Fair question, and I thought about it RIGHT AFTER I hit 'submit'. The theater was one of those 16 screen googleplexes - and the lobby was full of kids that were barely old enough to drive waltzing around waiting to see 'Mr and Mrs Smith', 'Scary movie whatever' and whatever bad 70's tv show had been covereted into a movie with MTV 'stars'.
So yeah, it was them... but still, in the theater the thirtysomethings (like me) were all checking their fones and such (not me) during the movie.
This is an excellent post, and outlines why I love using NetFlix over going to see ANY movie at the theater. The last one I saw in the theater was 'Sideways', however being around so many teeny-boppers with their kustom cell fone rings, and buying a few snacks for 16$ (after paying for the tickets) made me think; wouldn't I rather go out for dinner with my wife, and then watch a movie at home, were we could be together and not have to deal with all the BS and annoyance of going to a 'theater'? That "WHERE YOU AT" comment was right on my friend./me off to NetFlix to see what movie I'll be watching Friday night, at home, with my wife, with a beer, with healthy popcorn, with my feet up on the ottaman, etc.
While ISPs learn to block...
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Why Phishing Works
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· Score: 5, Informative
I always encourage others to 'go on the offensive' and help polute phisher's databases with the awesome site: PhishFighting.com. Set a few tabs open to fill the phisher's database with useless Data, check back later and see the site is offline (likely from the attention garnered from all the bandwidth useage!
Why wouldn't they have this running already? It would reduce wasted bandwith, and make users happier. ISPs should do their best, and let users know in case some crappy 'joke' fwd'd to 100s didn't get through. My suggestions:
Graylisting
Mailscanner
ClamAV
Bitdefender
Spamassassin
DCC checks
This will help reduce things CONSIDERABLY - again, if I can do it at home, why can't an ISP have a dedicated FreeBSD box (or two) that just handle this step, and then pass it on IF it passes?
That probably has ALLOT to do with it, I don't have the 'quartz extreme' thanks to this graphics card. Turning off the 'bounce' is something I'll def do tonight, appreciated.
And also, just so no one is confused, I love my iBook, and OS X *is* my second favorite Desktop OS, but there's just a huge gap in speed on my setup. Still, I am foaming at the mouth (well maybe not really, but...) at the prospect of a new Intel iBook, and have already spec'd out a local store where I can trade in my old 800Mhz (along with its installed THIRD 'logic board') and get some scratch off a new one.
Damn, and they marked my original comment Offtopic...this one is even farther.
Slowly. Call this flamebait, but I have two Macs at home and am always frustrated with the spinning beach ball animation while I wait for my app to launch. The icon bounces, bounces and bounces. I know my 800Mhz iBook with 640Megs RAM isn't the latest/fastest machine, but when I boot back into Ubuntu Dapper it's MUCH faster. I think OS X is a fine OS, but much of what it does in the background isn't helping me check my email, instant message or ssh to remote boxes.
We play Super Mario Strikers (soccer), Mario Kart (racing), Mario Party 7 (board game like), Mario DDR (dance, dance, revolution!) with our 3 and 5 1/2 year old and have a blast. We can almost play some games 4 player now, and my 5 1/2 year old is really pushing me on Strikers! (how the hell does she score from so far out all the time?)
I don't play outside of playing with the kids, well, perhaps once every other week, but we love playing together - the GameCube is the most fun system IMO.
Ah, now that will be interesting; not that I'm a Photoshop guy, but I've long argued that OS X is a HEAVY OS. I know it's not a fair comparision, but Ubuntu is MUCH faster (even running Gnome) on my 800Mhz iBook than OS X. While I never plan on installing Windows on a new Mac (I am waiting to see what they come out with to replace the iBook) I will dual boot OS X and Linux first thing. Anyone who has run Linux, with Mac-on-linux at the same time will know what I mean.
That looks perfect! Why hadn't I heard of this earlier? With those constant Dell 399$ desktop specials (and you could sell the flat panel later to recoupe even more) and a WinTV-dbx, model 401 (~72$ via Froogle) you can be all set! Hmmm...must think about this, thanks for the link!
It works, it's cool, just kind of a pain to build and more expensive than he wanted, but the DIY attraction and avoidance of fees make this an overall posititve experience for him.
