I have to say your comment is very ignorant, specially because you are form the island, you should know how some things are just tourist traps. But there is a lot of things to do at the radar if you know how to look at it. For example, there is this nature tourist group called Aventuras Tierra Adentro (Adventures in the Motherland), that will take you around, and under the radar, not only seeing the technological wonder the Observatory is, but how it was constructed, why they chose the Arecibo Valley to place its location and more importantly how has the vegetation and fauna of the area has been affected by its presence.
More importantly why is the observatory so important to Science, and how powerful the observatory really is compared to other radio telescopes.
Further more, I don't know where you went, but the museum on the top of the hill inside the observatory has the basic information for the radar. There is a movie theater where they run a documentary of the radar, its location and how it was constructed. Also the discoveries they have made using the Radar are displayed in the museum. The old radio equipment they are exhibiting there goes to show what they were using back in the day to do what the radar does now. Aside from that, the radar received an overhaul recently. Its actual transmiting time of information towards outerspace is of minutes and the retrieval of data is also in minutes compared to the observatory in New Mexico which takes 12 hours to receive or send any kind of data to outerspace.
Granted the observatory is not a place to take 30 family members with noisy children. Its a hike, and if you are not in shape, granted you will need a breather when you get on top. But it is not a bad experience or one that makes you feel you wasted your time going to. It is located in a beautiful valley, lots of nice restaurants around, great view, the trip is not so bad and if you finish early, you can always head out for the West Coast and have some Mojitos and seafood in Rincon.;)
I can tell you all this because I recently (from oct 16 to oct 31 2007) went to Puerto Rico and took my fiancee with me. She is North American and she was fascinated with the radar and how impressive it is. She is not as big of a Nerd/Geek like I am, but she was able to appreciate the wonder it is.
You should be proud this technological wonder is sitting in the mountains of the country you love so much. To me its always been one of those things that should be considered a Wonder of the World, because its simply humbles you as a human being to look at one of the modern marvels we have constructed in our time.
Or you are not as much of a Science Nut as you think you are...:o
Ok so Drobo (www.drobo.com) is not a true NAS, but it just works so fine that its worth the investment, and it works perfectly accross environments (macosx, winblows, linux, etc).
Drobo combines up to four hard drives into a big pool of protected storage. Start with two, grow to four, then upsize smaller drives-get Terabytes of protection.
Just connect Drobo to your Mac or PC. No RAID levels. No management or configuration. Drobo does everything for you. Get rid of multiple external drives. Avoid the complexity of RAID. Attach a Drobo storage robot to your system and let it manage your storage so you don't have to.
Add drives to Drobo at any time. Mix 'n match capacities, brands or speeds. No downtime, data migration, or waiting to access new capacity. Drobo works the way you do.
Hard drives get bigger and cheaper all the time. Don't buy storage capacity until you need it. Buy capacity "just-in-time" possibly saving you hundreds of dollars.
My TimeMachine Drive is a Drobo unit. It just works... I dont have to worry about anything... At work we bought a Drobo unit to try it out as an IT unit for storing images for our rapid deployment. We have never had an issue. I know the company that makes Drobo is in the works of building a NAS. Maybe you dont need a Nas... you should give Drobo a whirl.
I am from Puerto Rico. And it has been my absolute favorite technological wonder mankind has ever built. I dont know how many of you have actually seen it. It is simply amazing. I used to go there since I was a kid around the age of 16... I started going with my father at least 1 weekend a month, then with my boyscout troop we would do a hike that would end in the forest next to the radar. I even had the opportunity once to go where the radar itself is, in that dwindling pendulum up above the Dish. A lot of people have had to see it from the "tourist trap" point of view from the top of the observatory road. But as a boyscout we found a way around that sits us right on the dish. The thing is huge, and the 3 towers that hold the antenna's are simply impressive.
One of the most interesting things I admire about it, is that Puerto Rico has the worst hurricane season's ever, and that thing has hold several Cat 5 hurricanes without having a glitch damaged.
Cmdr Taco should defenitely go see it before its shutdown and abandoned... In fact he should organize a slashdot tour and while the tour guide is explaining mumbo jumbo, someone should connect a linux terminal somewhere and use it to transmit some slashdot to outerspace...:) that or use the dish for some gnarly skatebording contest...;)
Jokes aside, I am really sad they are loosing funding. US Government should end their investment in the stupid war and drop some money in science for a change... I bet a whatever 1 month costs Congress the war, would put the observatory running for another 5 years or more.
