I had a mammoth security bug in my 5.0 (I think) client. If you logged on, but then changed your mind and hit `cancel' when prompted for your password, the client wouldn't shut down---it would just take you step by step through the login process, asking you for your password each time until you finally got into your account. You'd have to accept a whole lot of errors along the way as well.
The fact is, I could access and still operate my account (access databases, send and receive mail) without my password. An admin spent an hour fixing the problem, after consulting Lotus (or was it IBM?) but the problem recurred a month later, and I couldn't interest anyone enough to fix it.
The problem was finally fixed by changing me to Domino Web Access 'iNotes.' Bye bye client, but now I've had to drag IE back out of the cupboard because Mozilla ain't allowed near it.
Okay, nobody's going to read this, because it was yesterday's story and it's been modded into oblivion.
But can somebody please explain to me how this is off-topic? Somebody posted something that wasn't, admittedly, perfectly on topic (but worth a `Flamebait' more than `Offtopic') and I replied to that exact post.
I could cope with being modded Flamebait. Having a read, it probably does qualify. I'd even be happy with a Troll. But I made a perfectly relevant, and thus ontopic, reply to a post.
I could go on, but there's no real point. Metamods, a bit of justice please?
Cripes, I've been a Christian for nearly twenty years now, and I have difficulty understanding that.
I especially have trouble believing that you know all those who died were apostates (and I'm not sure that word means what you think it means.) If you were in a position to know that, why didn't you prevent it from happening?
And the phrase 'won't you accept Jesus Christ into your heart today?' only has meaning to a person who's been hanging around Christian circles for a decade or two. I have, and I know. Most people you're trying to preach to don't, and therefore they don't.
So there you go---you've just reduced Jesus Christ to a cross between a cardiologist and a life insurance salesman.
Please, a little compassion would be in order, notwithstanding your assurance you do in fact love the recently departed. Compassion, that is, if your Jesus allows it.
Software manufacturer Microsoft today admitted to another vulnerability in its popular Windows operating system. If left unpatched, a computer may be vulnerable to attacks from big rocks falling from the sky. Dubbed the `Friday the Thirteenth' weakness, the flaw is present on all current versions of Windows.
However, Microsoft has played down reports that this bug may prove disastrous. "Whilst this may cause problems in some isolated instances, we are confident we will have a patch ready shortly," announced Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer." In the meantime, we strongly urge all users of our software to ensure their anti-virus and firewall software is properly configured. Most of all though, don't open unexpected attachments in email and certainly don't attempt to download planetoids from outer space."
Mr Ballmer is also reported to have said that if the Friday the Thirteenth scenario is proven unlikely to occur, developer resources would be redirected to finalising the new Windows Operating System, codenamed Longhorn. Longhorn is expected to be released before the arrival of the Friday the Thirteenth asteroid, due in 2029.
When asked about the security features of the new operating system, Mr Ballmer said, "Competitors have always regarded security as something of a necessity, built in from the ground up. Friday the Thirteenth proves that our `sky-down' approach is far more forward thinking than they may ever have imagined."
Yeah, don't worry about me---it was way too late for me to be reading/.!
Fussiness is good, and I think today's era of scores being proofread by midi instead of real musicians somewhat parallels the way that people think they can write because the grammar checker in Word passes whatever it is they wrote.
You got me thinking about the differences in tone in brass instruments (which is all I really know.) Even two instruments of the same make and model---even the same batch number---can be out of tune on any particular note, and the tones can also be quite different.
This isn't restricted to cheap instruments---I'm thinking in particular of two AUS$2000 cornets, which is top of the range amateur/okay for a pro sort of range. The nature of the brass instrument manufacturing process is such that no two instruments will sound the same over their whole range.
Even the same instrument will sound differently according to temperature and humidity. I played a concert a week or two ago and my instrument was a whole semitone flatter at the end than when I started.
A musician may use different mouthpieces on the same instrument, which will change the tone quite dramatically, especially in the top and bottom registers.
Add to that the fact that musicians have different tones according to a whole lot of variables, including their own natural acoustic properties, muscle strength, mouth shape and so on. Indeed, a brass musician takes a lot of pride in cultivating their own particular tone. A really obvious example is Louis Armstrong. I'm convinced the distinctive tone he had was more to do with the fact that he originally learnt to play a cornet, not a trumpet.
