I thought about that, but I mentioned it as a hint to the tainted image of the USA that bigots and zealots are making so prevalent abroad. Their voices are louder this side of the Atlantic.
A few days ago, an article on the NY Times cited Italy as an example of (relatively) peaceful coexistence of strong Catholicism and contrasting modern living issues (divorce, abortion, contraception).
I actually thought the author's conclusions were a little superficial with regards to the Italian reality: religious zealotry here is pervasive, creeping beneath a veneer of apparently laical political debate -- much more than the author expressed in the text.
However, a page-one article on an American newspaper about the harshness of moral/religious debates in the States... That made me think.
I often enjoy "Will & Grace" from NBC on Italian networks. I think it offers new, fresh perspectives on such topics as homosexuality, alternative sexual practices and free love, all in a funny and merry way. Important themes are delivered in a comprehensible, safe language which is fit for both anxious parents and their young kids.
It is always a good thing when such modern shows are from the United States, a country all too often unjustly berated of bigotry, religious extremism and obtusity. Shows like "Will & Grace" both improve our perception of modern-day living, and the image of your country to a foreigner's eyes.
Thank you, FCC Commissioners. Thank you, America.
N.B.: I did submit this crap with real data. Am I gonna get sued for this or what?:)
Konfabulator does have its own "desktop," and it matches your description of Dashboard perfectly.
It's called Konsposé. You bind it to a key or mouse button, and when activated it brings about (with a fade-in!) an overlay where you have all your active widgets.
You can set widgets to only be visible in Konsposé, so as to save up on desktop real estate.
Or, you can place them in the very top layer on the desktop, so that you can click what's below them. In this latter case, you'll handle the widget by mouse while holding the command button, or in Konsposé.
Almost everything in my music collection was ripped from the originals using grip under linux, and I put the artist name in the song title, so the above worked for me. If you have whitespace in the filename, you will have to do some fancy quoting.
I see, but getting back to the main point, this also confirms a "typical" iTunes/iPod user, who rips via iTunes and "consolidates" his/her library (= no artist name and a lotta whitespace) would need such a How-To. So as long as we're debating general usefulness of the "hack" in TFA, I guess there is some.
However, if we're discussing the interest of posting something like this on/., well then it's probably true TFA is old news.
Personally, though, I think this kind of information may help as you deal with the non-geek world: when asked for help, just mail a link to TFA followed by "No! I will not fix your computer!"
If you wanna get fancy, you can import them by checking the "copy imported music to iTunes" and do:
for i in `find./ -iname *portishead*`; do open $i; done
Uhm... Actually, iTunes names files as [song number in album][whitespace][title].m4a. Album and artist information is only stored on ID3 tags and in the directory structure of iTunes, not iPod, libraries.
Using your code on a typical iPod (or iTunes, for that matter) library, you would only find songs whose title contains "Portishead." Luckily in this case, Darwin saves you the additional hassle of dealing with case-sensitivity.
Not sure if you can change this default behavior, but even if you could, it's certainly something the average user would not have done when backing up.
On a 3G iPod with latest firmware, the dir is actually:
/Volumes/<name of iPod>/iPod_Control/Music/
Copying still works with iTunes 4.7.
Yeah, sure, a couple of commands will get you a general backup, but "focused" backups (e.g., by albums) are not trivial at all. You will need dedicated scripting, I guess. The (randomized?) directory tree pretty much prevents any browsing by "musical" info. However, I will concede that users should have a right to a general backup: fancier functions such as "only backup my precious NOFX" would be something of a plus.
Lastly, I don't think most Mac users know how to use the CLI, especially considering an iPod is no longer a geek gadget (if it ever was.) Same applies to the Windows part of the How-To, I'd say.
"By allowing no more than three applications to run at any given time," added Mr. Doe, head of Starter Edition Security Dept. for the Redmond, Wa.-based corporation, "This system offers enhanced security. Our research tells us that no more than one virus could ever compromise your system while you're browsing the web and checking your e-mail. Fire up the firewall and you're totally secure."
Disclaimer: TFA says "Starter Edition customers can get patches and updates," so I guess you can connect to "something" using this thing. Or are they even trying to sell an Internet-disabled OS?
What I meant was, "Are JPEG's visualized in IE (in webpages) exploitable? And if so are they checked by AV?"
Those who posted above are talking about downloading the file for later opening, I presume. They're saying Norton got it "before it landed on their desktop."
I guess my answer now lies in a couple of posts near the bottom of the page. Many thanks for your help...
Correct, but the original phrase is wrong. "Ex" takes the ablative case, and expresses
Er... Let's say great minds mistake alike... I meant to say it expresses an idea of sudden appearance, or a motion from the inside to the outside of something.
Most journals offer much of their content for free online, albeit with a few restrictions.
I know of only two medical journals doing this, and that will only last until 2006 IIRC. That's the British Medical Journal and the rather obscure "Critical Care."
Give me *one* more journal that gives you free access for articles that are not two years old or more. And think about me curing you with no better than two-year old notions.
