I worked techsupport at a larger radio station over the summer, we have a whole network of Win95 machines (Hey you try running Audiovault Software and soundcards on anything else...). To prevent the havoc and resulting downtime (which would result in us going off the air) these machines are not connected to the rest of the world, just each other. To add something to the machines we use audio cables and record directly in. Perhaps a future solution for your friend could involve using a similar system (With printers and hard text) to keep the data secure.
I hate to be belligerent (sp?), and I really don't want to troll, but... GET OVER YOURSELVE'S FOSS COMMUNITY! Now, not everyone is guilty of this, but judging by so many of these comments it seems that so many are still stuck in this 1980's "Elite Hacker" mentality. "Well if you don't know how to recompile your kernel so your sound can work, you don't deserve to be using linux" The computer is no longer a geek exclusive, it is now being used by *SHOCK* average Joe. If you want to stay relevent don't tell Joe "RTFM you n00b," instead you need to walk him through it, because 50% of the time, the Manual ain't gonna help him. People shouldn't have to violate (maybe, maybe not, depending on what day it is) U.S. Law to play the most common Digital Music and Video formats out there. Yes, we all know Ogg is superior, but until more people start using it, to Average Joe it is F-ing useless. Average Joe, who, in using linux for his pr0n and mp3z, is NOT spreading ads and viruses. I couldn't care less about market share, I couldn't care less about your "Ideals" over a bunch of 0's and 1's. If a linux distro could, out of the box,
1. Play DvDs 2. Play Common Music Formats (i.e. Mp3, Wma, AAC) (with DRM if possible) 3. Play Flash Correctly 4. Not require the CLI for common, end user tasks
Linux could win tons of converts, and less Average Joe's on Windows means less spam, virii, and ads in your inbox. Sorry about the rant, bye bye Karma...
"Weird Al is one of my favorite people ever. He's pretty good to his fans, he fights the true fight, and is hilarious to boot. I can't wait for this next album."
If you check out the preorder page for "Straight outta Lynnwood" it looks like it's a great deal. $13.98 gets me a full audio CD, A second side with all the tracks in 5.1 PCM, Instrumentals for all the tracks, and 9 music videos (with one from that dude who did ren and stimpy). This album looks too good to pirate!
Debian/Ubuntu makes it easy, I can play more formats than windows can before klites codec pack will even finish downloading on windows. I don't know why you are mounting a network share and allowing any media player write support.
(ubuntu users prefix all commands withy sudo, debian users, you should be root) 1. gedit/etc/apt/sources.list
add deb "http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ breezy free non-free" to the very end 2. add "universe multiverse" to the end of the first two deb lines (usually deb http://us.ubuntu.archive.org/... ) 3. save and close gedit 4. apt-get update 5. apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-multiverse gxine libxine-extracodecs w32codecs totem-xine libdvdcss2 wavepack gxine-plugin vlc 6. Totem and rythmbox can now play almost anything, you also have a vlc option if you want it.
compare that to windows 1. Get on google 2. Search for K-lite codec pack (if you're like me and know what you're looking for) 3. Find a safe site to download it from 4. download it (it was 17 megs last I checked) 5. install it... 6. hope you can (or have a friend who can) sort out the directshow codec hell you now have 7. install quicktime, realplayer (or their alternatives) and vlc 8. Sort out default media player hell 9. now you can play almost anything...
In conclusion, Linux is a little easier (in my opinion), and you need to stop trolling.
I'm having trouble understanding what all the little explosians are... some make sense as software market clashes (IE v. Firefox) but others are scattered around for no apparent reason.
It also seems top be very LOTR where it's the alliance of MAC, JAVA, and GNU against Microsoft. I dont think thats the way its actually happening.
The ESRB ratings are enforced by many retailers. I remember the irony of having to purchase my friend (2 years older than me) Half-Life at a Target, because he forgot his ID card and was told he couldn't buy the game without proof.