Having said all that, your point is well taken. For technical reasons (ie, the piece was too difficult in it's original key) I recently lowered the key of a piece I'd arranged by a second. Even though the musicians were able to play all the notes, it took on a completely different feel, and didn't seem right. It was incredibly harsh. After a few plays, though, it had softened up---I think most of the musicians were unconsciously changing the tuning to match what it was they were doing. This was a Brass Band, so everyone could do this. I guess it'd be a whole lot different in another setting where tuning can't be changed on the fly.
a trumpets G above the staff is slightly sharp, for instance.
Any trumpet player who is confident of playing this note in a public setting should be quite capable of allowing for these mistunings without even thinking about it.
If they can't, I don't think changing the key's going to help.
What do you suggest then? Hobbyists should hand over their code to a Big Company who will make sure that the market is more completely satisfied and that all users have what they want?
Rosegarden is GPL. If a Big Company wants to do the aforementioned, what's stopping them?
Go to http://alsa-project.org/ and have a look there. In Linux you don't normally get your driver directly from the manufacturer---it's better to get it from your distribution or from some central repository like this that can tell you how to install it for your system, and not some one driver fits all `system' like in Windows.
I wonder if http://www.agnula.org/ might be what you're looking for. This is actually two distros (one Debian based, the other Red Hat) specifically designed with music workstations in mind. The subsystem is configured from the ground up (low-latency kernels, jackd works out of the box, apparently, and so on).
The project was originally funded by the European Commission, and is still going since official funding ceased. It's got some work to do still, but I'm thinking about pulling it down and having a play. A dedicated music machine sounds like a lot of fun!
Looks like it ought to give Noteedit a run for its money.
You may not be aware, but Noteedit is no longer under development. Which is a real pity, because it was starting to become a really useful tool that had no pretensions to be anything but a notation editor.
I don't mind Rosegarden, but all I need is a notation editor, and a full blown midi environment (which is very pretty, by the way) is overkill. In actual fact, it confuses me a lot, which says more about me than the program!
Kudos to the devs though... I might even fire it up a bit during the holidays and have a play.
Yeah, I forgot about that. A lot of the music (what's this `top 40' of which you speak?) I listen to runs tracks on together, especially live recordings.
Then again, it does a crap job quickly, which from my experience suits it perfectly for p2p.
Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but this was his wife's computer. He's the sysadmin at a university. Unless his wife owns a university computer, it's not his fault!
That's right folks... there are women out there who use computers and call in the `experts' only when necessary.
Linux users can use Gramofile, which does this. Unfortunately you have to split the tracks up after the rip, but that's not such a problem.
I've found with Gramofile that I have to go through the whole sound file to check the splits are in the right place anyway (you can manually edit them if it got it wrong). It never really gets them completely right---it always needs another half a second or so to get the fade outs right, and it can have trouble with silent sections in songs. Most similar apps I've seen also have these limitations. Okay for quick and dirty, but it does get a bit annoying when you've got headphones on.
Whilst I understand that the Geneva Convention wasn't written with terrorists in mind, the fact is that terrorists exist and we will find ourselves in the position of having to deal with them after their capture.
I don't think it's right to use the holes in the Geneva Convention as an excuse for torture. My original post was a reply to someone who said that the US recognises human rights on the basis of a person's humanity, irrespective of their citizenship. That doesn't seem to apply in this case.
Now I'm not saying we should house them in the Hilton (it'd probably get bombed anyway...!) but I think the spirit of the Geneva Convention would suggest that torture probably isn't a great idea morally.
And yes, I understand that we're talking about immoral people. That's the problem with war. Our enemies are always immoral, but we afford them what the Geneva Convention says we must.
There's still the question of whether or not members of Al-Qaeda are lawful or unlawful combatants. The War on Terror is a strange War if there are no legal enemies.
Here in Australia (IANAL, BTW) these things are called 'Expiation Notices.' I a speeding ticket once, and the text went something like:
'You will soon be summonsed to appear in Court to hear the Prosecution present their case. You will be given the oportunity to present your defence... However, if you wish to dispose of this matter, please pay an amount of $$$ by...'