PS. There is a village about 5 miles behind the observartory where they make the meanest Skirt Steak you can eat and one of the meanest moonshines you could drink...:)
Did you realize that you can transfer all your virtual games into a memory card on the wii? if the console died you could replace it with a new one and just transfer the games back inside. Or just download them in the external sd card. that is what i did when i broke up with my previous gf and she decided to keep the console, so i transfered the games to an sd card and bought a new one... now i still can play my virtualconsole games.
Why if Blizzard can have WoW run on PPC and Mac Intel, CCP does a half assed baked job and only ports it to Intel Macs. Why do I have to ditch my quad core PPC G5 to just play one game because the company wasn't intuitive enough to port it in universal format. Screw that. I'll keep playing wow but im not going to run to the apple store and buy a mac mini or an imac when my machine has suficient cpu power to run Eve...
This is a half assed job... im happy for the rest of the mac community who will be able to play this awesome game, but im pissed off CCP didnt have the balls to go all the way...
Jennifer L. Pariser Firm: Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. Law Dept. Address: 550 Madison Ave 15th Fl New York, NY 10022-3211 Phone: (212) 833-7362 Email:
They are going to sell it at $30/per GB. Now lets do the math: 649GB * $30 = $19470....
With that amount of money I buy a Mac Pro with 8 Cores and a 1Tb Raid or a 1TB San.... I think Solid State has to grow cheaper before we consumers can jump the gun at it... but, like hard drives back when they made the jump to GB, it will be awesome to see SolidState HD in systems, better then the clunky magnetic disks we currently use...
Even for a corporation telling them a 649Gb Solution is going to cost them $20K they will flip you for it.
Ok folks, here it is. Demonoid is down. It has been for around 1 day 2 hours. The reason is down is unkown. It hasnt been RAIDed, shutdown, terminated, deleted, burned, mamed, or thrown under a bridge. There have been speculation as demonoid.com whereabouts. Well the rurmors are false. A no name site in Netherlands has a blog about Demonoid.com being down. As I don't speak douche, I can not translate. However TorrentFreak Decided upon there own free will to further spread this and rumors. Torrent freak has known to be a sleazy site they post false rumors and hope they turn out true. They do this in order for money and popularity. Quite sad isn't it. To prove this is quite easy:
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:00.54] (( [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:00.54].. Query with (ernesto)/(~info@P2PNET-41E95253.groni1.gr.home.nl) opened on (Tuesday, September 25th 2007, 18:00:54). [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:00.54].. Total queries: (40)/(~0.7 per day) [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:00.54].. Queries today: (1) [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:00.54].. Common channels: (+#demonoid) [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:00.54] (( [05:26] *seanap* [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:00.54] (ernesto) hi [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:01.01] (ernesto) it's ernesto from TF [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:01.05] (seanap) hello [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:01.27] (ernesto) brb 1 min [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:01.28] (seanap) are you part of the staff there? [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:02.01] (ernesto) I'm the staff [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:02.03] (ernesto) hehe [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:02.32] (seanap) that article is completely false. [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:02.39] (ernesto) well, I based my story on a respectable source [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:02.47] (ernesto) but I doubted it [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:02.55] (ernesto) so what's going on then? [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:03.05] (seanap) there hasn't been word yet [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:03.44] (seanap) the 2 IRC ops that are usually in contact with Deimos haven't been around [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:03.45] (ernesto) last time demonoid staff said it were hw problems you relocated to CAN [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:04.11] (ernesto) they said my story was false then too [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:04.20] (ernesto) but it turned out not to be [05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:04.46] (seanap) well i'm saying we as site and IRC staff haven't heard anything.. and we'd be the first people to hear [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:05.18] (ernesto) perhaps Deimos doesn't know it? [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:05.21] (ernesto) yet [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:05.28] (seanap) so i don't think you should be reporting unconfirmed things, the IRC is going insane.. almost double the amount of users in a day [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:05.32] (ernesto) that was exactly how it happened last time [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:06.04] (ernesto) nu.nl is the biggest news source in NL [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:06.12] (ernesto) they might have inside info [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:06.21] (seanap) form who?! we are the inside [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:06.22] (ernesto) from the isp or the CRIA [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:06.41] (ernesto) the ISP probably firewalled the servers [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:06.52] (ernesto) after some seriuos legal threats [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:07.04] (ernesto) it's not unlikely [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:07.16] (seanap) no its not, but it's not.. confirmed [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:07.31] (ernesto) as long as you can't explain what's happening this is all I have [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:07.16] (seanap) no its not, but it's not.. confirmed [05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:07.31] (ernesto) as long as you can't explain what's happening this i
One of those fat security guards had too much pamplinas to eat, farted and caused a new chain of food poisoning effects... Sure lets blame it on the meteorite...
