Do you or does anyone out there have details on this? What I've been doing with some of my more valuable lp's is recording them and then compressing the.wavs down to mp3. I'm assuming that *this* would have to be legal, since the copy includes all the imperfections of the original, etc..
However, it could be argued that mp3 is an inferior means of listening to music, as many posters have pointed out in other articles that after compression the file loses a lot of the lower end, which they say makes it worthless for pumping through a system at a party. If that is true, and considering that a good portion of people who still listen to their vinyl have pretty decent stereos, I think there's a trade off involved either way; near perfect (but tinnier?) copy of song, versus a more thumpin (but with snaps, crackles and pops) copy.
Of course if it isn't truly illegal to do this then one could find as much "original copy" as they want at the local thrift store for 50 cents a pop. But then who really listens to the Longines Symphonette?
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
damn that's a good idea though...maybe someone at Mozilla could throw something in on the 'n(i/u)x version at least with a little [abc] button that calls ispell? Is this even possible with the licenses? I'm imagining that it could be done in/. however it has probably been discussed, and given the effect the users have on it at busy periods, all those instances of spellchecking would probably cripple the servers...
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
But I *really* like Schlitz. Not the "bull" Schlitz, or the 'ice' variety, but good old fashioned, gold and purple canned beer that made Milwaukee famous, "just the kiss of the hops" Schlitz. For roughly $2.49 a 6 pack I get more flavor and buzz than anything else domestic.
The only thing I've found close is a German beer that came in a clay jar called "Bock Im Stein"...of course that was $6.00 a jar (also one of those flattened you, guess that's why it's a "bock").
Anyway, I just thought I'd pop in real quick and plug my favorite unpretentious beer. If you ever have an extra 2 and a half to spend, stop on my the A&P and pick one up.
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
That is a good point, however given the subject matter of the article, it wouldn't be very sporting of them;^) Maybe one day someone there will realize that we simply don't *want* another damn user/pass.
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
Try mental problems. One of these kids was on a mind-altering drug preceding the shooting, yet how often was this mentioned in relation to playing quake?
There's a wonderful post in *alt.games.quake2* of all places regarding this. I was fairly active in that newsgroup at the time and there was quite a bit of discussion on the topic ever since the shootings. (whole thread here. There's a post further on down describing in detail all of the side effects of the medication.)
Morality/values certainly played a role in this, but as long as we're pointing fingers let's not forget that mental health issues combined with drugs which may actually make ones problems *worse*. Of course being able to admit that we're finger-pointing is only the first steps toward actually dealing with the issues. Something tells me that society as a whole will be dealing with them for some time...
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
I'm sorry, I've been guilty of this in the past. Of course it is refferred to as the CPU in several manuals I've owned for various systems (mostly circa the atari in aforementioned article).
Mostly it comes from doing round-floor tech support, where the lUsers call up and go "My modem doesn't have a plug for the phone jack..." and you have to get them to call it anything *other* than a "modem" or "Hard disk" just so you won't be tempted to look up their address and pu them out of their misery... Most of these people don't know what a soundcard is or why they need one, or what half the plugs on the back of their computer are for.
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
I noticed they also adapted this as a musical and a screenplay. Perhaps someone here knows some high school drama teachers in the area...I think something like this would be too good to pass up:-)
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
It's a bit more like you sublet and you leave beers in your landlord's fridge. Actually, unless they were doing some massive fileserving or downloading pirated DvD's, I'd reckon the damage is far *less* than the amount of space a 12 pack would take up in a fridge. The second article seems a little slanted but I'll play along here- Apparently they were allowing students to use their computers to check email, do internet searches, etc. This seems like a win-win situation, as it keeps those students out of the campus labs, reduces wear/tear on their lab computers and makes the students happier as they don't have to walk from building to building. Something I'm curious about also. The articles mention that they were using an abandoned(?) computer lab to plug these into, and that they were previously allowed to take their computers down to there to use. I could understand a visit from some of the network admin's cronies telling them to stop if the school was so upset about this, but arrest seems a little over the top.