I'm still waiting for a distro that "just works" with a default PC you can buy, after throwing in a Haupage TV card. Plug in, boot from cdrom, try it out, like it, install it on HD...done. Is there such a thing yet, or should I wait for PVRuntu?
I was one of the authors of getmoz [http://getmoz.mozdev.org/%5D that would do just that, dnld the latest, backup your old copy, install the new, migrate bookmarks, etc. I *think* I got started with Mozilla sometime during M20 (? can't recall if this is the right milestone or what ?) Back then one night would reveal a bunch of changes that would/would not be there the next day...a fun time!
Theo shot off his mouth about the Iraq War in a newspaper interview (Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper), putting DARPA in a position where they couldn't publicly support the projects he led. It's politics 101, and this sort of hotheadedness is exactly why Theo got turfed out of the NetBSD project.
Interesting, looking back I do seem to remember that, however I disagree with your comments that Theo "shot his mouth about" and "this sort of hotheadedness" etc. It seems that if you're trying to be free in every sense of the word you would want to be open about all aspects of things. I would be hypocritcal if Theo took money from our government and didn't speak his mind to protect that funding imo. Kudos to him for standing up for what he believes in, and regardless of his detractors you have to admit, OpenBSD is an amazing/unique OS; no need for them to do anything different if they don't want. That's freedom.
Really, think about what a resourse openbsd.org site is, if they had those tacky Google ads it would recieve a ton of pageviews, and clickthroughs likely since it'll tailor it's ads to BSD/Open Source stuff. Might go against the whole philosophy of the project, which I completely respect, but if it saves said project, it may be a required trade off. With the proliferation of broadband expect to see things like CD sales to continue to dwindle.
I suppose that reopening conversations with DARPA is out of the question? I was very hopeful when I heard about this, but disappointed when the support was withdrawn. I don't know the reason, but if it was for some idealistic plan on Theo on how to position OpenBSD, I support it. I don't know how to remedy this situation, but can only think of offering paid support (shudder) to companies utilizing OpenSSH. Either that or a grass roots tshirt campain! Let's see some better designs on some nice American Apparel shirts to get the ball rolling. The posted ideas about using some kind of embarassment campain against no paying corporations harks back to the bitter taste in my mouth when you were shunned if you didn't belong to the 'Mandrake Club'. That is the wrong avenue.
All throughout the article the author tries to paint OS X as being the end all, with little fact. Plus, what user looking to try one of these 3 OSs will understand this jibbish?
Each system has different programing architectures with OS X a little closer to Linux than Windows. OS X uses a UNIX architecture to run its internals. However, the OS X desktop interface does not resemble Linux or other UNICES which depend on X. You can use X on the Mac natively.
I get so tired of hearing that OS X uses a UNIX architecture, but I digress. Also I like how Linux sucks because software like Income Tax apps are lacking...hello? I processed my last 3 income tax paperwork via Turbo Tax online. What a bad article, no wonder I stopped checking 'digg.com'
Plenty of games, Mario ones as mentioned, but the SSX games can be tailored to allow the novice to have more speed and control than another...plus it's a blast to play. My 3 yr old son isn't great at turning yet, but the snowboarders just bounce off of enough things that he keeps moving downhill.
having a DNS server that allows recursion for the Internet is like running an open SMTP relay.'
Anyone want to discuss how DNS Cache addresses this? AFAIK this is a pretty "safe" way to provide DNS to at least a small sized network - but that's all I run it on. Comments, concerns, advice?
I always had one foot (*pun intended*) in Gnome and one in E17/Openbox/Xfce4 - but recently I've installed Ubuntu Dapper, and then Compwiz/XGL - holy cow! Yes, you need good graphics card, but my nVidia 6600GT is up to the task. The desktop is now totally snappy - even things like Firefox seem faster - feels like the graphics really fly on the screen now. As promised everything is faster, especially the startup of the main desktop. Apps are quicker, and even the menus just pop up (no annoying delay waiting for the icons to catch up on the menus). Oh and all of a sudden Gnome-terminal is just about as fast to launch and respond as Xterm! Woo-hoo! Considering that's what I use the most, this is a welcome improvement.
