I remember reading about it many times and the effects it will have. About a year ago I looked into it again and the story I read was something to the effect of "not going to happen anytime soon".
I'm sorry to hear this is starting up now.
Oh well,. Sadly there is nothing I can say or do to convince China to change their mind.
Microsoft announced Tuesday that plans for.Net Server, aka "Longhorn" have been scraped and they will instead focus on the the release after that, code-named "Foghorn".
I built a nice rack for my recording studio. Here's my method:
I hit up some furniture shops in search for an already built fixture. I had in mind something like a smaller bookshelf.
I stumbled on a section of a waterbed unit. It was being sold in several pieces including the bed, two shelf units on either side of the headboard, and the headboard unit itself.
It was all made up in oak and oak laminates.
The shelf unit was just over 19 inch wide, about 19 inch deep, and just over 5 feet tall. It had two drawers in the bottom of the unit.
They wanted $100 USD for each shelf unit.
I priced similer units at various music stores and they wanted at least $200 for something of this size (if not much more).
I bought the shelf unit and headed over to a music store and picked up two 4 foot rack rails. I pulled the 3 shelves out of the inside, pulled the back off, cut the rack rails down to size, mounted them with a handful of bolts. Presto! A very nice looking 20 space rack unit with two drawers.
Hey. I used to be on your Datatech station.:)
But, I bailed from mp3.com some time ago. Now I have a happy home at http://www.ampcast.com/tictok
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HA. Great idea.
I can see it now. People set up massive mp3/mpg files on their server and choke the hell out of it, but to cover their bandwidth costs they set up a small shopping area which sells something stupid like thimbles that look like Bea Arthur. (which of course no one would buy)
"Sorry ATT, I only sold one Bea Arthur thimble this month, your cut $.05. BTW, I think I need to upgrade to a OC3. I'm sure I'll sell more Bea Arthur thimbles next month with the wider pipe."
The story I heard about two years ago was it had to do with the owner of Red Hat having his grandfathers red hat stolen from him,.. or something like that.
I did the same thing. Installed Pc Anywhere and killed Win2000. This was only a few days after I install Win2000. It made me VERY gunshy about installing apps on the Win2k box.
I'm still not sure what killed the machine and why just installing a simple app on the software would trash the OS like that. Seems fairly retarded to me.
I'm not sure what else will kill Win2000. It will be interesting to see over time.
But, that said. It's seems backwards to have to have two Win2000 machines running. One to do the job and the other to use as a test base to install your apps on (just to make sure it won't kill your server)
I'm a local ISP provider in Oregon (in a small town) and we were aproached by a DSL provider. I/we felt it would be a bad idea just for the reasons you talked about. We would have no access to server information and when the fit hits the shan, we'd be lost. 7
In my windows machine I get to drive a car and avoid IT questions,..slowly,..and just in the driveway. Dad let's me drive slow, in the driveway. Time for Judge Wapner, and The People Court,.dum dum dumd um,. The Peoples Court. Who's on first?
I had some of my music up there for just under 3 months. We (The Tic Tok Men) went from number "nothing" to number one in our genre in just a few days. We pretty much held that chart until mp3.com removed the music genre "old skool" where we were listed.
MP3.com then added a new genre called "intelligent techno". We placed our music in that genre and BOOM, went to number one there. We held the number one in "intelligent techno" while the music was there, and number one for the state of Oregon several times. I think our peak was 200th most popular on all of mp3.com.
MP3.com then started the Payback for Playback promotion where you received money for a mix of band page views, music downloads, etc.
On November 28th our popular music went away. For no reason. Well,. Sort of went away. They went from "live" to "going live".
For a little background on how mp3.com works. When you first upload a song it gets placed in a "waiting to be approved" que. After the music is verified it is indeed in the proper mp3 format, then it goes to "going live" status. Normally, mp3.com says "going live" can take from 24-72 hours before it obtains "live" status. The music can not be downloaded or be placed in the charts until it's "live".