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chmod 400 ~/.netscape/cookies The Windows users out there can find the cookies.txt file, delete everything right below where it says "do not edit" (Ha! Warning labels my ass!) then save it, right click the file and set it to read-only. Or leave in there Yahoo and/. login cookies. The one problem this has though is that I think netscape still stores cookies in memory until you quit, whence it tries to write everything to the cookiefile. Meaning that someone is likely still able to track you somewhat if you fill out a form anywhere along the way...I've since abandoned it in favor of blocking the urls of the known offenders:-)
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I was thinking more along the lines of a little button that says "block this bastard", or maybe one that sends back expletives instead of any useable info every time that server tries to set a cookie.
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What to do with all those nvidia cards? E-Bay them...I know it keeps people from buying their competition, however it also keeps them from buying the new Nvidia products as well. Be sure to put on the Auction page that this card only works well in MicroSoft Windows(tm).
Let them know the exact reasons why you're no longer using the card. The gaming kids will get a bargain on a card which will probably be obsoleted by the time linux has great game support, you'll have a few bucks toward a wiser purchase, and folks who are looking for this hardware will know exactly what they're buying.
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Think of the publicity! Nothing but stories of how Nvidia users feel betrayed for the 1/4 of the comments I've read so far. That's really bad press, considering that/. news often gets quoted on gaming sites and other news places. I just saw an article on the front cover of "Wired" about Rob's secret/. diaries, etc...Not to mention at least one person who works at Nvidia is going to read this and go "Uh, boss? C'mere!". I know that unless Nvidia comes up with something a little better than what they've been delivering, I'll tell all my freinds to avoid them like the plague.
So while it won't ruin the economy, it might be responsible for an exodus of customers to their direct competition, who seem to be picking up the ball. Nvidia needs to seriously hop on the cluetrain before it runs them over.
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I don't know but as soon as I got home to my dialup account I got onto alt.binaries.e-books (note the dash) and got it. Anyway, xpdf works great with it, no problems. Thanks to the AC who pointed this out, and anyone else who is bitter at BN should go ahead and get this now.
As for whether it was cracked or not, I doubt it (after all why would BN even *offer* normal.pdf files if there were never any in existence), and I'm sure there would have been a post earlier here advertising an ebf cracker program instead, so that folks would just get *all* their gl"assbook" formatted books 'to go'.
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"since plenty of the slashdot trolls were probably originally usenet ones."
I think a lot of the/. trolls were originally the segfault ones...oh well, they come they go, they proliferate and go out into the world...the scary part is _recognizing_ them on different websites (I've spotted at least 4 in the last month). sigh...
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"Did anybody get the PDF, or was it just a pack of lies to get loads of email addresses to spam? " Yep, Same situation. I filled out their "/dev/null" comments form and all, but I don't think they care. The worst part was after getting the damn things, and deleting my email, the f-ing file turned out to be a SERVER-ERROR html page from gl"assbook"(I shoulda looked at the filesize, oops). There was no freaking book. Just a stupid proprietary, 'prevents copying'(set your files to readonly before opening, I'm sure it will modify them somehow) bookreader. If anyone actually DID get the book, either.ebf or.pdf, *please* put it on gnutella or email it to my college address. I normally don't advocate piracy but that just plain stinks. I also forgot to follow their link to remove myself from their spam list. Porno-site spam tactics, a bait-and-switch advertising scheme and to top it all off I still don't even have my bill-gates-edition copy of the new book. Mr. King(I'm a big fan BTW), if you are reading/. right now, please take note-DO NOT allow your publishers to do this in the future. If they cannot keep up with demand from the start then they have no business distributing your work. Myself and I'm sure several other/.ers would be much more capable of setting up a download system that would insure fairness for all. Anyway I learned two things from this. John Katz *can* call 'em sometimes, and never trust an online bookseller any farther than you can throw them.