</Factual information><rant>
I'm a populist, I think it is the role of the government to protect its citizens. But this is going beyond protection. I'm a gamer, my parents wouldn't allow to watch R-Rated movies (with or without them) until I was 15. But when I was seven my dad put castle wolfenstein on my PC and he taught me to play DooM so we could test the network. Why? because they understood I could tell the difference between fiction (DooM) and real life. Sure, there are some people who can't. But these are the people who also think that WWF (or whatever stupid new acronym they are on) is real and should be imitated. These are the people who break their necks trying to fly off a roof (at age 15). These people do need to be shielded from videogames... and television... and all media for that matter. The general population, however, does not.
</rant> <Solution>
This bill is not trying to fix a broken system. A fixing bill would be: 1) No minor under tyhe age of 16 shall purchase video games carrying an M rating by the ESRB 2) No minor shall purchase video games carrying an AO rating by the ESRB 3) Any retailer found selling said rated games to said minors shall face a fine of X dollars.
We do this for movies already in WA, State Law says you must be 17+ to buy your own ticket to an R Rated movie. If parents don't mind their kids playing violent videogames, great, they can buy them.
</solution> <conclusion>
Thompson is simply reacting like the lawyer he is. He is frightened no-one will take him seriously anymore, so he creates a bill that will allow him to continue manipulating and twisting what he can get his hands on. Instead of doing the logical solution (proposed above), the legislature (most of whom have probably never played a video game or understand the ESRB) thought it would be a good idea. Hopefully it'll get amended in the future. </conclusion>
Site Advisor is an awesome firefox plugin that not only displays whether the site you are at is currently "safe", it also puts a little green check, yello exclamation point, or red x next to popular search engine's results.
If you want to see why a site got a certain rating, you can click the check/mark/x or if you're at the site, the colored bar in the bottom of your browser, to see what McAffee found out when they scanned and indexed the site.
I tried Flock in Alpha and, not trying to troll here, but I didn't really like it. It really didn't seem that interesting to me. I guess if I wrote in my blog more, or was a bigger fan of Flickr/Del.cio.us I might derive more use from it. To me though, it was just a slower firefox (with a color scheme that looked like easter exploded).
The reason I'm writing this is to respond to the file alongside songbird comment. I think Songbird is going to be significantly more sucessful in beta, because it has a broader appeal. It is the firefox of media libraries. It aims to replace its main competitor (iTunes/WMP) by using an opensource standard and doing all the things its competitor can do (and hopefully doing them better)
I use ubuntu so the first thing I do is Sudo gedit/etc/apt/sources.list and add some repositories, Universe and Multiverse aer a must, also some private ones to get codecs a few necessary programs. Sudo apt-get update Sudo apt-get install gstreamer gstreamer-all wget libdvdcss xine-totem mplayer wmcodecs vlc firefox frozenbubble konsole yakuake After those, I pretty much just get stuff as needed. Ubuntu comes with a lot right off the CD so after that its often just a matter of updating what's already there.
Re:Does anyone watch ads they record with Tivo?
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No? Am wrong?
Actually you are. Some of the most consistantly popular videos online are what? TV Ads. Some people watch the superbowl solely for commercials. Advertisers are becoming more clever, making ads that are funny, that people want to watch. Thats how the ad industry can redeem itself through the market. Problem: People not watching ads MPAA Solution: Force them to watch the ad Better Solution: Make the ad so they want to watch it.
From what I'm reading it looks like these programs preform all sorts of different executions, thats great and all, but they probably dont behve like real people do. The average user isn't going to create a file and then (in the middle of that) start running the delete file interface. Also I doubt these tests include other common user issues (like clicking the same function over and over again if it doesn't respond immedietly). Maybe I'm just not understanding what these do... but if I'm even half right, real world tests are the way to go.
And Same as in Linux. Try to delete a system related file, or install something (even from a deb or rpm), or even copy a new icon. You either have to be root, which everyone on here consistantly chides windows users for being to often.