After reading the review from yesterday I tried out Epipany, and it's come a long way. There are only a couple of more config options I need, but if I get those I'll start running that in place of Firefox. For all of it's percieved 'heavy-ness' it feels nice and snappy now, and I think I'll be sticking more with Gnome for quite some time. Nice job.
Agreed, sometimes I wonder why I bother using SSL for all email, TSL/SSL for all chat and firewalls and other security methods; once my data is out of my hands it's up to the weakest link in the chain to define how secure I am. You really need to provide more to get CC, SS Cards, lic, etc...I'm thinking either fingerprints or blood - it should be at least a couple of years until those get stolen very often.
Software companies pay to have their demo software installed when the computer ships. They are subsidizing the cost of the computer. If no OS is installed, this can't occur. Accordingly, the no-OS box is more than the OS-installed box.
I didn't even think of that...very good point.
Just buy the XP installed computer and format the hard drive.
This is what I (begrudgingly) did last year, now with Dapper and all the Compwiz/XGL stuff on it, the thing is freaking amazing. Still, I don't expect many others to do this...I'm strange, I leave/home on a big partition so I can reinstall the OS at the drop of a hat.
Well, what if you're at a friend's house and (s)he, uh, sells you an old CD. Yeah, sells it to you. But, you don't want to take the actual CD with you, because you're afraid your car will get broken in to. So, you, you know, agree to leave the actual, physical CD at your friend's house, for, you know, safe keeping. You'll probably get it later, anyway. But, you'd really like to have those tracks on your iPod, like, now. So, you whip out your iUpload device, plug it into your iPod and blam!, now you have your newly purchased, perfectly legal music in your iPod.
So, there you go, one reason why you would buy something to do something you already have a computer to do. And it's perfectly legal!
Riiiight...and you didn't want to use hers/his computer to rip the tracks because? If it's a good cd chances are they've already "legally" ripped the on to their computer anyway, and that would make the transfer even quicker. So while I appreciate your comment, but I feel it's a bit flawed, or perhaps just sarcastic. Sarcasm on/.? Na, couldn't be. - sarcasm
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Fair question, and I thought about it RIGHT AFTER I hit 'submit'. The theater was one of those 16 screen googleplexes - and the lobby was full of kids that were barely old enough to drive waltzing around waiting to see 'Mr and Mrs Smith', 'Scary movie whatever' and whatever bad 70's tv show had been covereted into a movie with MTV 'stars'.
So yeah, it was them... but still, in the theater the thirtysomethings (like me) were all checking their fones and such (not me) during the movie.
so f them and the teenboppers.
thanks for the opportunity to clear the air.
This is an excellent post, and outlines why I love using NetFlix over going to see ANY movie at the theater. The last one I saw in the theater was 'Sideways', however being around so many teeny-boppers with their kustom cell fone rings, and buying a few snacks for 16$ (after paying for the tickets) made me think; wouldn't I rather go out for dinner with my wife, and then watch a movie at home, were we could be together and not have to deal with all the BS and annoyance of going to a 'theater'? That "WHERE YOU AT" comment was right on my friend. /me off to NetFlix to see what movie I'll be watching Friday night, at home, with my wife, with a beer, with healthy popcorn, with my feet up on the ottaman, etc.
I always encourage others to 'go on the offensive' and help polute phisher's databases with the awesome site: PhishFighting.com. Set a few tabs open to fill the phisher's database with useless Data, check back later and see the site is offline (likely from the attention garnered from all the bandwidth useage!
As bosses would say "It's a win-win!"
reports show that Java still runs dog slow, even with the 768-way configuration."
Ah, the more things change, the more they stay the same!
Why wouldn't they have this running already? It would reduce wasted bandwith, and make users happier. ISPs should do their best, and let users know in case some crappy 'joke' fwd'd to 100s didn't get through. My suggestions: Graylisting Mailscanner ClamAV Bitdefender Spamassassin DCC checks This will help reduce things CONSIDERABLY - again, if I can do it at home, why can't an ISP have a dedicated FreeBSD box (or two) that just handle this step, and then pass it on IF it passes?
That probably has ALLOT to do with it, I don't have the 'quartz extreme' thanks to this graphics card. Turning off the 'bounce' is something I'll def do tonight, appreciated.