If "El Jobso" was CEO over there he would turnthe company around like he did with Apple...
On a more serious note, though ever since Linux jumped into the fray, everyone has had to evolution their products to compete with open source, I hate to say it but even Microsoft has had to evolute into different models in order to be able to compete. Sun, SGI, Red Hat, Slackware and many other distro's have had to create something new in order to attract more users to their efforts. If they would have done that, instead of suing everyone for a desperate catch of money, they would be doing better.
Suck it up Butter Cup...
Ps. I was kidding about "El Jobso" leave him at Apple...:)
Good afternoon, as of this week, Microsoft has activated a function in Vista called 'Reduced Functionality.' This is a specific function in Vista that effectively disables nongenuine copies of Windows. Therefore anyone who has a pirated copy of Vista will experience:
I feel the same way... uTorrent is perfect on Windows, a good alternative on OSX is Transmission. I used to use Azureus and since it got bundled with that crap beta thing they did it sucks. Then I switched to XTorrent, which in idea it sounds good, but it sucks as well. Later on I got so frustrated I tried other torrent apps for Mac like:
Tomato Torrent is a very plain alternative, seriously lacking in eye-candy and begging for a new icon (and maybe a new name too). It's based on the official BitTorrent client. I think it desrves a mention because I know a few people who swear by it. It comes with an AppleScript file that you can place in folders you want to download to. When you want to download a torrent to a specific folder, you just drag the.torrent file onto the piece of AppleScript to initiate the transfer. One pro is that it's an extremely light client that hogs very little RAM. It's the closet thing to uTorrent on the Mac.
Bits on Wheels is a slightly out-dated (last updated Sep. '05), yet popular Mac BitTorrent client. It claims to be "the first 100% native BitTorrent client for the Macintosh" as it is written in Objective-C and Cocoa. Bits on Wheels is freeware but not Open Source. One of its main features is a visual 3D Swarm with which you can observe what's actually going on under the hood, how many seeders and leechers you're connected to and the bits transferring between everyone. Bits on Wheels is very OSeXy (heh!), it's how I'd imagine the default OS X BitTorrent downloader to look if there was one. bits on wheels sawrmIf not to use the first native OS X B.T. client, I'd download it just to fly around in 3D chasing bits.
And lets not forget the grandaddy of them all, Bram Cohen's self-titled BitTorrent application. It's gotten kind of confusing since he named the protocol, his company and his application all BitTorrent. BitTorrent OSX is a very (and I mean very) basic application. It's as feature-full as Safari's download box and that's not saying much. Now some people wouldn't mind something like that, but if you're looking for simplicity Transmission is a much better choice. BitTorrent OSX also takes an age to start up on my MacBook Pro.
Transmission is my current Mac B.T. client of choice. TransmissionIt's an Open Source project, maintained by the developer of the popular Mac DVD ripping application, HandBrake. Transmission does its job well. A neat feature it offers is the ability to view download and upload rates in the dock, so I don't even have to open up the program to check how my downloads are going. Another great thing Transmission does is copy the.torrent file to its support folder, then trash the original file from my desktop thereby leaving no mess of files behind for me to clean up. Now just like everything Transmission has its flaws, the biggest of which is that Demonoid, a leading BitTorrent directory has banned it on ocassion! They say it doesn't adhere to set standards.
