audiocd:/ so how is this easier that double clicking your CD drive and having a media player play the music?
Media player doesn't CDDB, rip and encode it for you in a choice of formats. Nor can you drag and drop individual tracks as cdda, WAV, MP3 or Ogg file.
I notice you were silent on fish:// - perhaps you want some more protocols to try? How about rlogin:/host.name.here or rdate:/time.uwa.edu.au ? print:/ or print:/manager take your fancy? No? Try man: and catch you jaw. imap://username@mail.host.name/ and manage your email folders?
The list goes on. Sufficient to say that IE's lunch has been well and truly eaten. (-:
URPMI looks great, but is only available for Mandrake?
Don't know about the dependencies, you might have to rebuild the.src.rpm, but it should work on anything RPM-based and even close to normal (e.g. RedHat, SuSE).
See here for some interesting uses of it. It's almost enough to make you want to switch distros, and (as they say) craps on LindowsOS's aplication warehouse from a great height.
Pick, now known as D3, has been doing the everything-in-a-database bit for decades, no innovation there. Oddly enough the Pick clone uses PostgreSQL as a backend.
Yes, I know, you might use "apt-get install" instead of "urpmi" - but User Redhat Package Manager Installer has that proper unixy "acronym" feel to it...
"Trustworthy Computing" means that suppliers (primarily Microsoft) can trust it, not the owner or user.
Longhorn will break everything, which is a feature they'll have a real problem selling to end-users without an enormous helping of new value somewhere (and possibly even then). By which time, the Linus Torvalds World Domination Programme will have caught up with them. (-:
I see you're overdriving your amplifier. Would you like me to
[ clip horribly ] [ clip mushily ] [ catch fire ] [ blow a filament ]
The soft clipping effect can be obtained in most amplifiers with a single FET and a few resistors - cunningly wired - per channel. In real valve amps with valve rectifiers in the PSU, the clipping was so soft it was almost compression. Adding the correct hum, noise and slow turn-on is harder. Power consumption and heat is just a matter of wiring thumping great resistors across the power rails. (-:
I pick up good-quality old speakers from the side of the road on council rubbish-chuck-out days. Even with a crappy amp they sound great. For example, my computer uses a pair of same wired to an amp out of (still in, actually, but not wired to) an AUD$10 set of powered speakers.
A neighbour in Paraburdoo decades ago used to get unbelievable volume and quality out of home-made speakers built from (I kid you not) concrete and lined with conveyor-belt rubber. He drove them with a massive 6 watt amplifier. (-:
Telstra own most DSLAMs and can reach many more exchanges than anyone else. Optus have DSLAMs in Perth's Wellington Street exchange and presumably corresponding coverage in other states, and RUCC have a few DSLAMs scattered about (more than Optus, far fewer than Telstra).
Any DSL through Telstra is unreliable, but it seems that the DSL they on-sell through other ISPs is even less reliable than the Telstra-end-to-end flavour. Just a coincidence, of course.
Telstra have this really bizarre way of authenticating you (and their cable authentication is even "bizarrer") and getting a "tunnel reset" out of them can take two days. RUCC's is noticeably more reliable, Optus's has been rock solid for me, and in terms of works-first-time-OOTB Telstra just isn't on the same planet. And they bill you for your traffic both ways.
BigPond is Telstra's data (ISP) division. The other company gets their data through a Telstra DSLAM in the exchange because Telstra can afford to put DSLAMs everywhere when their competitors, even big ones like Optus, can only afford to put DSLAMs in the most popular exchanges - but are otherwise unrelated to Telstra.
I have one client who was dual-homed ADSL through Optus and iiNet. iiNet is Western Australia's biggest ISP, and they started out well, then went corporate on us and bought everyone else (and meanwhile the quality of service drove off a cliff). iiNet is the only ISP in Western Australia which manages to have more DSL downtime from their own incompetence than from Telstra faults. Optus DSL is much more expensive than most others, even Telstra, but OTOH the only time it ever when down was when lightning razzed the modem on the client's premises.
The same client now has a WestNet DSL (DSLAM by Telstra) and is looking at fibre through Request, whose underlying provider is RUCC for their second home at their new premises. RUCC seems to be nearly as reliable as Optus, and notably cheaper.
Telstra is the only ISP I know of in Australia who normally charges you for traffic in both directions. Some ISPs will charge you only for recieved traffic, others will charge you for the max of recieved and sent, but not Telstra.
Before you ask, I use ArachNet, one of the few surviving Western Australian ISPs which is both competent and small enough to care.
...of getting your friend or any of his workmates to post here as an AC? Get him to use your or someone else's ISP account if he's worried about being traced.
...how long ago was that? Which group of lawyers representing which part(s) of IBM did he work with and are they at all congruent with the group being brought on line now?
I'm a computer consultant from Perth, Western Australia. I use and deploy a lot of Linux. I'd be interested in comparing Linux against your IP violation claims, but would want to see and think about the required NDA first.
...of SCO shareholders who don't want the company to go kamikaze? And of those SCO shareholders and employees who also own stock elsewhere and don't want to see it trashed by D'ohl's ranting?
Maybe they got slightly hacked? Working from Google's cache of the main page, none of the local tributary pages exist at all. The images still do, though.