It's from the same group and its the only entry in my journal. Ironically enough it's from December and it has almost the exact same suggested questions.
RE:Trying to install Ubuntu 7.13 -Flashy Ferret. First disconnect all bling from system and reboot, then allow the kernel time to build a den. I reccomend uninstalling The older Running Rabbit modules before continueing as they will likely be devoured for RAM
Yeah, those *&@#ers. I remember I was leading a raid group in Molten Core and There was a rare drop of "Firewall" - some chinese farmer completely ninja'd it off me claiming need than hearthing... man It was on Usenet the next day.
And in mississippi, my Dad came across an apple IIe for dirt cheap, If I remember correct he got it at an office that had upgraded years ago. I remember thinking, when I went to the little public library and checked out a beginners guide to programming, how much space those huge floppy discs held. After i learned the apple, I got stepped up to an 8086 laptop, complete with dock, then up to a 286 running, among other things, OS/2. Then, through some wierd fluke, I was handed a Mac PowerPC, that coul switch modes between PC and Mac, that was awesome.
I'm perfectly cool with that... I mean, if you think about it, these guys have been violating countless international laws since '93... I hope they get the book thrown at them as well.
Instead of waiting for the FCC, why don't you do something yourself. Help in the fight against spyware by visiting the 180solutions website http://www.180solutions.com and pressing f5 a couple times. <br> I don't care if I go to prison for saying this. <url>http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/ 06/2140227</url> It needs to be said.
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ES&S FAQ ...
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1.4 "Is there a reason why my computer is leaning to left now that I'm running the software?"
Yes, it's a well known fact that gravity has a liberal bias.
I worked techsupport at a larger radio station over the summer, we have a whole network of Win95 machines (Hey you try running Audiovault Software and soundcards on anything else...). To prevent the havoc and resulting downtime (which would result in us going off the air) these machines are not connected to the rest of the world, just each other. To add something to the machines we use audio cables and record directly in.
Perhaps a future solution for your friend could involve using a similar system (With printers and hard text) to keep the data secure.
I hate to be belligerent (sp?), and I really don't want to troll, but...
GET OVER YOURSELVE'S FOSS COMMUNITY!
Now, not everyone is guilty of this, but judging by so many of these comments it seems that so many are still stuck in this 1980's "Elite Hacker" mentality.
"Well if you don't know how to recompile your kernel so your sound can work, you don't deserve to be using linux"
The computer is no longer a geek exclusive, it is now being used by *SHOCK* average Joe. If you want to stay relevent don't tell Joe "RTFM you n00b," instead you need to walk him through it, because 50% of the time, the Manual ain't gonna help him.
People shouldn't have to violate (maybe, maybe not, depending on what day it is) U.S. Law to play the most common Digital Music and Video formats out there. Yes, we all know Ogg is superior, but until more people start using it, to Average Joe it is F-ing useless. Average Joe, who, in using linux for his pr0n and mp3z, is NOT spreading ads and viruses. I couldn't care less about market share, I couldn't care less about your "Ideals" over a bunch of 0's and 1's. If a linux distro could, out of the box,
1. Play DvDs
2. Play Common Music Formats (i.e. Mp3, Wma, AAC) (with DRM if possible)
3. Play Flash Correctly
4. Not require the CLI for common, end user tasks
Linux could win tons of converts, and less Average Joe's on Windows means less spam, virii, and ads in your inbox.
Sorry about the rant, bye bye Karma...
"Weird Al is one of my favorite people ever. He's pretty good to his fans, he fights the true fight, and is hilarious to boot. I can't wait for this next album."
If you check out the preorder page for "Straight outta Lynnwood" it looks like it's a great deal.
$13.98 gets me a full audio CD, A second side with all the tracks in 5.1 PCM, Instrumentals for all the tracks, and 9 music videos (with one from that dude who did ren and stimpy). This album looks too good to pirate!