For the different torrent apps I mentioned here you can go to:
I have been reading with interest. Back in the day, I used to work in a CompUSA Store back in San Juan, PR about 5 yrs ago. Being one of the managers of the store I was good friends with the LP Manager. During our many conversations I remember him explaining how LP could intercept and check a guy they thought had "stolen" something:
I don't know how CC operates their LP issues, but in my CompUSA Store there were over 22 cameras above in the celing, and there was always an LP Guard, positioned at the monitors looking around. When they found someone who had the possibility of being a shoplifter, they would inform the LP person on the floor, and this person who is dressed as a civilian, would check them out. If the person was cleared, they kept an eye on him, but usually moved to another target. Unless they had visual knowledge (ie: "They saw the guy snuck in an ink cartridge under his shirt"), they would not make the move of intercepting him on the door of the store, where they would ask him for his receipt (and while this was happening, a cop had been called to the scene and awaited in the warehouse where the LP Office was located). Then they would ask the person to follow them to the warehouse and showed him the video where it would show him "stealing" the ink cartridge. If he admitted the fault, the store would either ban him from entering the store again or press charges. The cops would take it from there.
After this brief example, and after reading his article in his site and the comments here I have to point out that the manager or the LP Manager, should have checked the video cameras, before they decided to press on the guy. That way the store would have been covered with their "policy". It doesnt seem this step was done. Hence the store took a big chance in being "wrong" (and they were wrong). This is another point Mr. Righi could use to argue his case. "The store has security cameras, show me the video where I stole something..."
There is defenitely something fishy going on and by the comment of the supposed employee that just posted here stating that cop was a regular over there, he was biased against the customer towards the manager. Maybe the manager hooked him up with a free Plasma TV... Who knows. But the cameras issue should be addressed as a way to prove the store acted outside of their security policy, aside from the rest of civil rights brokern during this event.
That will happen until OS X launches leopard, then we will see an increase on the amount of people browsing, the web, again it wont be a huge number but it wil lincrease the lead. People are afraid to enjoy the internet, because of all the security problems windows vista has... That is my guess...
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And you call yourself a SCIENCE NUT? Tras que ignorante no eres Nerd un carajo... Jajaja que mamon..
Otro Puertorro ignorante...
;)
:o
I have to say your comment is very ignorant, specially because you are form the island, you should know how some things are just tourist traps. But there is a lot of things to do at the radar if you know how to look at it. For example, there is this nature tourist group called Aventuras Tierra Adentro (Adventures in the Motherland), that will take you around, and under the radar, not only seeing the technological wonder the Observatory is, but how it was constructed, why they chose the Arecibo Valley to place its location and more importantly how has the vegetation and fauna of the area has been affected by its presence.
More importantly why is the observatory so important to Science, and how powerful the observatory really is compared to other radio telescopes.
Further more, I don't know where you went, but the museum on the top of the hill inside the observatory has the basic information for the radar. There is a movie theater where they run a documentary of the radar, its location and how it was constructed. Also the discoveries they have made using the Radar are displayed in the museum. The old radio equipment they are exhibiting there goes to show what they were using back in the day to do what the radar does now. Aside from that, the radar received an overhaul recently. Its actual transmiting time of information towards outerspace is of minutes and the retrieval of data is also in minutes compared to the observatory in New Mexico which takes 12 hours to receive or send any kind of data to outerspace.
Granted the observatory is not a place to take 30 family members with noisy children. Its a hike, and if you are not in shape, granted you will need a breather when you get on top. But it is not a bad experience or one that makes you feel you wasted your time going to. It is located in a beautiful valley, lots of nice restaurants around, great view, the trip is not so bad and if you finish early, you can always head out for the West Coast and have some Mojitos and seafood in Rincon.
I can tell you all this because I recently (from oct 16 to oct 31 2007) went to Puerto Rico and took my fiancee with me. She is North American and she was fascinated with the radar and how impressive it is. She is not as big of a Nerd/Geek like I am, but she was able to appreciate the wonder it is.
You should be proud this technological wonder is sitting in the mountains of the country you love so much. To me its always been one of those things that should be considered a Wonder of the World, because its simply humbles you as a human being to look at one of the modern marvels we have constructed in our time.
Or you are not as much of a Science Nut as you think you are...
Ok so Drobo (www.drobo.com) is not a true NAS, but it just works so fine that its worth the investment, and it works perfectly accross environments (macosx, winblows, linux, etc).
Drobo combines up to four hard drives into a big pool of protected storage. Start with two, grow to four, then upsize smaller drives-get Terabytes of protection.
Just connect Drobo to your Mac or PC. No RAID levels. No management or configuration. Drobo does everything for you. Get rid of multiple external drives. Avoid the complexity of RAID. Attach a Drobo storage robot to your system and let it manage your storage so you don't have to.