In other words, no decision about guilt would be made, and you just opted to take a lesser fine and perhaps a record made against your license. It reduces administrative paperwork, unclogs the court and police systems for real crime, and you get away without a conviction, lost wages or a bigger fine. It's so much easier, for me and the Courts.
In effect, it's an officially endorsed bribe---pay this, and we'll make it all go away!
You're mostly right. As far as I remember, you'll find a lot of stuff in there from previous edits. So if you've deleted something, it'll still be there. Some of the junk simply tells Word to ignore the (ir)relevant parts.
I'm not sure though---this may be a 'Fast Save' thing and not normal operation.
FOSS psychotics are the ones who are focussing on the bigger picture, and they believe a world without Microsoft is a theoretical possibility. It seems pretty narrow minded to assume that everything MS does should be considered a standard that everyone should blindly follow.
There may not be a conspiracy, but if a company holds a near monopoly on office software, there is a huge disincentive to open up the format.
The organisation I work for will never move to OOo because there's no guarantee that all MS Office files will transfer easily. We could go for a hybrid setup, but that's a lot more admin overhead. Having a few MS Office installations also means licensing headaches and so on. It's just easier to stay where we are, and not have any of the hassles associated with changing work tools.
So of course, MS wins, and competitors find entry into the market place difficult.
Besides, I like the guarantee that in fifty years' time I will be able to access the documents I write now. I can't even open documents I wrote 5 years ago (somebody else's copy of MS-Works) without having to buy a new copy of Works and an OS to run it on (I tried---it wouldn't work under WINE.)
Now I don't think that in the event of catastrophe (bankruptcy, Osama hits Seattle, etc) MS would withhold access to data formats. But it is possible, and not that many really worry about what the situation will be in a few decades.
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I had a mammoth security bug in my 5.0 (I think) client. If you logged on, but then changed your mind and hit `cancel' when prompted for your password, the client wouldn't shut down---it would just take you step by step through the login process, asking you for your password each time until you finally got into your account. You'd have to accept a whole lot of errors along the way as well.
The fact is, I could access and still operate my account (access databases, send and receive mail) without my password. An admin spent an hour fixing the problem, after consulting Lotus (or was it IBM?) but the problem recurred a month later, and I couldn't interest anyone enough to fix it.
The problem was finally fixed by changing me to Domino Web Access 'iNotes.' Bye bye client, but now I've had to drag IE back out of the cupboard because Mozilla ain't allowed near it.
The first ontopic post gets modded redundant.
/. get its moderators from?
Seriously now, where does
Oh wait...
Dame Edna's Australian.
Unless I missed some subtle irony.
So you use Debian stable too? When I first installed it, I nearly took it out to the batting cage for a good whuppin'.
Oh wait...
Are you suggesting we want illiterate and innumerate people running this system then?
Okay, nobody's going to read this, because it was yesterday's story and it's been modded into oblivion.
But can somebody please explain to me how this is off-topic? Somebody posted something that wasn't, admittedly, perfectly on topic (but worth a `Flamebait' more than `Offtopic') and I replied to that exact post.
I could cope with being modded Flamebait. Having a read, it probably does qualify. I'd even be happy with a Troll. But I made a perfectly relevant, and thus ontopic, reply to a post.
I could go on, but there's no real point. Metamods, a bit of justice please?
Cripes, I've been a Christian for nearly twenty years now, and I have difficulty understanding that.
I especially have trouble believing that you know all those who died were apostates (and I'm not sure that word means what you think it means.) If you were in a position to know that, why didn't you prevent it from happening?
And the phrase 'won't you accept Jesus Christ into your heart today?' only has meaning to a person who's been hanging around Christian circles for a decade or two. I have, and I know. Most people you're trying to preach to don't, and therefore they don't.
So there you go---you've just reduced Jesus Christ to a cross between a cardiologist and a life insurance salesman.
Please, a little compassion would be in order, notwithstanding your assurance you do in fact love the recently departed. Compassion, that is, if your Jesus allows it.
