Google for Portable Firefox and give it a try. Works just fine for me on all the school computers, without the hassles of getting the Microsoftophiles upset.
Actually, what happened was that while the Democrats did file something over it, Sinclair only pulled the show because it brought all kinds of negative press and sent their stock prices into a freefall. They wound up airing a modified show that appeared to be more balanced, although I do know that it later aired as an infomercial on PAX.
I think this is as much a problem with society as anything else.
The article states that the school district did not show what rule was broken exactly, and had no proof of these anti-Semitic remarks they claimed were on this site (not that such things can be outlawed--first amendment).
I am of the belief that this was solely to shut him up. He was criticizing his school district, using his first amendment rights, and so long as he wasn't slandering the school district (or libel, as the case may be), that's tough. However in our society, anyone who says anything at all about anyone else is up for punishment, be it this, suspension and such, or a lawsuit.
The most the school can do is block his site within the school system using filters. IANAL, but from what I gather, their power should end right there. Especially if the site was not being updated from school, as the article indicates.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm glad to see this. I doubt it will help, but who knows, maybe it will allow for other schools to get their acts together.
Of the modded comments, I am surprised that I saw no mention of this!
Does nobody see that this bill is not INTENDED to pass? It is intended to be too extreme to pass, so they'll tone it down to what they really want, which is just the basic broadcast flag, and it won't seem as extreme as it really is.
50 channels at first glance. Then you have to throw out channel 37, as it is not allowed to be used for broadcasts. I think the reason has to do with that frequency being the one where hydrogen resonates and therefore it is used for radio astronomy. If I recall correctly, channel 37's spectrum is protected by treaties worldwide.
We're down to 49. Then, channels 2-6 are nearly worthless for digital television. Some stations are trying to say that channel 6 isn't really "all that bad," but it is, it's just like the rest of those 54MHz-88MHz channels. Between the electrical noise, impulse noise, e-skip, f2-skip, and the weak output power that low-VHF digitals have been granted, it's a complete disaster.
Locally, I have my PBS station on digital channel 3, while the rest are on UHFs (17, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 41). I'll put it like this, the weakest UHF station, WFXR-DT on 17, broadcasting at a whopping 2,970 watts, is more reliable than channel 3, with 7,250 watts. Compare WFXR to the next weakest signal, WJPR-DT, at 186,300 watts, and you see why I'm making a big deal about WFXR being stronger, since it should technically need much more power to be reliable. Channel 3 is useless more than 90% of the time when I try to watch it, which is sad since I watch a lot of PBS. When the analog shutoff occurs, unless channel 3 gets a $1 million infusion FAST, I'm losing PBS because channel 3 is too annoying and unreliable.
So in the end, the spectrum is really closer to 44 channels. And then in the big cities, as many as three UHF channels may be reserved for "land mobile" between 14 and 21, so cut that down even more (in New York, it's 14 and 15, so 16 also has to be left open, in Philly it's 19 and 20, so 18 and 21 have to be left open also).
According to the article, this county has roughly the same population that my county has (my county has a little over 12,000 and no traffic lights, compared to the one in the story with 11,000 and no traffic lights). The only difference is that my county would likely put up a fight over having towers scattered all over the place, regardless of what service they were providing.
This county also blocked a coal-burning power plant, so the people who wanted it moved it 2 miles, just across the county line, and got it built.
And blocked a landfill in a remote section of the county.
I'm not sure that a project like this would face such opposition, especially if the towers could also provide cell phone service (which is also very poor in the county). I know that everyone I talk to that can't currently get high-speed internet is always saying "oh there has got to be a way!" especially considering that the phone lines in much of the county are so old that connections above 28.8kbps (that's a 3K transfer rate) are rare.
I have heard that the school system wants to do something like this, but I know the admin who thought it up, and I don't really want to use something he runs. I heard something about "free but filtered" and I almost said "don't bother" right then and there.
But how much spyware is installed by the user unknowingly, via misleading dialog boxes or other methods in which the user is fooled into installing it? I somehow doubt that would fall under the trespassing rule, due to being allowed in, no matter how sleazy the entry.
I can understand those that are installed without the consent of the user through security holes, but those are a minority of the cases. The overwhelming majority gets in through the user inadvertantly allowing it in.