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I used a pair of couplers with the rca's off my turntable to an adapter into my souncard, wmrecord or some such to put it into.wavs. Sorry, can't help you with scratch filtering (most of my record collection is very well preserved, and I kind of like the few pops that are there, adds character or something), try DAP(?). There are quite a few nice mp3 compressors out there like lame(technically NOT an ecoder but...) or bladeenc, I used some gtk thingee. Sorry for the lack of details but it has been a few months and an installation or two ago (I'm a distro-hopper). Freshmeat's appindex under X11/Audio ought to get you started
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Don't forget that one...a combined mixer/wave editor, I'm guessing the same concept as goldwave/multiquence for Win9x (basically lets you build sample loops and multitrack your waves). I just got it and installed tonight, so I haven't had too much of a chance to play with it, but if it works as designed it should be a kick in the ass to get me to dust off the old guitar and...
Oh yeah that url is http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/05/17/926 940264.html
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After all, isn't that precisely what their distributed file sharing system is good for? None of those pesky web-logs like web-hosting providers like to keep under their control...
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I don't know if it's my tired school network or theirs, but the page, the student directory homepage, and the base URL all refuse to load for me...however you can always try here:-)
Slashdot Mirror
"I already patented that years ago, when I worked for Microsoft."
That would be the ultimate "Flat Food", now wouldn't it?
Do you or does anyone out there have details on this? What I've been doing with some of my more valuable lp's is recording them and then compressing the .wavs down to mp3. I'm assuming that *this* would have to be legal, since the copy includes all the imperfections of the original, etc..
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
However, it could be argued that mp3 is an inferior means of listening to music, as many posters have pointed out in other articles that after compression the file loses a lot of the lower end, which they say makes it worthless for pumping through a system at a party. If that is true, and considering that a good portion of people who still listen to their vinyl have pretty decent stereos, I think there's a trade off involved either way; near perfect (but tinnier?) copy of song, versus a more thumpin (but with snaps, crackles and pops) copy.
Of course if it isn't truly illegal to do this then one could find as much "original copy" as they want at the local thrift store for 50 cents a pop. But then who really listens to the Longines Symphonette?
damn that's a good idea though...maybe someone at Mozilla could throw something in on the 'n(i/u)x version at least with a little [abc] button that calls ispell? Is this even possible with the licenses? I'm imagining that it could be done in /. however it has probably been discussed, and given the effect the users have on it at busy periods, all those instances of spellchecking would probably cripple the servers...
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
But I *really* like Schlitz. Not the "bull" Schlitz, or the 'ice' variety, but good old fashioned, gold and purple canned beer that made Milwaukee famous, "just the kiss of the hops" Schlitz. For roughly $2.49 a 6 pack I get more flavor and buzz than anything else domestic.
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
The only thing I've found close is a German beer that came in a clay jar called "Bock Im Stein"...of course that was $6.00 a jar (also one of those flattened you, guess that's why it's a "bock").
Anyway, I just thought I'd pop in real quick and plug my favorite unpretentious beer. If you ever have an extra 2 and a half to spend, stop on my the A&P and pick one up.
I heard Ticketmaster just applied for a patent on their "25 click" technology...
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
(Rimshot)
That is a good point, however given the subject matter of the article, it wouldn't be very sporting of them ;^) Maybe one day someone there will realize that we simply don't *want* another damn user/pass.
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
Try mental problems. One of these kids was on a mind-altering drug preceding the shooting, yet how often was this mentioned in relation to playing quake?
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
There's a wonderful post in *alt.games.quake2* of all places regarding this. I was fairly active in that newsgroup at the time and there was quite a bit of discussion on the topic ever since the shootings. (whole thread here. There's a post further on down describing in detail all of the side effects of the medication.)
Morality/values certainly played a role in this, but as long as we're pointing fingers let's not forget that mental health issues combined with drugs which may actually make ones problems *worse*. Of course being able to admit that we're finger-pointing is only the first steps toward actually dealing with the issues. Something tells me that society as a whole will be dealing with them for some time...
