Apple has ported an application with a universally lauded user interface to Windows with nary a change to be seen. Windows users now have the opportunity to use one of the finest user interfaces currently available. They've got no business complaining that it's lame because it doesn't suck in the ways they're accustomed to.
Learn to do things in a better way.
Your better way isn't my better way. I expect all the applications to be consistent in their appearance and function when I use a computer.
The Mac OS and the QuickTime APIs have no concept of a "Multiple Document Interface" as Microsoft calls it.
That's fantastic but MDI has nothing to do with maximizing a window. The point he was making is that Apple isn't following the windowing conventions of the target window manager. Mac users bitch and moan when Windows apps are ported to the Mac but don't follow the Mac UI look and feel. Now Apple ports Mac software to windows and windows users bitch that it doesn't work like a windows app (and rightly so). Oh well, ya can't please everyone. (and how hypocrytical of Apple)
I wonder if it's worth putting effort into distributing an e-book cracking program when e-books are falling out of style.
Yes. If they are falling out of style then that is even more of a reason to have a program like this. So that people can protect their investments. If ebooks fall out of style and no one makes software to read these anymore, what do you do when your device to read your ebooks breaks and you can't replace it? At least with this software the ebooks can be converted into other forms.
I don't know how many of theaters have these, but the new theater [megastarcinemas.com] opened up ~18 months ago near us. It has a VIP room with Fat Leather Recliners, separate sound system and private, close bathrooms. $200 for 16 seats. Definatley might be worth it for something like this.
Are they still going to show you ads before the movie in that room?
Why don't you look into a folding bicycle? I see people with them on the train all the time and you can get one for about $200. Maybe less used. They'll fold up small enough to carry if you need to. Here in San Francisco folding bikes are allowed on the trains at all times (if they are folded up) as opposed to regular bikes which aren't allowed during rush hours.
I just noticed that VeriSign owns Thawte, who I used to get two secure certificates. My renewal is coming up and they're emailing me to renew. That's $300 each for a two year renewal. $600 total. So I'm going to get new certificates for those domains from someone else.
What convinced me that this was the right course of action is that Thawte's slogan is "It's a trust thing." Well, yeah, it is and VeriSign has shown that it can't be trusted. So I guess I'll give my money to someone else.
I understand perfectly. It's a poor design decision on archive.org's part. That's still a problem with Archive.org not with Verisign. Let's extend your analogy and take Verisign completely out of the picture:
4. Someone new registers ReallyCoolSite.com and puts up their own, different content. They disallow all in their robots.txt.
5. The archive.org spider goes to check ReallyCoolSite.com. Where before it would have gotten a NXDOMAIN error and stopped there, it now sees a site and this new site has a robots.txt that says "go away all robots." It has no way of knowing that this new site is not the same as the older ReallyCoolSite.com that it archived years ago, and so it removes all links to its archived copies of ReallyCoolSite.com, as it thought that ReallyCoolSite.com has now changed its robots.txt policy.
So now you are denied access to older content that was archived because a new site appeared with the same name. This is a bad policy decision on the part of archive.org.
What verisign is doing is wrong, but the fault in this particular situation is with archive.org. You need to talk to them if you think their way of handling this is wrong.
Archive.org is broken in this situation. Archive.org shouldn't be checking a current robots.txt to show me an older web site. What does todays robot.txt have to do with a web site from a year or two ago? Answer: nothing.
Archive.org should have read and respected the robots.txt of the site at the time it archived it.
"I did a lot of the vocal edits on a plane," said BT. "I cut and pieced the vocal together. There's something like 2,000 or 3,000 edits in that three-minute song, and I did that sitting on a plane."
2,000 vocal edits? Wow, NSync must really suck as singers. Seriously.
Isn't it enough of a victory for the profession that they have used an academically based operating system rather than a commercial one?
No. They are in violation of the license. Companies are going to have to realize that they cannot violate the intellectual property of others. By using the Linux kernel they agreed to the license and must now abide by it or be in violation of the law.
So they are in violation. Who the fawk is actually going to DO anything other then sign statements and generally complain. WE NEED SOMEONE TO TAKE THEM TO COURT!