I believe the extension you are looking for is called FlashBlock. It replaces all flash animations with a little play button and if you wish to see a flash animation, just click it and it loads.
I run Linux also, and used K3B to burn a data CD laid out with standard MP3 files organized into various folders. Works fine.
I wouldn't use the Sony software anyway. It's SO SLOW. I tried to make a CD full of ATRAC3 songs back when I used Windows and the computer wound up sitting there for an hour, getting to about 90 songs out of 285 and telling me there was a fatal error. And this was with their brand new Version 3 program--the Version 1 that I had used before I lost the CD was just as slow but far more stable and easier to use.
I have a Sony D-NF610. It plays in the proprietary ATRAC3 format (requires Windows-only burning software) as well as MP3 files burned to CD (in addition to normal music CDs, obviously). It has an AM/FM/VHF-TV/WeatherBand tuner and gets 50 hour battery life. I've never ever had it skip ever.
If you have any further questions, let me know.
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1. Download the plugin here, and SAVE TO YOUR HARD DRIVE: http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f= unix/rhapx/RhapsodyPlayerEngine_Inst_Linux.xpi
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
2. Open it with Ark or something and copy nprhapengine.so to
3. Restart Firefox.
4. Spoof Firefox 1.5's UA with User Agent Switcher extension to be Firefox 1.0.7 instead:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.0.7
5. Use Rhapsody.
I have used this method to make it work in Mozilla 1.7.2, I don't see why it wouldn't work in Firefox.
Spoofing the User Agent to say 1.0.7 instead of 1.5 made it offer the xpi, and though it says the install was successful, it doesn't actually work...
Okay, I see a few comments about this, maybe someone can actually HELP instead of just insulting.
I'm trying to try this service, but I get this message:
"We're sorry but the combination of your operating system and Firefox 1.5 is not currently supported."
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 - Build ID: 2005111116
Fedora Core 4 (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4).
Any ideas? I already have Real Player 10 installed...
Or, rather, can't afford it. Not everyone's willing to go into massive debt to fight 'the man.'
Google for Portable Firefox and give it a try. Works just fine for me on all the school computers, without the hassles of getting the Microsoftophiles upset.
I think it's a new ripoff of 'The Phantom of the Opera' only with Firefox instead of a phantom.
SNL or Mad TV?
Someone bought TNN, or whatever, and decided to change the format.
That would be Viacom, owners of CBS, UPN, Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, VH-1, etc.
Step 1: Buy DRMed CD off a friend cheap.
Step 2: Return to Sony.
Step 3: Download free MP3s.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: PROFIT!
Actually, what happened was that while the Democrats did file something over it, Sinclair only pulled the show because it brought all kinds of negative press and sent their stock prices into a freefall. They wound up airing a modified show that appeared to be more balanced, although I do know that it later aired as an infomercial on PAX.
Plenty of OTHER systems open Windows for you, I don't think we need another. *ducks*
I think this is as much a problem with society as anything else.
The article states that the school district did not show what rule was broken exactly, and had no proof of these anti-Semitic remarks they claimed were on this site (not that such things can be outlawed--first amendment).
I am of the belief that this was solely to shut him up. He was criticizing his school district, using his first amendment rights, and so long as he wasn't slandering the school district (or libel, as the case may be), that's tough. However in our society, anyone who says anything at all about anyone else is up for punishment, be it this, suspension and such, or a lawsuit.
The most the school can do is block his site within the school system using filters. IANAL, but from what I gather, their power should end right there. Especially if the site was not being updated from school, as the article indicates.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm glad to see this. I doubt it will help, but who knows, maybe it will allow for other schools to get their acts together.
Of the modded comments, I am surprised that I saw no mention of this!
Does nobody see that this bill is not INTENDED to pass? It is intended to be too extreme to pass, so they'll tone it down to what they really want, which is just the basic broadcast flag, and it won't seem as extreme as it really is.
Now maybe some Korean companies (such as DVICO) will make Linux drivers for their products.
Incorrect.
50 channels at first glance. Then you have to throw out channel 37, as it is not allowed to be used for broadcasts. I think the reason has to do with that frequency being the one where hydrogen resonates and therefore it is used for radio astronomy. If I recall correctly, channel 37's spectrum is protected by treaties worldwide.
