Can we all just switch to Postgres now? I hope so. Though Postgres needs serious work in the n00b friendly area.
Cheap web hosting, I'm looking at you... TronicTech. They offer Postgres, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Perl, Python, ssh, MailMan, subdomains/multiple host names (each can have different content), etc with plans starting at $5.95/mo. I've been using the $5.95/mo plan for about two years now and have been very happy with it.
As with the MP3 format [3] , no licenses or payments are required to be able to stream or distribute content in AAC format. [4] This reason alone makes AAC a much more attractive format for distributing content, particularly streaming content (such as Internet radio).
However, a patent license is required for all manufacturers or developers of AAC codecs. [5] It is for this reason FOSS implementations such as FAAC and FAAD are distributed in source form only, in order to avoid patent infringement.
AAC requires a patent license, and thus uses proprietary technology. But contrary to popular belief, it is not the property of a single company, having been developed in a standards-making organization.
Likewise, there is no excuse for devices and stores to not support OGG Vorbis.
Really, why wouldn't you want to use a high quality, patent free codec? MP3 and AAC are patent infested, though AAC is slightly better (with mp3 you have to pay to sell mp3s).
Probably at least 90% of those are vulnerable to SQL injection exploits. After all, checking data and using prepared statements or at least "addslashes()" is just "way too complicated".
Well, the worst a gun can do is kill someone. A used CD will deprive a record executive of a few cents. What's more important? The life of a peasant or some extra cash for an executive? Obviously it's the extra cash for the executive. Used cds are theft and must be stopped. </riaa>
I also use MS Office 2004 on my Mac due to how bad OpenOffice and NeoOffice/J are, but why do you think MS Office on OS X is bad? It's interface is so much nicer than any version released for Windows. I've never encountered an issue with it, everything works as it should. No crashes, either.
I love the formatting pallet, it makes things much easier to deal with. Just take a look.
Seriously the Republican field isn't looking too good. Ron Paul seems good, though he's not a neocon so it's not like he actually has a chance of winning.
Ever think you might be throwing out the baby with the bathwater on this one? I got pushed to it. On average I was getting 100+ image spams a day. At first using OCR worked, but that stopped working months ago as just about every image spam I get is CAPTCHA'd.
I mean, you never get ham with a GIF in it? No.
I used to use VideoDownloader. Though it got frustrating when the majority of the time I tried to use it, I was getting "Server Busy" errors. That's when I found FastVideoDownload. It runs completely in your browser. If you're on YouTube, click it's icon on the status bar and a file dialog pops up for saving the file. It works great.
For the places it doesn't work, I just keep "tail -f/var/log/squid/access.log | grep flv" in a terminal and then grab the urls and download them with wget.
Especially considering AAC doesn't require royalty payments. Yes it does. Like MP3 it's patent infested:
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In contrast with the MP3 format, which requires royalty payments on distributed content, no licenses or payments are required to be able to stream or distribute content in AAC format. This reason alone makes AAC a much more attractive format for distributing content, particularly streaming content (such as Internet radio).
However, a patent license is required for all manufacturers or developers of AAC codecs. It is for this reason FOSS implementations such as FAAC and FAAD are distributed in source form only, in order to avoid patent infringement.
AAC requires a patent license, and thus uses proprietary technology. But contrary to popular belief, it is not the property of a single company, having been developed in a standards-making organization.
1. Buy off-lease. 2. Buy a Mac. You can dual boot with Windows or use Parallels or VMWare. 3. Buy a laptop preloaded with Linux. You can dual boot with Windows or use VMWare (VMWare Server is great for running Windows under Linux).
There's also a forth if you don't care if it's not legal: 4. Use an activation crack. There is a really good open source one that always works and gets past all validation checks.
For the second two, you could just pick up a copy of XP and stick on on. With the first option it'd be included, and you'd get real hardware (ie, no cripplons) at a much lower cost than you'd get something new. Hell, you can get a good off-lease desktop for the retail price of XP Pro.
Photo printers, like all inkjets, are a scam. The companies gouge you for the ink. The quality is piss poor compared to real photos. The photo paper is seriously over priced. The very expensive ink runs and smears when it encounters any moisture. Etc.