I'm a doctor, I try to keep up with the progress in medicine. I think of it as a duty for someone in the profession, and it's hard not to think about access to papers as a *right*.
Not a doctor's right of course, but a patient's right to get the best treatment available.
Scientific publishing is pure business nowadays. Why else would almost all publishers charge the same price for paper and online subscriptions?
There are notable exceptions: BMJ, NEJM and... None else I can think of.
What in your opinion prevents evil China/North Korea/Iran from paying $300 or whatever it costs to subscribe to Nature, then share it all on the net (or private institutional networks)? After all we all know they don't care much about foreign copyright issues. Go on, sue them.
Open access means free access to those who can't afford the 300 bucks. Usually not the very evil ones. Me, you, your typical doctor from Rwanda whose government doesn't even know where his hospital is, and many others.
It Just Works. Linux, PCs, Mac. Qt 3.3 limitation, tho.
Well, not exactly on the Mac (yet?).
The Mac OS X version is still in public beta, and they have been putting out four versions in a few days. They seem to be way backward on this platform.
The quality of these releses ranged from "Cant' call my friend in in Germany" to "My G5 is doing 70 Celsius with CPU usage 110%, and I still have to call anyone" to the plain old "WTF this thing won't even login."
http://actor.loquendo.com
The best-sounding TTS program I ever heard, for any language I speak.
Outputs mp3's up to 30 seconds in length, and even longer wav's.
It's down right now... Slashdotted?
If cost is not a problem in the library (read the article, people), why not go for the most attractive, easy-to-use solution?
You get a full range of web browsers for all your needs, decent support from the company (if you pay for it), and probably discounts since you're working in an educational area.
When it comes to Office applications, they may not be exactly the same as their Win32 counterparts, but Windows people won't certainly get lost when using them.
When you've got the bucks and don't have very special IT needs, Mac is a must.
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I thought about that, but I mentioned it as a hint to the tainted image of the USA that bigots and zealots are making so prevalent abroad. Their voices are louder this side of the Atlantic.
A few days ago, an article on the NY Times cited Italy as an example of (relatively) peaceful coexistence of strong Catholicism and contrasting modern living issues (divorce, abortion, contraception).
I actually thought the author's conclusions were a little superficial with regards to the Italian reality: religious zealotry here is pervasive, creeping beneath a veneer of apparently laical political debate -- much more than the author expressed in the text.
However, a page-one article on an American newspaper about the harshness of moral/religious debates in the States... That made me think.
Attn: ALL FIVE FCC COMMISSIONERS!!!
:)
I often enjoy "Will & Grace" from NBC on Italian networks. I think it offers new, fresh perspectives on such topics as homosexuality, alternative sexual practices and free love, all in a funny and merry way. Important themes are delivered in a comprehensible, safe language which is fit for both anxious parents and their young kids.
It is always a good thing when such modern shows are from the United States, a country all too often unjustly berated of bigotry, religious extremism and obtusity. Shows like "Will & Grace" both improve our perception of modern-day living, and the image of your country to a foreigner's eyes.
Thank you, FCC Commissioners. Thank you, America.
N.B.: I did submit this crap with real data. Am I gonna get sued for this or what?
Konfabulator does have its own "desktop," and it matches your description of Dashboard perfectly.
It's called Konsposé. You bind it to a key or mouse button, and when activated it brings about (with a fade-in!) an overlay where you have all your active widgets.
You can set widgets to only be visible in Konsposé, so as to save up on desktop real estate.
Or, you can place them in the very top layer on the desktop, so that you can click what's below them. In this latter case, you'll handle the widget by mouse while holding the command button, or in Konsposé.
I see, but getting back to the main point, this also confirms a "typical" iTunes/iPod user, who rips via iTunes and "consolidates" his/her library (= no artist name and a lotta whitespace) would need such a How-To. So as long as we're debating general usefulness of the "hack" in TFA, I guess there is some.
/., well then it's probably true TFA is old news.
However, if we're discussing the interest of posting something like this on
Personally, though, I think this kind of information may help as you deal with the non-geek world: when asked for help, just mail a link to TFA followed by "No! I will not fix your computer!"
Uhm... Actually, iTunes names files as [song number in album][whitespace][title].m4a. Album and artist information is only stored on ID3 tags and in the directory structure of iTunes, not iPod, libraries.
Using your code on a typical iPod (or iTunes, for that matter) library, you would only find songs whose title contains "Portishead." Luckily in this case, Darwin saves you the additional hassle of dealing with case-sensitivity.
Not sure if you can change this default behavior, but even if you could, it's certainly something the average user would not have done when backing up.
Yeah, sure, a couple of commands will get you a general backup, but "focused" backups (e.g., by albums) are not trivial at all. You will need dedicated scripting, I guess. The (randomized?) directory tree pretty much prevents any browsing by "musical" info.
However, I will concede that users should have a right to a general backup: fancier functions such as "only backup my precious NOFX" would be something of a plus.
