Thank you, after I posted I realized it was something else, but every other "eer" word I could think of I knew wasn't correct. I was expecting at least one Tampa Bay NFL joke by now, so I guess I'll have to make one:
How does a Tampa Bay Buckaneer pirate music? He moves to France and uses DRM free iTunes.
They used the wrong term. State sponsored pirates are called Buckaneers. At least that's what I've learned they were, someone feel free to beat me over the head with Wikipedia.
MS is in danger of becoming the company on the outside looking in. Their document formats have been a nightmare to tech support and average people over the years, and with an open ISO standard looming in the next years, every office product under the sun will be able to read everything else, except perhaps Microsoft's. What companies are going to pay $70+/computer to have Office Vista, when they can have the same functionality and better interoperability with everyone else? North America won't flip to Open Document right away because of Microsoft's influence over both the Canadian and American governments, but Europe will turn as Brazil has, and every other location will follow. I don't want Canada to be stuck in the digital darkage created by Microsoft and proprietary document format wars. I'm going to be pressuring my MP to require government offices to convert to Open Document when it becomes an ISO standard.
The solution seems obvious. We must somehow increase the earth's orbit around the sun to nearly c, since the earth provides adaquate radiation shielding for human life. We'll just have to deal with the tendancy for the earth to fly away from the sun if we increase its orbital speed. That, and sunlight might have trouble reaching the surface of the earth reliably.
"More to the point, why would anyone upgrade to vista now?!?"
Because it has a [Spyware or Linux-esq in appearance or feature] detachable sidebar with network/financial/whatever monitor, detachable clock, and transparent window titlebars, as well as no START word on the Start button.
In other words, window dressing. The demonstration I saw of it had Outlook open faster when the system was under heavy load than when it was started from scratch, and it still took many seconds. The presenter didn't know why the start times were mixed up. It's still a RC he said.
There's also a Firefox-esq search bar in the corner of nearly everything where it starts to search and display as soon as you type, and looks within files too. I don't know what cost the indexing for that has on the system performance, but I bet it doesn't work so well under 128MB of RAM;-)
I had heard initially that IE7 wasn't going to be available for Windows 2000, and assumed that meant it wasn't going to be for XP either. If it works on XP, what would stop it from running on 2000 other than a Microsoft desire to cripple it so that people have one more reason they must leave 2000 which still works fine for most tasks [as long as it's well patched]?
When I upgrade my Intel box, it's going to have an Obscene Edition 666 chip in it that will blow away the competition. There's really no faster processor for hosting porn or bad language.
The "Breen Edition" is perfect for those who like super cooling of their computer.
For the past few months I have been spending a lot of time using my Mini-ITX computer. This was originally a project system which I put together so that I would have something small and silent for my living room, on which I could do a few very basic tasks, like check my email and get on the internet. The first part of the project featured a system which booted Puppy Linux off of a flash USB drive, a solution which was simple and quiet, but not very powerful. In the second part of the project the system was given a new case, improved cooling, and it booted off of a LiveCD and could save to a CF card. As I used the system more I decided the best course of action would be to make a few more changes and increase the system's functionality, despite the impact that this could have on its silent operation.
This time I had some big plans in store for the Mini-ITX box. The plans were, roughly, to install a hard drive, move to a more powerful Linux distribution, and add PVR capabilites to the system. Because the computer was already situated in my living room, making it into a personal video recorder was an obvious choice, though doing this on a Mini-ITX Linux system would surely take a bit of finesse. " -----
I wish that they said what "ITX" means.
PVR is Personal Video Recorder which describes a digital device like a TIVO or MythTV software for a computer system with TV input. I've used an All In Wonder 8500DV to record TV onto my computer, but my biggest roadblock has been poor ATI drivers for Windows that disabled Hibernation, crashes XP, and fails to work well in Linux even as a video card never mind as a TV system.
I'd prefer just the +1 Insightful thank you, instead of the weak kneed moderator(s) that keep modding me "Overrated" because they can't find anything technically wrong with what I write, they just "feel" that it's obscene and needs to be censored.
The only advantage I can think of is for insurance purposes. You can backup the file offsite, and keep a list of your library to be replaced in case of fire or flood. A simpler way would be to take high re pictures of your bookshelves, which is what I did with my CD collection.
Really the best way is by author and then google the title or author when doing a search on a subject in a book he thinks he might have on his shelves. Then just find it by the author.
This is good news. If one jurisdiction deems Fox News to be obscene like it is, then it can be be removed from the air there, and the Supreme Court won't help Murdoch.
BadAnalogyGuy, so what you're saying is that people who talk about KEEPING their right to tinker, are like people talking about KEEPING their right to no upskirt cameras in this post 9/11 Patriot Act II world?
I'm sorry, but are you just disagreeing with me for the sake of disagreeing? Or is there a communication breakdown?