Well,. Our songs went from live to "going live" and were instantly removed from the charts. We found the whole thing a bit upsetting and attempted to ask mp3.com what happened. Pretty much the only response from mp3.com was a form letter type e-mail telling us it takes up to 72 hours for a song to go from "going live" to "live". Our calls to the mp3.com offices only resulted in voice mail boxes or forwarded to a recording telling us to check out the FAQ online.
In the meantime, mp3.com extended the Payback for Playback promotion. Which of course we totally lost out on.
Out of 6 songs on mp3.com, only two remained. These two where NOT the popular ones. In fact,. Of the six,. The two that were left were always the least downloaded. Oddly,. These 2 songs were also listed as "going live" but were still available. As a test, I downloaded one of these songs and checked the stats the next day. The download was not recorded.
I think we were one of the few bands on mp3.com that were actually selling cd's. (12 in November alone) A visit to the mp3.com message boards reflect many upset musicians complaining that they haven't had any downloads and never sold a cd. Sometimes you hear from a musician that is ecstatic because he had his music and CD available for almost a year and finally sold ONE CD!
MP3.com also has an interesting "scam" going where to make a CD available, the artist has to buy one to make it active. So,. You shell out $5.99 or what ever and you get 50% of that. Sounds ok right? Here's the scam part. MP3.com will only issue you a CD commission check if they owe you more then $50. Think about all those musicians that have only sold one CD, and THEY bought it. They will NEVER receive a commission check. In fact, really, they loose money.
Another common complaint is people getting upset at mp3.com and removing their music, only to find the songs, for some reason, remain for weeks or months on the mp3.com site. Mp3.com says "you can cancel at any time" but don't respect the musicians when they do. (We, in fact deleted our "going live" music from mp3.com several days ago and the two that remained are still there. Check http://www.mp3.com/tictok and you'll see what I mean.)
After being at mp3.com for just under 3 months, selling quite a few CD's and getting a number of hits and downloads (which added up for the November Payback for Playback promotion) I haven't ever seen a check from them. They owe us well over the $50 mark.
We used to have our music at mp3.com but moved it over to besonic.com. Besonic doesn't offer any money for your music, they don't have cd's available yet, you just put it there and people can listen to it. Looks like the only money they make is from advertising. That's ok with me. Seems like I get a place to house my music without feeling overly exploited.
So,. Here's a shameless plus. Take a listen to us at http://www.besonic.com/tictok and hear some really great electronic music in the vein of Kraftwerk. If you like it, please write a nice little note to mp3.com telling them how they lost a really swell band. Heh heh.
Slashdot Mirror
"Soon there will be a 'new' Porsche 959 racing down highway 520 in Redmond."
Speeding down 520? When? With all the traffic on that highway I think top speed is 15mph.
Hey wait a minute. I thought that was the "underware stealing" outline.
This website came just in time.
I've just drawn up plans to blow up the moon,..
bwa-ha
baw-ha-ha
BWA-HA_HA_HA!
Oh dear. More cute rovers buzzing along the surface only to be abandaned later.
I felt sorry for that one a few years back. Kind of like leaving a puppy when you move.
I remember reading about it many times and the effects it will have. About a year ago I looked into it again and the story I read was something to the effect of "not going to happen anytime soon".
I'm sorry to hear this is starting up now.
Oh well,. Sadly there is nothing I can say or do to convince China to change their mind.
Microsoft announced Tuesday that plans for .Net Server, aka "Longhorn" have been scraped and they will instead focus on the the release after that, code-named "Foghorn".
You know, when I hit pages like http://www.spidereyeballs.com/os5/ it makes me really miss my broadband.
On 56k I have time to reply on this thread before that page is even done loading in another browser.
Oh wait, my bad. That site is just slow.
Oh well. I still hate my modem.
I don't think I've watched a "intro" page in 3 years,.
Why bother?
I hit up some furniture shops in search for an already built fixture. I had in mind something like a smaller bookshelf.
I stumbled on a section of a waterbed unit. It was being sold in several pieces including the bed, two shelf units on either side of the headboard, and the headboard unit itself. It was all made up in oak and oak laminates.