I'm sorry, I've been guilty of this in the past. Of course it is refferred to as the CPU in several manuals I've owned for various systems (mostly circa the atari in aforementioned article).
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
Mostly it comes from doing round-floor tech support, where the lUsers call up and go "My modem doesn't have a plug for the phone jack..." and you have to get them to call it anything *other* than a "modem" or "Hard disk" just so you won't be tempted to look up their address and pu them out of their misery... Most of these people don't know what a soundcard is or why they need one, or what half the plugs on the back of their computer are for.
I noticed they also adapted this as a musical and a screenplay. Perhaps someone here knows some high school drama teachers in the area...I think something like this would be too good to pass up :-)
...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
"this may be the beginning of the end for the dotcom fad."
.cc now ;^)
Of course. They're all going to move to
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It's a bit more like you sublet and you leave beers in your landlord's fridge. Actually, unless they were doing some massive fileserving or downloading pirated DvD's, I'd reckon the damage is far *less* than the amount of space a 12 pack would take up in a fridge. The second article seems a little slanted but I'll play along here- Apparently they were allowing students to use their computers to check email, do internet searches, etc. This seems like a win-win situation, as it keeps those students out of the campus labs, reduces wear/tear on their lab computers and makes the students happier as they don't have to walk from building to building. Something I'm curious about also. The articles mention that they were using an abandoned(?) computer lab to plug these into, and that they were previously allowed to take their computers down to there to use. I could understand a visit from some of the network admin's cronies telling them to stop if the school was so upset about this, but arrest seems a little over the top.
mcrandello@my-deja.com
rschaar{at}pegasus.cc.ucf.edu if it's important.
chmod 400 ~/.netscape/cookies The Windows users out there can find the cookies.txt file, delete everything right below where it says "do not edit" (Ha! Warning labels my ass!) then save it, right click the file and set it to read-only. Or leave in there Yahoo and /. login cookies. The one problem this has though is that I think netscape still stores cookies in memory until you quit, whence it tries to write everything to the cookiefile. Meaning that someone is likely still able to track you somewhat if you fill out a form anywhere along the way...I've since abandoned it in favor of blocking the urls of the known offenders :-)
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I was thinking more along the lines of a little button that says "block this bastard", or maybe one that sends back expletives instead of any useable info every time that server tries to set a cookie.
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What to do with all those nvidia cards? E-Bay them...I know it keeps people from buying their competition, however it also keeps them from buying the new Nvidia products as well. Be sure to put on the Auction page that this card only works well in MicroSoft Windows(tm).
Let them know the exact reasons why you're no longer using the card. The gaming kids will get a bargain on a card which will probably be obsoleted by the time linux has great game support, you'll have a few bucks toward a wiser purchase, and folks who are looking for this hardware will know exactly what they're buying.
mcrandello@my-deja.com
rschaar{at}pegasus.cc.ucf.edu if it's important.
"THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!"
/. news often gets quoted on gaming sites and other news places. I just saw an article on the front cover of "Wired" about Rob's secret /. diaries, etc...Not to mention at least one person who works at Nvidia is going to read this and go "Uh, boss? C'mere!". I know that unless Nvidia comes up with something a little better than what they've been delivering, I'll tell all my freinds to avoid them like the plague.
Think of the publicity! Nothing but stories of how Nvidia users feel betrayed for the 1/4 of the comments I've read so far. That's really bad press, considering that
So while it won't ruin the economy, it might be responsible for an exodus of customers to their direct competition, who seem to be picking up the ball. Nvidia needs to seriously hop on the cluetrain before it runs them over.
mcrandello@my-deja.com
rschaar{at}pegasus.cc.ucf.edu if it's important.
I don't know but as soon as I got home to my dialup account I got onto alt.binaries.e-books (note the dash) and got it. Anyway, xpdf works great with it, no problems. Thanks to the AC who pointed this out, and anyone else who is bitter at BN should go ahead and get this now.