Slashdot Mirror
"I shall not presume"
"I shall not presume"
"I shall not presume"
"I shall not..."
Isn't that against the rules?
...was also missing any record of it. Curiouser and curiouser. Fraud squad, front and center!
Very Catholic of you.
Media player doesn't CDDB, rip and encode it for you in a choice of formats. Nor can you drag and drop individual tracks as cdda, WAV, MP3 or Ogg file.
I notice you were silent on fish:// - perhaps you want some more protocols to try? How about rlogin:/host.name.here or rdate:/time.uwa.edu.au ? print:/ or print:/manager take your fancy? No? Try man: and catch you jaw. imap://username@mail.host.name/ and manage your email folders?
The list goes on. Sufficient to say that IE's lunch has been well and truly eaten. (-:
Don't know about the dependencies, you might have to rebuild the .src.rpm, but it should work on anything RPM-based and even close to normal (e.g. RedHat, SuSE).
See here for some interesting uses of it. It's almost enough to make you want to switch distros, and (as they say) craps on LindowsOS's aplication warehouse from a great height.
Pick, now known as D3, has been doing the everything-in-a-database bit for decades, no innovation there. Oddly enough the Pick clone uses PostgreSQL as a backend.
I thought not.
audiocd:/ (yes, put an audio CD in your first CD drive before you click)
fish://luscious@your.fave.ssh.server
smb://nearestdozebox/c
There are plenty of others.
Whoo, that was tough! (-:
Yes, I know, you might use "apt-get install" instead of "urpmi" - but User Redhat Package Manager Installer has that proper unixy "acronym" feel to it...
2. OCR
3. Profit...? (-:
"Trustworthy Computing" means that suppliers (primarily Microsoft) can trust it, not the owner or user.
Longhorn will break everything, which is a feature they'll have a real problem selling to end-users without an enormous helping of new value somewhere (and possibly even then). By which time, the Linus Torvalds World Domination Programme will have caught up with them. (-:
...a pragmatist. (-:
You could always stretch a sheet of black cloth over them or something.
...and it all sounds good. Mind you, I generally don't exactly rattle the mortar out from between the bricks either.
The soft clipping effect can be obtained in most amplifiers with a single FET and a few resistors - cunningly wired - per channel. In real valve amps with valve rectifiers in the PSU, the clipping was so soft it was almost compression. Adding the correct hum, noise and slow turn-on is harder. Power consumption and heat is just a matter of wiring thumping great resistors across the power rails. (-:
I pick up good-quality old speakers from the side of the road on council rubbish-chuck-out days. Even with a crappy amp they sound great. For example, my computer uses a pair of same wired to an amp out of (still in, actually, but not wired to) an AUD$10 set of powered speakers.
A neighbour in Paraburdoo decades ago used to get unbelievable volume and quality out of home-made speakers built from (I kid you not) concrete and lined with conveyor-belt rubber. He drove them with a massive 6 watt amplifier. (-:
Any DSL through Telstra is unreliable, but it seems that the DSL they on-sell through other ISPs is even less reliable than the Telstra-end-to-end flavour. Just a coincidence, of course.
Telstra have this really bizarre way of authenticating you (and their cable authentication is even "bizarrer") and getting a "tunnel reset" out of them can take two days. RUCC's is noticeably more reliable, Optus's has been rock solid for me, and in terms of works-first-time-OOTB Telstra just isn't on the same planet. And they bill you for your traffic both ways.
I have one client who was dual-homed ADSL through Optus and iiNet. iiNet is Western Australia's biggest ISP, and they started out well, then went corporate on us and bought everyone else (and meanwhile the quality of service drove off a cliff). iiNet is the only ISP in Western Australia which manages to have more DSL downtime from their own incompetence than from Telstra faults. Optus DSL is much more expensive than most others, even Telstra, but OTOH the only time it ever when down was when lightning razzed the modem on the client's premises.
The same client now has a WestNet DSL (DSLAM by Telstra) and is looking at fibre through Request, whose underlying provider is RUCC for their second home at their new premises. RUCC seems to be nearly as reliable as Optus, and notably cheaper.
Telstra is the only ISP I know of in Australia who normally charges you for traffic in both directions. Some ISPs will charge you only for recieved traffic, others will charge you for the max of recieved and sent, but not Telstra.
Before you ask, I use ArachNet, one of the few surviving Western Australian ISPs which is both competent and small enough to care.
Either it's deliberate, or they don't read their own website very often.
...of getting your friend or any of his workmates to post here as an AC? Get him to use your or someone else's ISP account if he's worried about being traced.
...or your choice of BROK, DEAD, TROL, LAME, LUSR, TRKY, EVIL, SUKR, CHP7, GONE, LATE, many others. MSFT is already taken.
...how long ago was that? Which group of lawyers representing which part(s) of IBM did he work with and are they at all congruent with the group being brought on line now?
No, but I asked SCO about it. Let's see what happens.
...of SCO shareholders who don't want the company to go kamikaze? And of those SCO shareholders and employees who also own stock elsewhere and don't want to see it trashed by D'ohl's ranting?
Maybe they got slightly hacked? Working from Google's cache of the main page, none of the local tributary pages exist at all. The images still do, though.