Re:Eternal September = Remember when /b/ was good?
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R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008
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There's really nothing in common between usenet and *chan.
Go poke around at groups.google.com, and imagine that working like an email client instead of some weird google frontend.
Now add a bunch of groups solely for the purpose if distributing binary posts (ie, archives, ISOs, less savory things).
That is usenet. And it's still there. Usually something around $10/month will get you access from a non-ISP provider, around $25-$30 will get you *unlimited* access - and I mean unlimited.
I'm surprised windows boots! Last time I tried this, windows refused to boot unless it's loader was on the first drive (and the active partition, also).
All of that was all arbitrary "fuck-you" coding style anyways, and it should have been written flexibly from the start, like Grub.
It all depends whom your modern recordings come from. Myself, I've made a few (and you don't want to hear them, they are quite amateurish crap really) and I don't compress. I simply amplify the whole thing so that the highest peak is at 0dB.
However, this only works fine when you have a nice quiet environment, and good quality listening equipment. A typical place to listen to music, such as in a car, needs the compression, as all the external noise drowns out anything below a given floor.
There's no real quick-fix, no one-shot solution. You either release compressed media along with uncompressed, or you give the uncompressed media and let the end-user compress it as required. This can be done in the playback hardware/software quite easily.
Who's the mentally... challenged... individual who decided that applying such compression in the first place was a good idea, and then proceeded to implement or accept such a shitty implementation?
Buy hardware, and if it doesn't contain the right chipset send it back to the manufacturer with the reason for the return ("Unlabeled change in chipset, product is no longer compatible").
I've seen some hardware have the chipset printed on the box. My PCMCIA card from Netgear incidentally had the Atheros logo on the box.
Yes but, due to the physical differences (MIMO, etc) the software->hardware interface is likely significantly different.
The specifications for 802.11n are mostly compatible with a/b/g, but what you are saying is, to use a car analogy, putting a truck transmission into a coup. Sure, they do the same thing, but they are still completely different 'under the hood'.
Another example: a CD and DVD do the same thing, a DVD is backwards compatible, and a DVD does more. But a DVD is not a CD, and you cannot interface with the DVD the same way as you do a CD. (this is usually abstracted away from you, by the chips in the actual drive, but it is still true)
Your cable box is defective. Everyone seems to be having that issue. You get lucky and you get a box that works, and you see ALL of the issues you mentioned magically disappear.
It would be nice if these jerks would stop buying their equipment from the lowest bidder.
There are desktops that ship with lightweight desktops, such as xfce, enlightenment, fluxbox, etc.
Give xubuntu a try, it's got a lightweight non-compositing window manager that works wonderfully, and you get all the new packages. Remeber that you can install as many window managers as you want, and choose which one to use when you log in (it's under 'sessions').
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There's really nothing in common between usenet and *chan.
Go poke around at groups.google.com, and imagine that working like an email client instead of some weird google frontend.
Now add a bunch of groups solely for the purpose if distributing binary posts (ie, archives, ISOs, less savory things).
That is usenet. And it's still there. Usually something around $10/month will get you access from a non-ISP provider, around $25-$30 will get you *unlimited* access - and I mean unlimited.
Usenet is still there. This is the end of ISP provided access.
WTF is the point of this?
1. Nobody is going to fall for it.
2. goat.cx isn't obscene anymore
3. It doesn't even make sense!
What, is this the trolling equivalent of "i'm not touching you! i'm not touching you!"
What the hell is with all that "you republicans" bullshit?
Early versions/prototypes probably, but for a while now, they have been included directly in the CPU die.
I'm surprised windows boots! Last time I tried this, windows refused to boot unless it's loader was on the first drive (and the active partition, also).
All of that was all arbitrary "fuck-you" coding style anyways, and it should have been written flexibly from the start, like Grub.
And no TPM in the laptop.
That's the whole point of the problem, TPM has begun causing issues. You don't have TPM, so you are not affected.
So what do you think your interpreter is made of? Somewhere, "unsafe" native code has to run.
The best part about my car is the huge dent in the bottom of the tank... previous owner had jacked up the car with the fuel tank.
Mine goes from 1/4 to empty REAL fast.
The poster specifically stated "(not a word processor)" - this rules out Word, OpenOffice, etc.
It all depends whom your modern recordings come from. Myself, I've made a few (and you don't want to hear them, they are quite amateurish crap really) and I don't compress. I simply amplify the whole thing so that the highest peak is at 0dB.
However, this only works fine when you have a nice quiet environment, and good quality listening equipment. A typical place to listen to music, such as in a car, needs the compression, as all the external noise drowns out anything below a given floor.
There's no real quick-fix, no one-shot solution. You either release compressed media along with uncompressed, or you give the uncompressed media and let the end-user compress it as required. This can be done in the playback hardware/software quite easily.
No, but there is lots of room between the two extremes.
"Extremist" works both ways.
Then hide the options. You don't protect the idiot by rubber-coating all the corners in the room, you protect them by putting the knives out of reach.
The darkness! I want to attack the darkness! ...
Fine, fine. . You cast nuclear fission at the darkness.
You still have the right, however irresponsible applying that right to the people who depend on you.
They need to allow a means of bypassing the compression, then.
Who's the mentally... challenged... individual who decided that applying such compression in the first place was a good idea, and then proceeded to implement or accept such a shitty implementation?
Buy hardware, and if it doesn't contain the right chipset send it back to the manufacturer with the reason for the return ("Unlabeled change in chipset, product is no longer compatible").
I've seen some hardware have the chipset printed on the box. My PCMCIA card from Netgear incidentally had the Atheros logo on the box.
Um... that's what they did. You don't need to open the hardware, just the interface to the hardware.
Yell at Sony for putting shit-chips in your laptop.
Yes but, due to the physical differences (MIMO, etc) the software->hardware interface is likely significantly different.
The specifications for 802.11n are mostly compatible with a/b/g, but what you are saying is, to use a car analogy, putting a truck transmission into a coup. Sure, they do the same thing, but they are still completely different 'under the hood'.
Another example: a CD and DVD do the same thing, a DVD is backwards compatible, and a DVD does more. But a DVD is not a CD, and you cannot interface with the DVD the same way as you do a CD. (this is usually abstracted away from you, by the chips in the actual drive, but it is still true)
No relation. 802.11n is completely different hardware than a/b/g.
What's a 'cnp' troll, specifically? This is new to me...
Your cable box is defective. Everyone seems to be having that issue. You get lucky and you get a box that works, and you see ALL of the issues you mentioned magically disappear.
It would be nice if these jerks would stop buying their equipment from the lowest bidder.
There are desktops that ship with lightweight desktops, such as xfce, enlightenment, fluxbox, etc.
Give xubuntu a try, it's got a lightweight non-compositing window manager that works wonderfully, and you get all the new packages. Remeber that you can install as many window managers as you want, and choose which one to use when you log in (it's under 'sessions').
Don't give up after trying Gnome and KDE.
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