Add drives to Drobo at any time. Mix 'n match capacities, brands or speeds. No downtime, data migration, or waiting to access new capacity. Drobo works the way you do.
Hard drives get bigger and cheaper all the time. Don't buy storage capacity until you need it. Buy capacity "just-in-time" possibly saving you hundreds of dollars.
My TimeMachine Drive is a Drobo unit. It just works... I dont have to worry about anything... At work we bought a Drobo unit to try it out as an IT unit for storing images for our rapid deployment. We have never had an issue. I know the company that makes Drobo is in the works of building a NAS. Maybe you dont need a Nas... you should give Drobo a whirl.
I am from Puerto Rico. And it has been my absolute favorite technological wonder mankind has ever built. I dont know how many of you have actually seen it. It is simply amazing. I used to go there since I was a kid around the age of 16... I started going with my father at least 1 weekend a month, then with my boyscout troop we would do a hike that would end in the forest next to the radar. I even had the opportunity once to go where the radar itself is, in that dwindling pendulum up above the Dish. A lot of people have had to see it from the "tourist trap" point of view from the top of the observatory road. But as a boyscout we found a way around that sits us right on the dish. The thing is huge, and the 3 towers that hold the antenna's are simply impressive.
:) that or use the dish for some gnarly skatebording contest... ;)
:)
One of the most interesting things I admire about it, is that Puerto Rico has the worst hurricane season's ever, and that thing has hold several Cat 5 hurricanes without having a glitch damaged.
Cmdr Taco should defenitely go see it before its shutdown and abandoned... In fact he should organize a slashdot tour and while the tour guide is explaining mumbo jumbo, someone should connect a linux terminal somewhere and use it to transmit some slashdot to outerspace...
Jokes aside, I am really sad they are loosing funding. US Government should end their investment in the stupid war and drop some money in science for a change... I bet a whatever 1 month costs Congress the war, would put the observatory running for another 5 years or more.
PS. There is a village about 5 miles behind the observartory where they make the meanest Skirt Steak you can eat and one of the meanest moonshines you could drink...
its prolly a windows thing...
Is the rootkit horde or alliance?
whixh sate is this so we never move there?
Did you realize that you can transfer all your virtual games into a memory card on the wii? if the console died you could replace it with a new one and just transfer the games back inside. Or just download them in the external sd card. that is what i did when i broke up with my previous gf and she decided to keep the console, so i transfered the games to an sd card and bought a new one... now i still can play my virtualconsole games.
Why if Blizzard can have WoW run on PPC and Mac Intel, CCP does a half assed baked job and only ports it to Intel Macs. Why do I have to ditch my quad core PPC G5 to just play one game because the company wasn't intuitive enough to port it in universal format. Screw that. I'll keep playing wow but im not going to run to the apple store and buy a mac mini or an imac when my machine has suficient cpu power to run Eve...
This is a half assed job... im happy for the rest of the mac community who will be able to play this awesome game, but im pissed off CCP didnt have the balls to go all the way...
K.
So someone should let her know of that:
Jennifer L. Pariser
Firm: Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. Law Dept.
Address: 550 Madison Ave 15th Fl New York, NY 10022-3211
Phone: (212) 833-7362
Email:
PS. In case you are wondering, or she is, her info is available on: http://pview.findlaw.com/view/1755781_1
they are charging $30 per Gb, so lets see 649Gb will be a measly $19470
They are going to sell it at $30/per GB. Now lets do the math: 649GB * $30 = $19470....
With that amount of money I buy a Mac Pro with 8 Cores and a 1Tb Raid or a 1TB San.... I think Solid State has to grow cheaper before we consumers can jump the gun at it... but, like hard drives back when they made the jump to GB, it will be awesome to see SolidState HD in systems, better then the clunky magnetic disks we currently use...
Even for a corporation telling them a 649Gb Solution is going to cost them $20K they will flip you for it.
