burn CDs of "allowed" files. Heck, you can even do this on a Window$ box.
ISO files are generic, in other words, a Linux (or Window$) box can burn an ISO for a Mac, etc. I first got Linux by downloading ISOs under Window$.
This is a fantastic idea!
The only problem is "selling" free software. I work at an office supply store (big chain) and I see people looking at M$ Office and cringing at the $399 (US) price. They ask if Word 2003 is available by itself. I ask them if they would like to be able to use and create Word documents without spending hundreds of dollers. They say yes and smile. They ask "How much does it cost?"
I say "it's free!"
They say "Nevermind."
If I slid them a disc and said it was a "bootleg copy of Open Office" they would hug me.
To many people still equate Cost with Value.
Tommy
Open Source for Open Minds
They used the Flourinert from 3M (link in another post). Drives are NOT submersed, only the Mobo, CPU and cards. Since it's the CPU, GPU, chipset and memory that really need the extra cooling when overclocking anyway that's fine.
The liquid Tech TV used cost over $900 US per gallon, so Saphire is just a cheaper version of the same basic thing. It's chemically inert (won't cause corrosion), non conductive (won't cause short circuits), and non toxic (fish can live in it if you add a standard aquarium air pump). Overclockers.com also has articles on submersion cooling.
I'm glad to see this, the only thing that stopped me from building an E-quarium (complete with fake swimming fish (no fish poop on my Mobo, thank you!)) was the price, since I calculated it would take three gallons to fill a recirculating system.
Tommy
Or perhaps the Flash export in Open Office Impress?
Isn't the NT kernel based on BeOS? M$ has ALWAYS (remember M$ started by selling a DOS kernel they got from someone else) taken someone elses good idea and co-opted it. Why wouldn't Linux be next? They already sell a Unix based server package.
Laura Kidio, highly regarded by who? Bill Gates?
More likely they were offended by M$'s assumption that we're all pirates just waiting for the opportunity to steal.
I've got lots of Linux software that installed as easily as Windows software. URPMI, aptget, and some items that came with a slick install script that configured, made (compiled) and installed the software with no extra input from me.
./configure, make, make install method because it optimizes the software for my system.
However, I prefer the old
I have the Gimp installed on my dual boot Mandrake 10.0 / WinXP system, for both OS's. The Linux version I compiled myself runs 25% faster than the Windows version (from the "convenient" installer.
Uninstalling is simple. Use whatever package manager you use to install it, or make uninstall for self compiled software. It's not Linux's fault if you don't know how to use it, I've found much more help for Linux available online (and far more accurate help) than I ever got for Windows!
Apparently you don't run Gnome. Click 1. Bearpaw (like the Windows Start button) Click 2. System > Configuration > Gnome > Screen Resolution. Select new resolution from menu and Click 3. accept new resolution. Pretty sure you can do something real similar in KDE. Don't blame the OS because you didn't bother to RTFM (read the f@#$%^g manual) BTW, how is going to the hardware manager (harddrake) to adjust hardware counterintuitive? The problem isn't Linux, you're just stuck in a MS frame of mind.
While Mandrake 8.0 claimed not to support the Audigy it worked fine. Mandrake 9.2 and 10.0 have a Audigy module (only for the 2.4.x kernal i believe) that supports ALL inputs, and Midi, and even the gameport. The standard Emu module will work for playback and midi, not sure it supports all inputs.
All three versions of Mandrake, and Redhat 9.something autodetected the Audigy, and even an older Aureal Vortex card (which DOESN'T work in WinXP).
AFAIK Linux does NOT support the ability to change soundfonts, and Creative itself does NOT support Linux much at all.