I fell for this once, but never again. What I do now is have my digital photos printed. Snapfish does it for $0.15/photo. Walmart does it for $0.12/photo and you can upload it online and pick it up at a local store. What you get is a photo that looks exactly like what you'd get with film. Only you get to do some GIMPing to it first.
It's significantly cheaper doing it this way rather than printing it with a photo printer. I mean, not counting the paper, with $60 worth of ink I was about to print maybe 30 photos. And they looked like ass, plus often the ink would smear before it dried. That's compared to the $27 (shipping was $8 or something) I paid Snapfish for the 180 photos I took on my vacation last summer, all of which look great.
I've been a user of armoK for several years, but since I switched to Gnome last June I've found Exaile to be quite nice. It doesn't have all of the features of amaroK, but it's still an excellent player and integrates very nicely with Gnome. Don't bother with Banshee or Rhythm box. With my collection (~200GB of mp3s (encoded with lame --preset standard -m s -q 0 --vbr-new -p --replaygain-accurate)), both of those crawl and crash regularly. amaroK and Exaile both handle my collection perfectly.
There is a gnome equivalent but it is not quite as stable. I can't speak for the MacOSX crowd, but when in Win32 (rare these days) I reluctantly choose to use Winamp. I've been using Exaile on my desktop, work computers, and laptop (PowerBook, with Ubuntu PPC) for a while. I have not had it crash once on any of those. Are you using the binaries from their site? Even the betas have been stable for me.
Be an ID3 tag-nazi - No player can compensate for 750 GB of badly named media. MP3Tag is your friend for batch editing ID3 tags Easytag is also quite nice.
Sort all your files using a resonable naming system. I use '/path/to/archive/%Artist%/[%Year] %Album%/%02Track% - %Title%.%Ext%'. This comes in real handy for writing scripts to deal with an archive to large to manage by hand. That is a must.
Something I'm more impressed with is Echo2, which is dual licensed under the LGPL and MPL. Try out the demos. It's possible to do some really cool stuff with it. I started learning it a few days ago, so far it seems really nice.
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There is work towards Xen support. Though, Xen doesn't provide a GUI like VMWare or even Qemu so you'd have to run something like VNC to get the display.
The nice thing about the MP3 model is it only rewards songs that are worth it. Anyone who has bought CDs knows each CD is engineered to have 2-3 good tracks and the rest as mediocre filler songs. The big songs are what they advertise and publicize via concerts, radio, movie soundtracks, etc. The filler take much less money to produce. I cannot remember the last time I bought a cd that only had 2-3 good tracks on it, and I buy a lot of them (>6/mo). Let's see some of what I've bought recently:
Kittie - Funeral for Yesterday Mastodon - Blood Mountain Lamb of God - Sacrament Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies Otep - The Ascension Kidneytheives - Zer0space
All of those are solid. Every song on them is worth listening to.
For those of you who keep saying the 2-3 song thing, what type of music is it? Top 40 or similar?
Even the cds I buy after hearing them on radio are solid. Whenever I get something I hear off of Headbanger's Ball it's solid. When I get something I hear off of Hard Attack (Sirius) it's solid.
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Well, Peacefire should meet your web based anonymizing needs. If you need more, that's what Tor and JAP are for.
Correct. It costs $1.05.
As with the MP3 format [3] , no licenses or payments are required to be able to stream or distribute content in AAC format. [4] This reason alone makes AAC a much more attractive format for distributing content, particularly streaming content (such as Internet radio).
However, a patent license is required for all manufacturers or developers of AAC codecs. [5] It is for this reason FOSS implementations such as FAAC and FAAD are distributed in source form only, in order to avoid patent infringement.
AAC requires a patent license, and thus uses proprietary technology. But contrary to popular belief, it is not the property of a single company, having been developed in a standards-making organization.
Likewise, there is no excuse for devices and stores to not support OGG Vorbis.
Really, why wouldn't you want to use a high quality, patent free codec? MP3 and AAC are patent infested, though AAC is slightly better (with mp3 you have to pay to sell mp3s).
Probably at least 90% of those are vulnerable to SQL injection exploits. After all, checking data and using prepared statements or at least "addslashes()" is just "way too complicated".
Well, the worst a gun can do is kill someone. A used CD will deprive a record executive of a few cents. What's more important? The life of a peasant or some extra cash for an executive? Obviously it's the extra cash for the executive. Used cds are theft and must be stopped.