Demonoid shit:
.. Query with (ernesto)/(~info@P2PNET-41E95253.groni1.gr.home.nl) opened on (Tuesday, September 25th 2007, 18:00:54). .. Total queries: (40)/(~0.7 per day) .. Queries today: (1) .. Common channels: (+#demonoid)
Ok folks, here it is. Demonoid is down. It has been for around 1 day 2 hours. The reason is down is unkown. It hasnt been RAIDed, shutdown, terminated, deleted, burned, mamed, or thrown under a bridge. There have been speculation as demonoid.com whereabouts. Well the rurmors are false. A no name site in Netherlands has a blog about Demonoid.com being down. As I don't speak douche, I can not translate. However TorrentFreak Decided upon there own free will to further spread this and rumors. Torrent freak has known to be a sleazy site they post false rumors and hope they turn out true. They do this in order for money and popularity. Quite sad isn't it. To prove this is quite easy:
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[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:00.54] (ernesto) hi
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:01.01] (ernesto) it's ernesto from TF
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:01.05] (seanap) hello
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:01.27] (ernesto) brb 1 min
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:01.28] (seanap) are you part of the staff there?
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:02.01] (ernesto) I'm the staff
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:02.03] (ernesto) hehe
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:02.32] (seanap) that article is completely false.
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:02.39] (ernesto) well, I based my story on a respectable source
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:02.47] (ernesto) but I doubted it
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:02.55] (ernesto) so what's going on then?
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:03.05] (seanap) there hasn't been word yet
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:03.44] (seanap) the 2 IRC ops that are usually in contact with Deimos haven't been around
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:03.45] (ernesto) last time demonoid staff said it were hw problems you relocated to CAN
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:04.11] (ernesto) they said my story was false then too
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:04.20] (ernesto) but it turned out not to be
[05:26] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:04.46] (seanap) well i'm saying we as site and IRC staff haven't heard anything.. and we'd be the first people to hear
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:05.18] (ernesto) perhaps Deimos doesn't know it?
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:05.21] (ernesto) yet
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:05.28] (seanap) so i don't think you should be reporting unconfirmed things, the IRC is going insane.. almost double the amount of users in a day
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:05.32] (ernesto) that was exactly how it happened last time
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:06.04] (ernesto) nu.nl is the biggest news source in NL
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:06.12] (ernesto) they might have inside info
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:06.21] (seanap) form who?! we are the inside
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:06.22] (ernesto) from the isp or the CRIA
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:06.41] (ernesto) the ISP probably firewalled the servers
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:06.52] (ernesto) after some seriuos legal threats
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:07.04] (ernesto) it's not unlikely
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:07.16] (seanap) no its not, but it's not.. confirmed
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:07.31] (ernesto) as long as you can't explain what's happening this is all I have
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:07.16] (seanap) no its not, but it's not.. confirmed
[05:27] *seanap* [09/25/07 - 18:07.31] (ernesto) as long as you can't explain what's happening this i
Barrens Velociraptors, and most of them found through Azeroth have feathers too. Are these types related or they are distant cousins.
One of those fat security guards had too much pamplinas to eat, farted and caused a new chain of food poisoning effects... Sure lets blame it on the meteorite...
If "El Jobso" was CEO over there he would turnthe company around like he did with Apple...
:)
On a more serious note, though ever since Linux jumped into the fray, everyone has had to evolution their products to compete with open source, I hate to say it but even Microsoft has had to evolute into different models in order to be able to compete. Sun, SGI, Red Hat, Slackware and many other distro's have had to create something new in order to attract more users to their efforts. If they would have done that, instead of suing everyone for a desperate catch of money, they would be doing better.
Suck it up Butter Cup...
Ps. I was kidding about "El Jobso" leave him at Apple...
Good afternoon, as of this week, Microsoft has activated a function in Vista called 'Reduced Functionality.' This is a specific function in Vista that effectively disables nongenuine copies of Windows. Therefore anyone who has a pirated copy of Vista will experience:
"The Need to move to Mac OS X"
because i dont want to use webmail? because the iphone can do it?
I feel the same way... uTorrent is perfect on Windows, a good alternative on OSX is Transmission. I used to use Azureus and since it got bundled with that crap beta thing they did it sucks. Then I switched to XTorrent, which in idea it sounds good, but it sucks as well. Later on I got so frustrated I tried other torrent apps for Mac like:
.torrent file onto the piece of AppleScript to initiate the transfer. One pro is that it's an extremely light client that hogs very little RAM. It's the closet thing to uTorrent on the Mac.
.torrent file to its support folder, then trash the original file from my desktop thereby leaving no mess of files behind for me to clean up. Now just like everything Transmission has its flaws, the biggest of which is that Demonoid, a leading BitTorrent directory has banned it on ocassion! They say it doesn't adhere to set standards.