We're down to 49. Then, channels 2-6 are nearly worthless for digital television. Some stations are trying to say that channel 6 isn't really "all that bad," but it is, it's just like the rest of those 54MHz-88MHz channels. Between the electrical noise, impulse noise, e-skip, f2-skip, and the weak output power that low-VHF digitals have been granted, it's a complete disaster.
Locally, I have my PBS station on digital channel 3, while the rest are on UHFs (17, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 41). I'll put it like this, the weakest UHF station, WFXR-DT on 17, broadcasting at a whopping 2,970 watts, is more reliable than channel 3, with 7,250 watts. Compare WFXR to the next weakest signal, WJPR-DT, at 186,300 watts, and you see why I'm making a big deal about WFXR being stronger, since it should technically need much more power to be reliable. Channel 3 is useless more than 90% of the time when I try to watch it, which is sad since I watch a lot of PBS. When the analog shutoff occurs, unless channel 3 gets a $1 million infusion FAST, I'm losing PBS because channel 3 is too annoying and unreliable.
So in the end, the spectrum is really closer to 44 channels. And then in the big cities, as many as three UHF channels may be reserved for "land mobile" between 14 and 21, so cut that down even more (in New York, it's 14 and 15, so 16 also has to be left open, in Philly it's 19 and 20, so 18 and 21 have to be left open also).
- Trip
But now we'll have to change our "how many x does it take the change a lightbulb" jokes!
/. readers does it take the change a lightbulb? They don't have to because it's LED!"
"How many
According to the article, this county has roughly the same population that my county has (my county has a little over 12,000 and no traffic lights, compared to the one in the story with 11,000 and no traffic lights). The only difference is that my county would likely put up a fight over having towers scattered all over the place, regardless of what service they were providing.
This county also blocked a coal-burning power plant, so the people who wanted it moved it 2 miles, just across the county line, and got it built.
And blocked a landfill in a remote section of the county.
I'm not sure that a project like this would face such opposition, especially if the towers could also provide cell phone service (which is also very poor in the county). I know that everyone I talk to that can't currently get high-speed internet is always saying "oh there has got to be a way!" especially considering that the phone lines in much of the county are so old that connections above 28.8kbps (that's a 3K transfer rate) are rare.
I have heard that the school system wants to do something like this, but I know the admin who thought it up, and I don't really want to use something he runs. I heard something about "free but filtered" and I almost said "don't bother" right then and there.
Crunchy. BZZT! And shocking.
But how much spyware is installed by the user unknowingly, via misleading dialog boxes or other methods in which the user is fooled into installing it? I somehow doubt that would fall under the trespassing rule, due to being allowed in, no matter how sleazy the entry. I can understand those that are installed without the consent of the user through security holes, but those are a minority of the cases. The overwhelming majority gets in through the user inadvertantly allowing it in.
Fox News is free? Where's this? I do not currently get Fox News for free.
Except that most other places use DVB, not ATSC, for digital transmissions. Meaning around the world, those receivers are not compatible.
I believe the extension you are looking for is called FlashBlock. It replaces all flash animations with a little play button and if you wish to see a flash animation, just click it and it loads.
I have US Cellular, a regional carrier, for cell service. I get unlimited incoming while not roaming.
I run Linux also, and used K3B to burn a data CD laid out with standard MP3 files organized into various folders. Works fine.
I wouldn't use the Sony software anyway. It's SO SLOW. I tried to make a CD full of ATRAC3 songs back when I used Windows and the computer wound up sitting there for an hour, getting to about 90 songs out of 285 and telling me there was a fatal error. And this was with their brand new Version 3 program--the Version 1 that I had used before I lost the CD was just as slow but far more stable and easier to use.
I have a Sony D-NF610. It plays in the proprietary ATRAC3 format (requires Windows-only burning software) as well as MP3 files burned to CD (in addition to normal music CDs, obviously). It has an AM/FM/VHF-TV/WeatherBand tuner and gets 50 hour battery life. I've never ever had it skip ever. If you have any further questions, let me know.
I know. The only problem is that I don't have $350 to spend on it. Otherwise, that is exactly what I'm looking for.