And also, just so no one is confused, I love my iBook, and OS X *is* my second favorite Desktop OS, but there's just a huge gap in speed on my setup. Still, I am foaming at the mouth (well maybe not really, but...) at the prospect of a new Intel iBook, and have already spec'd out a local store where I can trade in my old 800Mhz (along with its installed THIRD 'logic board') and get some scratch off a new one.
Damn, and they marked my original comment Offtopic...this one is even farther.
How OS X Executes Applications
Slowly. Call this flamebait, but I have two Macs at home and am always frustrated with the spinning beach ball animation while I wait for my app to launch. The icon bounces, bounces and bounces. I know my 800Mhz iBook with 640Megs RAM isn't the latest/fastest machine, but when I boot back into Ubuntu Dapper it's MUCH faster. I think OS X is a fine OS, but much of what it does in the background isn't helping me check my email, instant message or ssh to remote boxes.
We play Super Mario Strikers (soccer), Mario Kart (racing), Mario Party 7 (board game like), Mario DDR (dance, dance, revolution!) with our 3 and 5 1/2 year old and have a blast. We can almost play some games 4 player now, and my 5 1/2 year old is really pushing me on Strikers! (how the hell does she score from so far out all the time?) I don't play outside of playing with the kids, well, perhaps once every other week, but we love playing together - the GameCube is the most fun system IMO.
Try Galeon and Opera.
Ah, now that will be interesting; not that I'm a Photoshop guy, but I've long argued that OS X is a HEAVY OS. I know it's not a fair comparision, but Ubuntu is MUCH faster (even running Gnome) on my 800Mhz iBook than OS X. While I never plan on installing Windows on a new Mac (I am waiting to see what they come out with to replace the iBook) I will dual boot OS X and Linux first thing. Anyone who has run Linux, with Mac-on-linux at the same time will know what I mean.
only major issue is having to set up the ivtv drivers for the PVR-350 (if that is what you have).
so using the 72$ 401 that I mention above solves this then?
That looks perfect! Why hadn't I heard of this earlier? With those constant Dell 399$ desktop specials (and you could sell the flat panel later to recoupe even more) and a WinTV-dbx, model 401 (~72$ via Froogle) you can be all set! Hmmm...must think about this, thanks for the link!
It works, it's cool, just kind of a pain to build and more expensive than he wanted, but the DIY attraction and avoidance of fees make this an overall posititve experience for him. I'm still waiting for a distro that "just works" with a default PC you can buy, after throwing in a Haupage TV card. Plug in, boot from cdrom, try it out, like it, install it on HD...done. Is there such a thing yet, or should I wait for PVRuntu?
I was one of the authors of getmoz [http://getmoz.mozdev.org/%5D that would do just that, dnld the latest, backup your old copy, install the new, migrate bookmarks, etc. I *think* I got started with Mozilla sometime during M20 (? can't recall if this is the right milestone or what ?) Back then one night would reveal a bunch of changes that would/would not be there the next day...a fun time!
Theo shot off his mouth about the Iraq War in a newspaper interview (Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper), putting DARPA in a position where they couldn't publicly support the projects he led. It's politics 101, and this sort of hotheadedness is exactly why Theo got turfed out of the NetBSD project.
Interesting, looking back I do seem to remember that, however I disagree with your comments that Theo "shot his mouth about" and "this sort of hotheadedness" etc. It seems that if you're trying to be free in every sense of the word you would want to be open about all aspects of things. I would be hypocritcal if Theo took money from our government and didn't speak his mind to protect that funding imo. Kudos to him for standing up for what he believes in, and regardless of his detractors you have to admit, OpenBSD is an amazing/unique OS; no need for them to do anything different if they don't want. That's freedom.
Really, think about what a resourse openbsd.org site is, if they had those tacky Google ads it would recieve a ton of pageviews, and clickthroughs likely since it'll tailor it's ads to BSD/Open Source stuff. Might go against the whole philosophy of the project, which I completely respect, but if it saves said project, it may be a required trade off. With the proliferation of broadband expect to see things like CD sales to continue to dwindle.