Tomato Torrent is a very plain alternative, seriously lacking in eye-candy and begging for a new icon (and maybe a new name too). It's based on the official BitTorrent client. I think it desrves a mention because I know a few people who swear by it. It comes with an AppleScript file that you can place in folders you want to download to. When you want to download a torrent to a specific folder, you just drag the
Bits on Wheels is a slightly out-dated (last updated Sep. '05), yet popular Mac BitTorrent client. It claims to be "the first 100% native BitTorrent client for the Macintosh" as it is written in Objective-C and Cocoa. Bits on Wheels is freeware but not Open Source. One of its main features is a visual 3D Swarm with which you can observe what's actually going on under the hood, how many seeders and leechers you're connected to and the bits transferring between everyone. Bits on Wheels is very OSeXy (heh!), it's how I'd imagine the default OS X BitTorrent downloader to look if there was one. bits on wheels sawrmIf not to use the first native OS X B.T. client, I'd download it just to fly around in 3D chasing bits.
And lets not forget the grandaddy of them all, Bram Cohen's self-titled BitTorrent application. It's gotten kind of confusing since he named the protocol, his company and his application all BitTorrent. BitTorrent OSX is a very (and I mean very) basic application. It's as feature-full as Safari's download box and that's not saying much. Now some people wouldn't mind something like that, but if you're looking for simplicity Transmission is a much better choice. BitTorrent OSX also takes an age to start up on my MacBook Pro.
Transmission is my current Mac B.T. client of choice. TransmissionIt's an Open Source project, maintained by the developer of the popular Mac DVD ripping application, HandBrake. Transmission does its job well. A neat feature it offers is the ability to view download and upload rates in the dock, so I don't even have to open up the program to check how my downloads are going. Another great thing Transmission does is copy the
For the different torrent apps I mentioned here you can go to:
Bit Torrent OSX: http://www.bittorrent.com/
Transmission: http://transmission.m0k.org/
Tomato Torrent: http://sarwat.net/BitTorrent/
Bit On Wheels: http://www.bitsonwheels.com/
Hope that helps!
Kil
It doesnt have email and it doesnt have google maps... :(
for its price id rather buy an iphone...
I have been reading with interest. Back in the day, I used to work in a CompUSA Store back in San Juan, PR about 5 yrs ago. Being one of the managers of the store I was good friends with the LP Manager. During our many conversations I remember him explaining how LP could intercept and check a guy they thought had "stolen" something: I don't know how CC operates their LP issues, but in my CompUSA Store there were over 22 cameras above in the celing, and there was always an LP Guard, positioned at the monitors looking around. When they found someone who had the possibility of being a shoplifter, they would inform the LP person on the floor, and this person who is dressed as a civilian, would check them out. If the person was cleared, they kept an eye on him, but usually moved to another target. Unless they had visual knowledge (ie: "They saw the guy snuck in an ink cartridge under his shirt"), they would not make the move of intercepting him on the door of the store, where they would ask him for his receipt (and while this was happening, a cop had been called to the scene and awaited in the warehouse where the LP Office was located). Then they would ask the person to follow them to the warehouse and showed him the video where it would show him "stealing" the ink cartridge. If he admitted the fault, the store would either ban him from entering the store again or press charges. The cops would take it from there. After this brief example, and after reading his article in his site and the comments here I have to point out that the manager or the LP Manager, should have checked the video cameras, before they decided to press on the guy. That way the store would have been covered with their "policy". It doesnt seem this step was done. Hence the store took a big chance in being "wrong" (and they were wrong). This is another point Mr. Righi could use to argue his case. "The store has security cameras, show me the video where I stole something..." There is defenitely something fishy going on and by the comment of the supposed employee that just posted here stating that cop was a regular over there, he was biased against the customer towards the manager. Maybe the manager hooked him up with a free Plasma TV... Who knows. But the cameras issue should be addressed as a way to prove the store acted outside of their security policy, aside from the rest of civil rights brokern during this event.
lets move to antigua... i bet you guys TPB will move their hq's over there....
why is this news for nerds, stuff that matters...? Slashdot should fire a lot of these would be reporters really. they suck.
That will happen until OS X launches leopard, then we will see an increase on the amount of people browsing, the web, again it wont be a huge number but it wil lincrease the lead. People are afraid to enjoy the internet, because of all the security problems windows vista has... That is my guess...
hmmm if that works maybe we should start death threatening MS so they deliver a true OS experience...