Debian/Ubuntu makes it easy, I can play more formats than windows can before klites codec pack will even finish downloading on windows. I don't know why you are mounting a network share and allowing any media player write support.
/etc/apt/sources.list ... )
(ubuntu users prefix all commands withy sudo, debian users, you should be root)
1. gedit
add deb "http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ breezy free non-free" to the very end
2. add "universe multiverse" to the end of the first two deb lines (usually deb http://us.ubuntu.archive.org/
3. save and close gedit
4. apt-get update
5. apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-multiverse gxine libxine-extracodecs w32codecs totem-xine libdvdcss2 wavepack gxine-plugin vlc
6. Totem and rythmbox can now play almost anything, you also have a vlc option if you want it.
compare that to windows
1. Get on google
2. Search for K-lite codec pack (if you're like me and know what you're looking for)
3. Find a safe site to download it from
4. download it (it was 17 megs last I checked)
5. install it...
6. hope you can (or have a friend who can) sort out the directshow codec hell you now have
7. install quicktime, realplayer (or their alternatives) and vlc
8. Sort out default media player hell
9. now you can play almost anything...
In conclusion, Linux is a little easier (in my opinion), and you need to stop trolling.
I'm having trouble understanding what all the little explosians are... some make sense as software market clashes (IE v. Firefox) but others are scattered around for no apparent reason.
It also seems top be very LOTR where it's the alliance of MAC, JAVA, and GNU against Microsoft. I dont think thats the way its actually happening.
The ESRB ratings are enforced by many retailers. I remember the irony of having to purchase my friend (2 years older than me) Half-Life at a Target, because he forgot his ID card and was told he couldn't buy the game without proof.
</Factual information><rant>
I'm a populist, I think it is the role of the government to protect its citizens. But this is going beyond protection.
I'm a gamer, my parents wouldn't allow to watch R-Rated movies (with or without them) until I was 15. But when I was seven my dad put castle wolfenstein on my PC and he taught me to play DooM so we could test the network. Why? because they understood I could tell the difference between fiction (DooM) and real life.
Sure, there are some people who can't. But these are the people who also think that WWF (or whatever stupid new acronym they are on) is real and should be imitated. These are the people who break their necks trying to fly off a roof (at age 15). These people do need to be shielded from videogames... and television... and all media for that matter. The general population, however, does not.
</rant> <Solution>
This bill is not trying to fix a broken system. A fixing bill would be:
1) No minor under tyhe age of 16 shall purchase video games carrying an M rating by the ESRB
2) No minor shall purchase video games carrying an AO rating by the ESRB
3) Any retailer found selling said rated games to said minors shall face a fine of X dollars.
We do this for movies already in WA, State Law says you must be 17+ to buy your own ticket to an R Rated movie. If parents don't mind their kids playing violent videogames, great, they can buy them.
</solution> <conclusion>
Thompson is simply reacting like the lawyer he is. He is frightened no-one will take him seriously anymore, so he creates a bill that will allow him to continue manipulating and twisting what he can get his hands on. Instead of doing the logical solution (proposed above), the legislature (most of whom have probably never played a video game or understand the ESRB) thought it would be a good idea. Hopefully it'll get amended in the future.
</conclusion>
Site Advisor is an awesome firefox plugin that not only displays whether the site you are at is currently "safe", it also puts a little green check, yello exclamation point, or red x next to popular search engine's results. If you want to see why a site got a certain rating, you can click the check/mark/x or if you're at the site, the colored bar in the bottom of your browser, to see what McAffee found out when they scanned and indexed the site.
I tried Flock in Alpha and, not trying to troll here, but I didn't really like it. It really didn't seem that interesting to me. I guess if I wrote in my blog more, or was a bigger fan of Flickr/Del.cio.us I might derive more use from it. To me though, it was just a slower firefox (with a color scheme that looked like easter exploded).