I suppose that reopening conversations with DARPA is out of the question? I was very hopeful when I heard about this, but disappointed when the support was withdrawn. I don't know the reason, but if it was for some idealistic plan on Theo on how to position OpenBSD, I support it. I don't know how to remedy this situation, but can only think of offering paid support (shudder) to companies utilizing OpenSSH. Either that or a grass roots tshirt campain! Let's see some better designs on some nice American Apparel shirts to get the ball rolling. The posted ideas about using some kind of embarassment campain against no paying corporations harks back to the bitter taste in my mouth when you were shunned if you didn't belong to the 'Mandrake Club'. That is the wrong avenue.
- Each system has different programing architectures with OS X a little closer to Linux than Windows. OS X uses a UNIX architecture to run its internals. However, the OS X desktop interface does not resemble Linux or other UNICES which depend on X. You can use X on the Mac natively.
I get so tired of hearing that OS X uses a UNIX architecture, but I digress. Also I like how Linux sucks because software like Income Tax apps are lacking...hello? I processed my last 3 income tax paperwork via Turbo Tax online. What a bad article, no wonder I stopped checking 'digg.com'Plenty of games, Mario ones as mentioned, but the SSX games can be tailored to allow the novice to have more speed and control than another...plus it's a blast to play. My 3 yr old son isn't great at turning yet, but the snowboarders just bounce off of enough things that he keeps moving downhill.
having a DNS server that allows recursion for the Internet is like running an open SMTP relay.'
Anyone want to discuss how DNS Cache addresses this? AFAIK this is a pretty "safe" way to provide DNS to at least a small sized network - but that's all I run it on. Comments, concerns, advice?
I always had one foot (*pun intended*) in Gnome and one in E17/Openbox/Xfce4 - but recently I've installed Ubuntu Dapper, and then Compwiz/XGL - holy cow! Yes, you need good graphics card, but my nVidia 6600GT is up to the task. The desktop is now totally snappy - even things like Firefox seem faster - feels like the graphics really fly on the screen now. As promised everything is faster, especially the startup of the main desktop. Apps are quicker, and even the menus just pop up (no annoying delay waiting for the icons to catch up on the menus). Oh and all of a sudden Gnome-terminal is just about as fast to launch and respond as Xterm! Woo-hoo! Considering that's what I use the most, this is a welcome improvement.
After reading the review from yesterday I tried out Epipany, and it's come a long way. There are only a couple of more config options I need, but if I get those I'll start running that in place of Firefox. For all of it's percieved 'heavy-ness' it feels nice and snappy now, and I think I'll be sticking more with Gnome for quite some time. Nice job.
Agreed, sometimes I wonder why I bother using SSL for all email, TSL/SSL for all chat and firewalls and other security methods; once my data is out of my hands it's up to the weakest link in the chain to define how secure I am. You really need to provide more to get CC, SS Cards, lic, etc...I'm thinking either fingerprints or blood - it should be at least a couple of years until those get stolen very often.
Software companies pay to have their demo software installed when the computer ships. They are subsidizing the cost of the computer. If no OS is installed, this can't occur. Accordingly, the no-OS box is more than the OS-installed box.
/home on a big partition so I can reinstall the OS at the drop of a hat.
I didn't even think of that...very good point.
Just buy the XP installed computer and format the hard drive.
This is what I (begrudgingly) did last year, now with Dapper and all the Compwiz/XGL stuff on it, the thing is freaking amazing. Still, I don't expect many others to do this...I'm strange, I leave
Well, what if you're at a friend's house and (s)he, uh, sells you an old CD. Yeah, sells it to you. But, you don't want to take the actual CD with you, because you're afraid your car will get broken in to. So, you, you know, agree to leave the actual, physical CD at your friend's house, for, you know, safe keeping. You'll probably get it later, anyway. But, you'd really like to have those tracks on your iPod, like, now. So, you whip out your iUpload device, plug it into your iPod and blam!, now you have your newly purchased, perfectly legal music in your iPod. So, there you go, one reason why you would buy something to do something you already have a computer to do. And it's perfectly legal!
/.? Na, couldn't be. - sarcasm
Riiiight...and you didn't want to use hers/his computer to rip the tracks because? If it's a good cd chances are they've already "legally" ripped the on to their computer anyway, and that would make the transfer even quicker. So while I appreciate your comment, but I feel it's a bit flawed, or perhaps just sarcastic. Sarcasm on