This is very interesting. Just yesterday Ira Flatow had both Bruce Perens and Michael Robertson on his show, Science Friday. Bruce is actually a pretty cool guy, I expected him to be more militant and opinionated for some reason. He kind of reminds me of Emo Phillips.
Bruce made a very artful dodge when asked whether Lindows was any good. He basically acknowledged that it was good to have another group working on making Linux better but he diplomatically avoided saying anything good about Lindows.
Example: The annoying beer commercials designed to associate their beer with having fun. I know that's what they are doing, so I know to ignore the commercial.
You must not understand the concept of the subconscious mind. Sure, you can consciously resist these beer commercials but it sounds like these companies are trying to tap into our subconscious minds - which is difficult or impossible to resist.
There's alot going on in our heads beyond the stuff that we're aware of. Advertisers already play to this, but the more they know about the physiology of how our brains work, the more influence they'll have over our purchasing decisions -- whether we realize it or not.
Am I the only one who likes the classic theme? i happen to like it alot. I mostly use Galeon but I am also using the mozilla theme for sawfish so my whole desktop looks like mozilla classic.
Ditch pine for what? What would you recommend people switch to?
Mutt? Elm?
I don't need a graphical MUA that takes up half my screen, doesn't allow me to use vi to compose, makes me take my hand off the keyboard to mouse-click around, AND isn't usable over a telnet/ssh session.
I use pine exclusively and have been doing so since about 1996. I have it configured to use vi as my composer instead of pico. Its powerful, fast, and doesn't take up nearly as much screen real estate as a graphical MUA. Plus one can use it over a telnet/ssh session.
Pine rocks. Maybe one day I'll switch to mutt but pine suits me just fine thank you.
Try and run "killevo" in the console after upgrading. My contacts were unreadable in 1.2 until I killed Evolution completely and restarted.
Just tried it and I still can't start evolution. Error message at the console is "evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: (IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)"
and popup gtk error says
"Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: Configuration database not found"
Too bad evolution has been -- for me -- one of the most unstable apps I've ever used. It breaks due to dependency problems (wombat, bonobo, gconf, etc.) every time I upgrade something via red-carpet. At this moment, I can't even start evolution due to some stupid dependency problem that's not adequately explained in any docs, error messages, or mail lists I've been able to find. I could never recommend it to a friend.
Good thing I prefer pine configured to use vi as its composer anyway.
...you don't have to make it that using Windows is the crime of the century.
Its close. By buying and using Windows you're validating Microsoft's business model. You know, the business model which says its ok to lie, cheat, and do WHATEVER it takes to win the sale, or stay on top.
By supporting this company and this business model you're doing a small part to stifle innovation and generally make the computing industry a less-fun industry to be in. And I resent you for that. Microsoft needs to be sent a message that they can't act like an 800 pound homicidal, rabid gorilla, and that message gets muted by people who continue to support them by buying their products.
I don't find my local NPR affilliate, WBUR in Boston to be slanted at all. It is the most intelligent, thoughtful source of news and discussion I've been able to find ANYWHERE.
Granted they don't have a whole lot of sympathy for the neanderthal conservatism of Bush/Helms etc. but most intelligent people don't either.
90.9 WBUR in Boston is about the only listenable station on my dial, and their Real Audio stream follows me when I'm out of their broadcast range.
If you like Morning Edition and All Things Considered you should really check out The Connection and On Point. Both are news/topical discussion shows that discuss a wide variety of interesting topics with much greater insight than you'll likely find anywhere. I'm also a fan of This American Life.
All of these shows can be streamed over the net either live or time-shifted.
In May of 1990, The Connection, a Boston Radio Show, had 3 venture capitalists (Guy Bradley from CMGI, Ted Dintersmith of Charles River Ventures, and Send.com's Mike Lanon) as guests - and listeners called in and pitched their business plans.
They gave lots of good advice as to how to pitch your ideas, and what VCs are looking for. I would recommend ordering a tape of that show from WBUR in boston. There is a description of the show here: http://www.wbur.org/connection/1999/05/con0524list .html
There is a link on that page so you can order a tape of the show but the link is broken, try to contact them and see if you can get a copy of that show. I think tapes go for $20 or so.
What a decadent waste. The energy used to carry out recreational space travel and 'space hotels' would be better left for future generations to heat their homes and cook their food. If/when man comes up with renewable sources of energy, then maybe we should look into things like this.
Unfortunately, big money will beat out common sense on this one, no doubt.
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Come up with your own set of software projects that change the world as we know it and you can name it *anything* you want.
Thanks for the link.
And thanks for the script. I've used vsound in the past to convert some Real streams to wav then mp3 but I'd forgotten about it. What a great tool.