The shelf unit was just over 19 inch wide, about 19 inch deep, and just over 5 feet tall. It had two drawers in the bottom of the unit.
They wanted $100 USD for each shelf unit.
I priced similer units at various music stores and they wanted at least $200 for something of this size (if not much more).
I bought the shelf unit and headed over to a music store and picked up two 4 foot rack rails. I pulled the 3 shelves out of the inside, pulled the back off, cut the rack rails down to size, mounted them with a handful of bolts. Presto! A very nice looking 20 space rack unit with two drawers.
Here's a link to few pictures. here and here.
The entire thing cost me about $150 USD ($100 for the shelf, $40 for the rack rails, and about 10 bucks for bolts and other hardware)
We never got along with mp3.com as a company.
Too many problems, no support, flighty policy changes, etc.etc.
After the changes in the new contract (version 2.0?? I think) we bailed. I just didn't see mp3.com moving towards indie music, just away.
By the looks of this buyout, I guess I was sort of right.
We are now at www.ampcast.com and quite happy (check out who is the featured artist.. hint-hint)
Ampcast is a great little site and the owners are really into the whole indie music thing.
Anyway, cheers for having us on the station while we were there. Thanks.
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Oppps.. Looks like I'll need to change my sig line :D
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Hey. I used to be on your Datatech station. :)
But, I bailed from mp3.com some time ago. Now I have a happy home at http://www.ampcast.com/tictok
HA. Great idea.
I can see it now. People set up massive mp3/mpg files on their server and choke the hell out of it, but to cover their bandwidth costs they set up a small shopping area which sells something stupid like thimbles that look like Bea Arthur. (which of course no one would buy)
"Sorry ATT, I only sold one Bea Arthur thimble this month, your cut $.05. BTW, I think I need to upgrade to a OC3. I'm sure I'll sell more Bea Arthur thimbles next month with the wider pipe."
Heh heh.. Where do I sign up?
MP
The story I heard about two years ago was it had to do with the owner of Red Hat having his grandfathers red hat stolen from him,.. or something like that.
Course, I might be wrong.
"wearing something as geeky as a head-mounted display is a sure method to repel female attention, rather than attract it."
:)
Ah yes. But with the proper image alterations to the proper images, the turn down and superimposed girl walking away from you would be less painful.
"Oh bummer, I was turned down _again_ by naked Natalie Portman. Oh well, I'll enjoy watching her walk away again"
I think they look cool. I want one.
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I did the same thing. Installed Pc Anywhere and killed Win2000. This was only a few days after I install Win2000. It made me VERY gunshy about installing apps on the Win2k box.
I'm still not sure what killed the machine and why just installing a simple app on the software would trash the OS like that. Seems fairly retarded to me.
I'm not sure what else will kill Win2000. It will be interesting to see over time.
But, that said. It's seems backwards to have to have two Win2000 machines running. One to do the job and the other to use as a test base to install your apps on (just to make sure it won't kill your server)
"Telco monopoly here in South Africa has deemed DSL an illegal technology"
Oh man,. that's just nuts. What's next? Touch Tone?
:)
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I'm a local ISP provider in Oregon (in a small town) and we were aproached by a DSL provider. I/we felt it would be a bad idea just for the reasons you talked about. We would have no access to server information and when the fit hits the shan, we'd be lost. 7
Reading down the posts, I looked for it. I didn't see it,. so I'll just go ahead and say it...
If I get these new AMD chips,..
and run it on a dual CPU board,..
Would it be called "Duron Duron"?
Just asking ?
MP
Why the hell did that get marked down to troll?
It's my opinion that the whole copyright nonsense sometimes is overwhelming.
Seeesh.
Some people.
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I'm sorry, is that off topic? It just seems like everytime I turn around there is some new attachment to Copyrights and violations or this or that.
I'm having a hard time remembering what the copyright act WAS, let alone try to keep up with new changes/proposed changes.
It makes my short term memory hurt.