Software manufacturer Microsoft today admitted to another vulnerability in its popular Windows operating system. If left unpatched, a computer may be vulnerable to attacks from big rocks falling from the sky. Dubbed the `Friday the Thirteenth' weakness, the flaw is present on all current versions of Windows.
However, Microsoft has played down reports that this bug may prove disastrous. "Whilst this may cause problems in some isolated instances, we are confident we will have a patch ready shortly," announced Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer." In the meantime, we strongly urge all users of our software to ensure their anti-virus and firewall software is properly configured. Most of all though, don't open unexpected attachments in email and certainly don't attempt to download planetoids from outer space."
Mr Ballmer is also reported to have said that if the Friday the Thirteenth scenario is proven unlikely to occur, developer resources would be redirected to finalising the new Windows Operating System, codenamed Longhorn. Longhorn is expected to be released before the arrival of the Friday the Thirteenth asteroid, due in 2029.
When asked about the security features of the new operating system, Mr Ballmer said, "Competitors have always regarded security as something of a necessity, built in from the ground up. Friday the Thirteenth proves that our `sky-down' approach is far more forward thinking than they may ever have imagined."
Yeah, don't worry about me---it was way too late for me to be reading /.!
Fussiness is good, and I think today's era of scores being proofread by midi instead of real musicians somewhat parallels the way that people think they can write because the grammar checker in Word passes whatever it is they wrote.
You got me thinking about the differences in tone in brass instruments (which is all I really know.) Even two instruments of the same make and model---even the same batch number---can be out of tune on any particular note, and the tones can also be quite different.
This isn't restricted to cheap instruments---I'm thinking in particular of two AUS$2000 cornets, which is top of the range amateur/okay for a pro sort of range. The nature of the brass instrument manufacturing process is such that no two instruments will sound the same over their whole range.
Even the same instrument will sound differently according to temperature and humidity. I played a concert a week or two ago and my instrument was a whole semitone flatter at the end than when I started.
A musician may use different mouthpieces on the same instrument, which will change the tone quite dramatically, especially in the top and bottom registers.
Add to that the fact that musicians have different tones according to a whole lot of variables, including their own natural acoustic properties, muscle strength, mouth shape and so on. Indeed, a brass musician takes a lot of pride in cultivating their own particular tone. A really obvious example is Louis Armstrong. I'm convinced the distinctive tone he had was more to do with the fact that he originally learnt to play a cornet, not a trumpet.
Having said all that, your point is well taken. For technical reasons (ie, the piece was too difficult in it's original key) I recently lowered the key of a piece I'd arranged by a second. Even though the musicians were able to play all the notes, it took on a completely different feel, and didn't seem right. It was incredibly harsh. After a few plays, though, it had softened up---I think most of the musicians were unconsciously changing the tuning to match what it was they were doing. This was a Brass Band, so everyone could do this. I guess it'd be a whole lot different in another setting where tuning can't be changed on the fly.
Any trumpet player who is confident of playing this note in a public setting should be quite capable of allowing for these mistunings without even thinking about it.
If they can't, I don't think changing the key's going to help.
Good point though.
What do you suggest then? Hobbyists should hand over their code to a Big Company who will make sure that the market is more completely satisfied and that all users have what they want?
Rosegarden is GPL. If a Big Company wants to do the aforementioned, what's stopping them?
Go to http://alsa-project.org/ and have a look there. In Linux you don't normally get your driver directly from the manufacturer---it's better to get it from your distribution or from some central repository like this that can tell you how to install it for your system, and not some one driver fits all `system' like in Windows.
The project was originally funded by the European Commission, and is still going since official funding ceased. It's got some work to do still, but I'm thinking about pulling it down and having a play. A dedicated music machine sounds like a lot of fun!
You may not be aware, but Noteedit is no longer under development. Which is a real pity, because it was starting to become a really useful tool that had no pretensions to be anything but a notation editor.
I don't mind Rosegarden, but all I need is a notation editor, and a full blown midi environment (which is very pretty, by the way) is overkill. In actual fact, it confuses me a lot, which says more about me than the program!
Kudos to the devs though... I might even fire it up a bit during the holidays and have a play.
Yeah, I forgot about that. A lot of the music (what's this `top 40' of which you speak?) I listen to runs tracks on together, especially live recordings.