This is very interesting. Just yesterday Ira Flatow had both Bruce Perens and Michael Robertson on his show, Science Friday . Bruce is actually a pretty cool guy, I expected him to be more militant and opinionated for some reason. He kind of reminds me of Emo Phillips.
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Bruce made a very artful dodge when asked whether Lindows was any good. He basically acknowledged that it was good to have another group working on making Linux better but he diplomatically avoided saying anything good about Lindows.
You can listen to the show in Real format here: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2003/Jan/hour1
Example: The annoying beer commercials designed to associate their beer with having fun. I know that's what they are doing, so I know to ignore the commercial.
You must not understand the concept of the subconscious mind. Sure, you can consciously resist these beer commercials but it sounds like these companies are trying to tap into our subconscious minds - which is difficult or impossible to resist.
There's alot going on in our heads beyond the stuff that we're aware of. Advertisers already play to this, but the more they know about the physiology of how our brains work, the more influence they'll have over our purchasing decisions -- whether we realize it or not.
Uh, hello, try Phoenix. k, thx.
Try galeon, OK? Its a great, fast browser.
Am I the only one who likes the classic theme? i happen to like it alot. I mostly use Galeon but I am also using the mozilla theme for sawfish so my whole desktop looks like mozilla classic.
Ditch pine for what? What would you recommend people switch to?
Mutt? Elm?
I don't need a graphical MUA that takes up half my screen, doesn't allow me to use vi to compose, makes me take my hand off the keyboard to mouse-click around, AND isn't usable over a telnet/ssh session.
Get a life.
I use pine exclusively and have been doing so since about 1996. I have it configured to use vi as my composer instead of pico. Its powerful, fast, and doesn't take up nearly as much screen real estate as a graphical MUA. Plus one can use it over a telnet/ssh session.
Pine rocks. Maybe one day I'll switch to mutt but pine suits me just fine thank you.
Evolution 1.2 for Redhat 6.2 is not up yet on Ximian's ftp site. Are they forsaking 6.2 since its so old?
Try and run "killevo" in the console after upgrading. My contacts were unreadable in 1.2 until I killed Evolution completely and restarted.
Just tried it and I still can't start evolution. Error message at the console is "evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: (IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)"
and popup gtk error says
"Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: Configuration database not found"
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Too bad evolution has been -- for me -- one of the most unstable apps I've ever used. It breaks due to dependency problems (wombat, bonobo, gconf, etc.) every time I upgrade something via red-carpet. At this moment, I can't even start evolution due to some stupid dependency problem that's not adequately explained in any docs, error messages, or mail lists I've been able to find. I could never recommend it to a friend.
Good thing I prefer pine configured to use vi as its composer anyway.
...you don't have to make it that using Windows is the crime of the century.
Its close. By buying and using Windows you're validating Microsoft's business model. You know, the business model which says its ok to lie, cheat, and do WHATEVER it takes to win the sale, or stay on top.
By supporting this company and this business model you're doing a small part to stifle innovation and generally make the computing industry a less-fun industry to be in. And I resent you for that. Microsoft needs to be sent a message that they can't act like an 800 pound homicidal, rabid gorilla, and that message gets muted by people who continue to support them by buying their products.
I don't find my local NPR affilliate, WBUR in Boston to be slanted at all. It is the most intelligent, thoughtful source of news and discussion I've been able to find ANYWHERE.
Granted they don't have a whole lot of sympathy for the neanderthal conservatism of Bush/Helms etc. but most intelligent people don't either.
90.9 WBUR in Boston is about the only listenable station on my dial, and their Real Audio stream follows me when I'm out of their broadcast range.
If you like Morning Edition and All Things Considered you should really check out The Connection and On Point. Both are news/topical discussion shows that discuss a wide variety of interesting topics with much greater insight than you'll likely find anywhere. I'm also a fan of This American Life.
All of these shows can be streamed over the net either live or time-shifted.
In May of 1990, The Connection, a Boston Radio Show, had 3 venture capitalists (Guy Bradley from CMGI, Ted Dintersmith of Charles River Ventures, and Send.com's Mike Lanon) as guests - and listeners called in and pitched their business plans.
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They gave lots of good advice as to how to pitch your ideas, and what VCs are looking for. I would recommend ordering a tape of that show from WBUR in boston. There is a description of the show here: http://www.wbur.org/connection/1999/05/con0524lis
There is a link on that page so you can order a tape of the show but the link is broken, try to contact them and see if you can get a copy of that show. I think tapes go for $20 or so.
What a decadent waste. The energy used to carry out recreational space travel and 'space hotels' would be better left for future generations to heat their homes and cook their food. If/when man comes up with renewable sources of energy, then maybe we should look into things like this.
Unfortunately, big money will beat out common sense on this one, no doubt.
URL? Share the wealth, man.