Lastly, I don't think most Mac users know how to use the CLI, especially considering an iPod is no longer a geek gadget (if it ever was.) Same applies to the Windows part of the How-To, I'd say.
I heard one of the main titles will be "Duke Nuke'em Forever FX."
Arabic results display alright here (firefox 0.9.3 on windows) but you can't click on them.
Firefox 1.0.1 on OS X, here. Arabic results display fine (well, they look like they're alright...) and are clickable. I used your link to check.
IANAL, but EU law now requires the store to charge you with your country's VAT, AFAIK.
I.e., when buying in Italy (20% VAT) from the Danish store (25% VAT) you should be charged 20, not 25%.
On a sidenote, it seems as though non-EU countries are requrired to charge for VAT nonetheless, all customs duties aside.
California-based Kagi.com, for example, sells shareware (no duties involved, thus) and is charging EU customers at their country's VAT rate.
No idea where the money goes once it's off my credit card...
"By allowing no more than three applications to run at any given time," added Mr. Doe, head of Starter Edition Security Dept. for the Redmond, Wa.-based corporation, "This system offers enhanced security. Our research tells us that no more than one virus could ever compromise your system while you're browsing the web and checking your e-mail. Fire up the firewall and you're totally secure."
Disclaimer: TFA says "Starter Edition customers can get patches and updates," so I guess you can connect to "something" using this thing. Or are they even trying to sell an Internet-disabled OS?
That better be +1 Inarticulate, if it must...
What I meant was, "Are JPEG's visualized in IE (in webpages) exploitable? And if so are they checked by AV?"
Those who posted above are talking about downloading the file for later opening, I presume. They're saying Norton got it "before it landed on their desktop."
I guess my answer now lies in a couple of posts near the bottom of the page. Many thanks for your help...
Is IE affected by the exploit, as well?
And if so, would Norton or other antivirus software catch the bad code in time?
I guess that's one of the main points...
Correct, but the original phrase is wrong. "Ex" takes the ablative case, and expresses
Er... Let's say great minds mistake alike... I meant to say it expresses an idea of sudden appearance, or a motion from the inside to the outside of something.
Correct, but the original phrase is wrong. "Ex" takes the ablative case, and expresses
It should thus read "Deus ex auro." - cfr. the medical term "ex vivo," as opposed to "vivum."
Pretty naive mistake on the author's part (I'm assuming it's in the book).
Most journals offer much of their content for free online, albeit with a few restrictions.
I know of only two medical journals doing this, and that will only last until 2006 IIRC. That's the British Medical Journal and the rather obscure "Critical Care."
Give me *one* more journal that gives you free access for articles that are not two years old or more. And think about me curing you with no better than two-year old notions.
I'm a doctor, I try to keep up with the progress in medicine. I think of it as a duty for someone in the profession, and it's hard not to think about access to papers as a *right*.
Not a doctor's right of course, but a patient's right to get the best treatment available.
Scientific publishing is pure business nowadays. Why else would almost all publishers charge the same price for paper and online subscriptions?
There are notable exceptions: BMJ, NEJM and... None else I can think of.
Somebody modded this insightful?
What in your opinion prevents evil China/North Korea/Iran from paying $300 or whatever it costs to subscribe to Nature, then share it all on the net (or private institutional networks)? After all we all know they don't care much about foreign copyright issues. Go on, sue them.
Open access means free access to those who can't afford the 300 bucks. Usually not the very evil ones. Me, you, your typical doctor from Rwanda whose government doesn't even know where his hospital is, and many others.
It Just Works. Linux, PCs, Mac. Qt 3.3 limitation, tho.
Well, not exactly on the Mac (yet?).
The Mac OS X version is still in public beta, and they have been putting out four versions in a few days. They seem to be way backward on this platform.
The quality of these releses ranged from "Cant' call my friend in in Germany" to "My G5 is doing 70 Celsius with CPU usage 110%, and I still have to call anyone" to the plain old "WTF this thing won't even login."
Well, IIRC here in Italy, fines are about 1200 per individual offender (not sure about companies though).
Also, because of a legal trick (let's call it mishap), a criminal charge may be pressed even if you don't make a cent with the copyrighted material.
Gotta pick carefully, but you're right.
http://actor.loquendo.com The best-sounding TTS program I ever heard, for any language I speak. Outputs mp3's up to 30 seconds in length, and even longer wav's. It's down right now... Slashdotted?
If cost is not a problem in the library (read the article, people), why not go for the most attractive, easy-to-use solution?
You get a full range of web browsers for all your needs, decent support from the company (if you pay for it), and probably discounts since you're working in an educational area.
When it comes to Office applications, they may not be exactly the same as their Win32 counterparts, but Windows people won't certainly get lost when using them.
When you've got the bucks and don't have very special IT needs, Mac is a must.
Well I guess that's the opinion of someone who's actually working on Solaris. Proudly biased?
I'd rather say add Solaris to your Mac, next to OS X and Linux...