.pdf files if there were never any in existence), and I'm sure there would have been a post earlier here advertising an ebf cracker program instead, so that folks would just get *all* their gl"assbook" formatted books 'to go'.
As for whether it was cracked or not, I doubt it (after all why would BN even *offer* normal
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"since plenty of the slashdot trolls were probably originally usenet ones."
/. trolls were originally the segfault ones...oh well, they come they go, they proliferate and go out into the world...the scary part is _recognizing_ them on different websites (I've spotted at least 4 in the last month). sigh...
I think a lot of the
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"Did anybody get the PDF, or was it just a pack of lies to get loads of email addresses to spam? " Yep, Same situation. I filled out their "/dev/null" comments form and all, but I don't think they care. The worst part was after getting the damn things, and deleting my email, the f-ing file turned out to be a SERVER-ERROR html page from gl"assbook"(I shoulda looked at the filesize, oops). There was no freaking book. Just a stupid proprietary, 'prevents copying'(set your files to readonly before opening, I'm sure it will modify them somehow) bookreader. If anyone actually DID get the book, either .ebf or .pdf, *please* put it on gnutella or email it to my college address. I normally don't advocate piracy but that just plain stinks. I also forgot to follow their link to remove myself from their spam list. Porno-site spam tactics, a bait-and-switch advertising scheme and to top it all off I still don't even have my bill-gates-edition copy of the new book. Mr. King(I'm a big fan BTW), if you are reading /. right now, please take note-DO NOT allow your publishers to do this in the future. If they cannot keep up with demand from the start then they have no business distributing your work. Myself and I'm sure several other /.ers would be much more capable of setting up a download system that would insure fairness for all. Anyway I learned two things from this. John Katz *can* call 'em sometimes, and never trust an online bookseller any farther than you can throw them.
mcrandello@my-deja.com
rschaar{at}pegasus.cc.ucf.edu if it's important.
I used a pair of couplers with the rca's off my turntable to an adapter into my souncard, wmrecord or some such to put it into .wavs. Sorry, can't help you with scratch filtering (most of my record collection is very well preserved, and I kind of like the few pops that are there, adds character or something), try DAP(?). There are quite a few nice mp3 compressors out there like lame(technically NOT an ecoder but...) or bladeenc, I used some gtk thingee. Sorry for the lack of details but it has been a few months and an installation or two ago (I'm a distro-hopper). Freshmeat's appindex under X11/Audio ought to get you started
mcrandello@my-deja.com
rschaar{at}pegasus.cc.ucf.edu if it's important.
Don't forget that one...a combined mixer/wave editor, I'm guessing the same concept as goldwave/multiquence for Win9x (basically lets you build sample loops and multitrack your waves). I just got it and installed tonight, so I haven't had too much of a chance to play with it, but if it works as designed it should be a kick in the ass to get me to dust off the old guitar and...
6 940264.html
Oh yeah that url is
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/05/17/92
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After all, isn't that precisely what their distributed file sharing system is good for? None of those pesky web-logs like web-hosting providers like to keep under their control...
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Try the link below in a little while for ISOs...
1 28471
http://fileforum.efront.com/detail.php3?fid=953
(some URL surgery may be neccesary). Of course they'll like be up at the FTP sites at that point but if they're getting clobbered...
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http://www.bolo.ch/bigimgs/lsadm3a.jpg
I was a little interested and after exhaustive searching came up with this (hotbot using 'lear-siegler ADM').
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unless they also block that too...in which case you can use
http://www.80s.com/Entertainment/ValleyURL/
which should do the same thing, except like totally in valley speak (oh my gawd!) Anyway that may help...
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I don't know if it's my tired school network or theirs, but the page, the student directory homepage, and the base URL all refuse to load for me...however you can always try here :-)
m ucc.edu/~pmichaud/grape/
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.sci.ta
(you may have to do some URL surgery of course). Number one link for the terms "grape" and "microwave" too...
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