</riaa>
Seriously. If you buy a cds that "only has two good songs", then you're dealing with a band that doesn't deserve any sales. Don't encourage them.
I also use MS Office 2004 on my Mac due to how bad OpenOffice and NeoOffice/J are, but why do you think MS Office on OS X is bad? It's interface is so much nicer than any version released for Windows. I've never encountered an issue with it, everything works as it should. No crashes, either.
I love the formatting pallet, it makes things much easier to deal with. Just take a look.
You mean again?
Veery haard.
If you're sick of image spam, you can do what I did. Add the OpenProtect channel to SpamAssassin and then add these line to your SpamAssassin config:
required_hits 5
score SARE_GIF_ATTACH 5
I don't see image spam any more. I resorted to that after I was getting a hundred or so of them a day.
I used to use VideoDownloader. Though it got frustrating when the majority of the time I tried to use it, I was getting "Server Busy" errors. That's when I found FastVideoDownload. It runs completely in your browser. If you're on YouTube, click it's icon on the status bar and a file dialog pops up for saving the file. It works great.
/var/log/squid/access.log | grep flv" in a terminal and then grab the urls and download them with wget.
For the places it doesn't work, I just keep "tail -f
In contrast with the MP3 format, which requires royalty payments on distributed content, no licenses or payments are required to be able to stream or distribute content in AAC format. This reason alone makes AAC a much more attractive format for distributing content, particularly streaming content (such as Internet radio).
However, a patent license is required for all manufacturers or developers of AAC codecs. It is for this reason FOSS implementations such as FAAC and FAAD are distributed in source form only, in order to avoid patent infringement.
AAC requires a patent license, and thus uses proprietary technology. But contrary to popular belief, it is not the property of a single company, having been developed in a standards-making organization.
I haven't touched Vista since using RC1, but my reaction was: Wow, this sucks.
I'm not touching it again until at least SP1.
You have three options:
1. Buy off-lease.
2. Buy a Mac. You can dual boot with Windows or use Parallels or VMWare.
3. Buy a laptop preloaded with Linux. You can dual boot with Windows or use VMWare (VMWare Server is great for running Windows under Linux).
There's also a forth if you don't care if it's not legal:
4. Use an activation crack. There is a really good open source one that always works and gets past all validation checks.
For the second two, you could just pick up a copy of XP and stick on on. With the first option it'd be included, and you'd get real hardware (ie, no cripplons) at a much lower cost than you'd get something new. Hell, you can get a good off-lease desktop for the retail price of XP Pro.
Photo printers, like all inkjets, are a scam. The companies gouge you for the ink. The quality is piss poor compared to real photos. The photo paper is seriously over priced. The very expensive ink runs and smears when it encounters any moisture. Etc.
I fell for this once, but never again. What I do now is have my digital photos printed. Snapfish does it for $0.15/photo. Walmart does it for $0.12/photo and you can upload it online and pick it up at a local store. What you get is a photo that looks exactly like what you'd get with film. Only you get to do some GIMPing to it first.
It's significantly cheaper doing it this way rather than printing it with a photo printer. I mean, not counting the paper, with $60 worth of ink I was about to print maybe 30 photos. And they looked like ass, plus often the ink would smear before it dried. That's compared to the $27 (shipping was $8 or something) I paid Snapfish for the 180 photos I took on my vacation last summer, all of which look great.
Then run Debian, Firehol, and Squid (transparent).
Fuel should be made from hemp instead. Though the "think of the children" asshats will never allow that to happen.
Something I'm more impressed with is Echo2, which is dual licensed under the LGPL and MPL. Try out the demos. It's possible to do some really cool stuff with it. I started learning it a few days ago, so far it seems really nice.
There is work towards Xen support. Though, Xen doesn't provide a GUI like VMWare or even Qemu so you'd have to run something like VNC to get the display.
Kittie - Funeral for Yesterday
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Otep - The Ascension
Kidneytheives - Zer0space
All of those are solid. Every song on them is worth listening to.
For those of you who keep saying the 2-3 song thing, what type of music is it? Top 40 or similar?
Even the cds I buy after hearing them on radio are solid. Whenever I get something I hear off of Headbanger's Ball it's solid. When I get something I hear off of Hard Attack (Sirius) it's solid.