(shaking head and going "bwbwbwbwbwbwbwbwbwbwb")
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But sometimes you just have to shake your head and say "bwbwbbwbwbwbwbwbwbwbwbwbwbw"
7.
In my windows machine I get to drive a car and avoid IT questions,..slowly,..and just in the driveway. Dad let's me drive slow, in the driveway. Time for Judge Wapner, and The People Court,.dum dum dumd um,. The Peoples Court.
Who's on first?
I got my old Atari and Combat.
I'm happy.
The whole mp3.com thing is rather interesting.
I had some of my music up there for just under 3 months. We (The Tic Tok Men) went from number "nothing" to number one in our genre in just a few days. We pretty much held that chart until mp3.com removed the music genre "old skool" where we were listed.
MP3.com then added a new genre called "intelligent techno". We placed our music in that genre and BOOM, went to number one there. We held the number one in "intelligent techno" while the music was there, and number one for the state of Oregon several times. I think our peak was 200th most popular on all of mp3.com.
MP3.com then started the Payback for Playback promotion where you received money for a mix of band page views, music downloads, etc.
On November 28th our popular music went away. For no reason. Well,. Sort of went away. They went from "live" to "going live".
For a little background on how mp3.com works. When you first upload a song it gets placed in a "waiting to be approved" que. After the music is verified it is indeed in the proper mp3 format, then it goes to "going live" status. Normally, mp3.com says "going live" can take from 24-72 hours before it obtains "live" status. The music can not be downloaded or be placed in the charts until it's "live".
Well,. Our songs went from live to "going live" and were instantly removed from the charts. We found the whole thing a bit upsetting and attempted to ask mp3.com what happened. Pretty much the only response from mp3.com was a form letter type e-mail telling us it takes up to 72 hours for a song to go from "going live" to "live". Our calls to the mp3.com offices only resulted in voice mail boxes or forwarded to a recording telling us to check out the FAQ online.
In the meantime, mp3.com extended the Payback for Playback promotion. Which of course we totally lost out on.
Out of 6 songs on mp3.com, only two remained. These two where NOT the popular ones. In fact,. Of the six,. The two that were left were always the least downloaded. Oddly,. These 2 songs were also listed as "going live" but were still available. As a test, I downloaded one of these songs and checked the stats the next day. The download was not recorded.
I think we were one of the few bands on mp3.com that were actually selling cd's. (12 in November alone) A visit to the mp3.com message boards reflect many upset musicians complaining that they haven't had any downloads and never sold a cd. Sometimes you hear from a musician that is ecstatic because he had his music and CD available for almost a year and finally sold ONE CD!
MP3.com also has an interesting "scam" going where to make a CD available, the artist has to buy one to make it active. So,. You shell out $5.99 or what ever and you get 50% of that. Sounds ok right? Here's the scam part. MP3.com will only issue you a CD commission check if they owe you more then $50.
Think about all those musicians that have only sold one CD, and THEY bought it. They will NEVER receive a commission check. In fact, really, they loose money.
Another common complaint is people getting upset at mp3.com and removing their music, only to find the songs, for some reason, remain for weeks or months on the mp3.com site. Mp3.com says "you can cancel at any time" but don't respect the musicians when they do. (We, in fact deleted our "going live" music from mp3.com several days ago and the two that remained are still there.
Check http://www.mp3.com/tictok and you'll see what I mean.)
After being at mp3.com for just under 3 months, selling quite a few CD's and getting a number of hits and downloads (which added up for the November Payback for Playback promotion) I haven't ever seen a check from them. They owe us well over the $50 mark.
We used to have our music at mp3.com but moved it over to besonic.com. Besonic doesn't offer any money for your music, they don't have cd's available yet, you just put it there and people can listen to it. Looks like the only money they make is from advertising. That's ok with me. Seems like I get a place to house my music without feeling overly exploited.
So,. Here's a shameless plus. Take a listen to us at
http://www.besonic.com/tictok
and hear some really great electronic music in the vein of Kraftwerk.
If you like it, please write a nice little note to mp3.com telling them how they lost a really swell band. Heh heh.