The reason I'm writing this is to respond to the file alongside songbird comment. I think Songbird is going to be significantly more sucessful in beta, because it has a broader appeal. It is the firefox of media libraries. It aims to replace its main competitor (iTunes/WMP) by using an opensource standard and doing all the things its competitor can do (and hopefully doing them better)
I use ubuntu so the first thing I do is /etc/apt/sources.list
Sudo gedit
and add some repositories, Universe and Multiverse aer a must, also some private ones to get codecs a few necessary programs.
Sudo apt-get update
Sudo apt-get install gstreamer gstreamer-all wget libdvdcss xine-totem mplayer wmcodecs vlc firefox frozenbubble konsole yakuake
After those, I pretty much just get stuff as needed. Ubuntu comes with a lot right off the CD so after that its often just a matter of updating what's already there.
No Wireless.
Less space than a Nomad.
Lame.
Actually you are. Some of the most consistantly popular videos online are what? TV Ads. Some people watch the superbowl solely for commercials. Advertisers are becoming more clever, making ads that are funny, that people want to watch. Thats how the ad industry can redeem itself through the market.
Problem: People not watching ads
MPAA Solution: Force them to watch the ad
Better Solution: Make the ad so they want to watch it.
From what I'm reading it looks like these programs preform all sorts of different executions, thats great and all, but they probably dont behve like real people do. The average user isn't going to create a file and then (in the middle of that) start running the delete file interface. Also I doubt these tests include other common user issues (like clicking the same function over and over again if it doesn't respond immedietly). Maybe I'm just not understanding what these do... but if I'm even half right, real world tests are the way to go.
yamiPod can play, rename, and retransfer music off of an iPod for free.
http://yamipod.com/
And Same as in Linux. Try to delete a system related file, or install something (even from a deb or rpm), or even copy a new icon. You either have to be root, which everyone on here consistantly chides windows users for being to often.
Rhythmbox, It comes with Ubuntu, and it is great. It's like a simpler iTunes. If you use KDE amaroK is OK, juK is more to my tastes though.
It's from the same group and its the only entry in my journal. Ironically enough it's from December and it has almost the exact same suggested questions.
I love some of the combinations on that list.
RE:Trying to install Ubuntu 7.13 -Flashy Ferret.
First disconnect all bling from system and reboot, then allow the kernel time to build a den. I reccomend uninstalling The older Running Rabbit modules before continueing as they will likely be devoured for RAM
Yeah, those *&@#ers.
I remember I was leading a raid group in Molten Core and There was a rare drop of "Firewall" - some chinese farmer completely ninja'd it off me claiming need than hearthing... man It was on Usenet the next day.
Only by linking to the "Internet" and trading can you catch all 151 [aside]thousand[/aside] Viruses.
And in mississippi, my Dad came across an apple IIe for dirt cheap, If I remember correct he got it at an office that had upgraded years ago. I remember thinking, when I went to the little public library and checked out a beginners guide to programming, how much space those huge floppy discs held. After i learned the apple, I got stepped up to an 8086 laptop, complete with dock, then up to a 286 running, among other things, OS/2. Then, through some wierd fluke, I was handed a Mac PowerPC, that coul switch modes between PC and Mac, that was awesome.
Hello, is this tech support?
Well my server seems to be playing Metallica...
Yes I'll hold.
I'm perfectly cool with that...
I mean, if you think about it, these guys have been violating countless international laws since '93...
I hope they get the book thrown at them as well.
In my defense, I have only been working with Livejournal lately. Oh well, should've used preview...
-Dragoonmac
"Too little geek, too much chic"
Instead of waiting for the FCC, why don't you do something yourself. Help in the fight against spyware by visiting the 180solutions website http://www.180solutions.com and pressing f5 a couple times./ 06/2140227</url> It needs to be said.
<br>
I don't care if I go to prison for saying this. <url>http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01