Then again, it does a crap job quickly, which from my experience suits it perfectly for p2p.
Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but this was his wife's computer. He's the sysadmin at a university. Unless his wife owns a university computer, it's not his fault!
That's right folks... there are women out there who use computers and call in the `experts' only when necessary.
Even when they're married to one.
Didn't the posted story violate the DMCA? It quite clearly told us how to use the shift key to circumvent DRM.
Not that it bothered my Linux box though.
Linux users can use Gramofile, which does this. Unfortunately you have to split the tracks up after the rip, but that's not such a problem.
I've found with Gramofile that I have to go through the whole sound file to check the splits are in the right place anyway (you can manually edit them if it got it wrong). It never really gets them completely right---it always needs another half a second or so to get the fade outs right, and it can have trouble with silent sections in songs. Most similar apps I've seen also have these limitations. Okay for quick and dirty, but it does get a bit annoying when you've got headphones on.
I have this problem, and I haven't had the energy to fix it. The annoying thing is that Thunderbird opens up .html links in the bluefish html editor.
Does the job I suppose, but those tags hurt the eye after a while!
Whilst I understand that the Geneva Convention wasn't written with terrorists in mind, the fact is that terrorists exist and we will find ourselves in the position of having to deal with them after their capture.
I don't think it's right to use the holes in the Geneva Convention as an excuse for torture. My original post was a reply to someone who said that the US recognises human rights on the basis of a person's humanity, irrespective of their citizenship. That doesn't seem to apply in this case.
Now I'm not saying we should house them in the Hilton (it'd probably get bombed anyway...!) but I think the spirit of the Geneva Convention would suggest that torture probably isn't a great idea morally.
And yes, I understand that we're talking about immoral people. That's the problem with war. Our enemies are always immoral, but we afford them what the Geneva Convention says we must.
There's still the question of whether or not members of Al-Qaeda are lawful or unlawful combatants. The War on Terror is a strange War if there are no legal enemies.
Here in Australia (IANAL, BTW) these things are called 'Expiation Notices.' I a speeding ticket once, and the text went something like:
...'
'You will soon be summonsed to appear in Court to hear the Prosecution present their case. You will be given the oportunity to present your defence... However, if you wish to dispose of this matter, please pay an amount of $$$ by
In other words, no decision about guilt would be made, and you just opted to take a lesser fine and perhaps a record made against your license. It reduces administrative paperwork, unclogs the court and police systems for real crime, and you get away without a conviction, lost wages or a bigger fine. It's so much easier, for me and the Courts.
In effect, it's an officially endorsed bribe---pay this, and we'll make it all go away!
Unless, of course, you are an enemy combatant from a militia not tied to any particular nation. Or, if GWB is right, an enemy combatant from anywhere.
You're mostly right. As far as I remember, you'll find a lot of stuff in there from previous edits. So if you've deleted something, it'll still be there. Some of the junk simply tells Word to ignore the (ir)relevant parts.
I'm not sure though---this may be a 'Fast Save' thing and not normal operation.
FOSS psychotics are the ones who are focussing on the bigger picture, and they believe a world without Microsoft is a theoretical possibility. It seems pretty narrow minded to assume that everything MS does should be considered a standard that everyone should blindly follow.
There may not be a conspiracy, but if a company holds a near monopoly on office software, there is a huge disincentive to open up the format.
The organisation I work for will never move to OOo because there's no guarantee that all MS Office files will transfer easily. We could go for a hybrid setup, but that's a lot more admin overhead. Having a few MS Office installations also means licensing headaches and so on. It's just easier to stay where we are, and not have any of the hassles associated with changing work tools.
So of course, MS wins, and competitors find entry into the market place difficult.
Besides, I like the guarantee that in fifty years' time I will be able to access the documents I write now. I can't even open documents I wrote 5 years ago (somebody else's copy of MS-Works) without having to buy a new copy of Works and an OS to run it on (I tried---it wouldn't work under WINE.)
Now I don't think that in the event of catastrophe (bankruptcy, Osama hits Seattle, etc) MS would withhold access to data formats. But it is possible, and not that many really worry about what the situation will be in a few decades.
RTFA. Whenit rolls over 10,000,000, let us know ;-)