It's not wise to rush to court. The courts don't look favourably on people who do that. Instead, the LK & Samba teams are doing the right thing by trying to resolve this matter directly with Linksys. At some point if this does go to court, the fact that several attempts at resolution were made before filing suit will work in our favour.
These storage systems are just JBOD and they'll sell you RAID software but it only does 0 or 1. RAID0 is fine as scratch space for video editors but it's playing Russian Roulette for data you want to keep. Their only option for redundancy seems to be 4 pairs of RAID1 (in the 8 bay tower). If you get the 200GB drives that's 800GB of storage. You'd probably be better off using Linux (or Windows Server) and using the OS's RAID5 for 1400GB capacity.
Well, the RAID software that it comes with sucks but you don't need it. It's easy to set up software RAID for the drive under Unix or Windows. I'm using mine mirrored under Linux at home.
Since it uses software RAID I think it spoils it's primary appeal, the ability to be detached and attached to another computer.
Really, how often are you going to do that? There are cheap firewire and USB hard drives available for moving large amounts of data between computers. Also my suggestion was in line with what the submitter was asking for. Something with onboard RAID hardware is going to cost $5k or more. He wanted something with an "affordable prosumer price tag" which is what this is.
I was in the same position as you. Look at the drive systems from FireWire Direct. I got one of those HSB Series with two 250GB drives and it works great. It was a little over $1100 with shipping. They make them up to 2TB and you can order online.
Because the Mirra server is built on a Linux software platform, the files stored on the appliance should be safe from worms and viruses that attack Windows-based servers
Don't fool yourself. Files can be deleted from a network share as easily as they are from a local drive. Just because the OS is secure doesn't mean that you won't lose all your data because of some virus on your Windows machine.
Because with fantasy I can pretend I'm free rather than look forward into the dismally litigated and patented technological future that stands before me.
I've filled it up. I have the older 20Gb iPod. My MP3 library is a little over 47GB. All ripped from my own CDs and legal downloads from artists that share free MP3s of their music. 8910 files total.
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Tomcat is pretty slow in general. Why don't you try Resin?
What about photo.net?
There's some lively discussion on this topic here.
Why don't you look into a folding bicycle? I see people with them on the train all the time and you can get one for about $200. Maybe less used. They'll fold up small enough to carry if you need to. Here in San Francisco folding bikes are allowed on the trains at all times (if they are folded up) as opposed to regular bikes which aren't allowed during rush hours.
What convinced me that this was the right course of action is that Thawte's slogan is "It's a trust thing." Well, yeah, it is and VeriSign has shown that it can't be trusted. So I guess I'll give my money to someone else.
In other news, the RIAA is replacing all their songs with white noise.
4. Someone new registers ReallyCoolSite.com and puts up their own, different content. They disallow all in their robots.txt.
5. The archive.org spider goes to check ReallyCoolSite.com. Where before it would have gotten a NXDOMAIN error and stopped there, it now sees a site and this new site has a robots.txt that says "go away all robots." It has no way of knowing that this new site is not the same as the older ReallyCoolSite.com that it archived years ago, and so it removes all links to its archived copies of ReallyCoolSite.com, as it thought that ReallyCoolSite.com has now changed its robots.txt policy.
So now you are denied access to older content that was archived because a new site appeared with the same name. This is a bad policy decision on the part of archive.org.
What verisign is doing is wrong, but the fault in this particular situation is with archive.org. You need to talk to them if you think their way of handling this is wrong.
Archive.org should have read and respected the robots.txt of the site at the time it archived it.
Froogle.google.com already does this and has been working for well over a year. Once again Google is ahead of the curve.
I was in the same position as you. Look at the drive systems from FireWire Direct. I got one of those HSB Series with two 250GB drives and it works great. It was a little over $1100 with shipping. They make them up to 2TB and you can order online.
Just a guess.
I've filled it up. I have the older 20Gb iPod. My MP3 library is a little over 47GB. All ripped from my own CDs and legal downloads from artists that share free MP3s of their music. 8910 files total.