"..you can only install iTunes onto one computer otherwise it will try to delete the music you've put on the iPod from the other computer." Right. And this other program addresses that, AND I can move the files I put on the iPod, off of the iPod since they aren't encrypted with DRM, and remain valid Windows files. Granted I've not seen firsthand what the iTunes does to prevent file copy from the iPod, but I'll take others at their word that Apple DRMs the files to stop file copies.
I recently came into possession of a free iPod Shuffle, and since I was away from home I put it on my laptop at work. I learned a day later that you can only install iTunes onto one computer otherwise it will try to delete the music you've put on the iPod from the other computer.
Thinking that was a pretty crappy way to operate something that should be as easy to add music to as copying files though My Computer to the iPod removable drive, I did a google search that would be illegal in the United States of America.
I came up with this: software that operates the Shuffle without running iTunes * which allows me to copy music to my iPod and generate a playlist without iTunes messing up my life. *Offer void in the United States of America. Turnabout from the infamous [at least in the Rest of the World] "Offer void outside of the USA" is pretty sweet I do say so myself.
You're wrong on all accounts. I'm Canadian, and am not demanding the software, I'm providing feedback to the Slashgeek community about what I think makes the best applications in this day and any age. People have always wanted blazing fast apps. We'd still play C-64 games if it didn't take a minute to load some of them. A great app doesn't mean it can do everything under the sun. Opening in under 2 seconds is a cooler feature than a grammar checker for something like a spreadsheet or database.
"we have about 5 devs that are working on this, and a few that come and go. So code up or shut up."
Assuming you're on the Sunbird team [or lightning] and were wondering why no one but 4 others are helping you, your attitude might play a loarge roll. Not everyone can code well enough to help in that regard, so if you don't take constructive criticism, try taking your own advice and code up AND shut up, and let Mozilla's PR team handle the public.
The Outlook reason is that you can notify others by email when you'll be booking a room or away for a meeting.
I don't understand hy the integration is taking so long. Sunbird has been around for a year or more and it's slow as molassas in February. I try to use it but it's such a hog that it pains me to leave it running. It should be 500Kb big, and open in 2 seconds on a P4. This is 2006, we should be demanding applications that open in blazing speeds, not more features.
With the dawn of RFID in stores, there may be a day when just putting an item in a shopping cart will ring it up on your credit card. Online is moving that way too, your toaster will order bread, your fridge more milk, and your oven will order a ready made roast. Then we'll wonder why everyone has too much sodium in their diet, but that's another story.
The advent of Adblock will likely have an affect on how ads are delivered online. How that will be is anyone's guess by my personal one is that companies will hire helper monkeys to deliver online junk mail to your door using IPv6 to locate your home, which will work because the tiny hands will be able to use mail slots most efficiently without being blocked. Expect a spike in "anti-spam gaurd dog" stocks.
Save the environment and stop tossing "boat anchors" into the water. Take that P3 pile in the corner, and add another NIC or two and create a M0n0wall BSD firewall for free. PFSense has fail over capability built in, and you can traffic shape without paying Cisco a fortune.
It was presented by a Microsoft employee out of Calgary. It has Windows Defender, and he showed us how people will simply click install, and screw things up anyway.
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Thank you, after I posted I realized it was something else, but every other "eer" word I could think of I knew wasn't correct. I was expecting at least one Tampa Bay NFL joke by now, so I guess I'll have to make one:
How does a Tampa Bay Buckaneer pirate music?
He moves to France and uses DRM free iTunes.
They used the wrong term. State sponsored pirates are called Buckaneers. At least that's what I've learned they were, someone feel free to beat me over the head with Wikipedia.
MS is in danger of becoming the company on the outside looking in. Their document formats have been a nightmare to tech support and average people over the years, and with an open ISO standard looming in the next years, every office product under the sun will be able to read everything else, except perhaps Microsoft's. What companies are going to pay $70+/computer to have Office Vista, when they can have the same functionality and better interoperability with everyone else? North America won't flip to Open Document right away because of Microsoft's influence over both the Canadian and American governments, but Europe will turn as Brazil has, and every other location will follow.
I don't want Canada to be stuck in the digital darkage created by Microsoft and proprietary document format wars. I'm going to be pressuring my MP to require government offices to convert to Open Document when it becomes an ISO standard.
The solution seems obvious. We must somehow increase the earth's orbit around the sun to nearly c, since the earth provides adaquate radiation shielding for human life. We'll just have to deal with the tendancy for the earth to fly away from the sun if we increase its orbital speed. That, and sunlight might have trouble reaching the surface of the earth reliably.
"More to the point, why would anyone upgrade to vista now?!?"
;-)
Because it has a [Spyware or Linux-esq in appearance or feature] detachable sidebar with network/financial/whatever monitor, detachable clock, and transparent window titlebars, as well as no START word on the Start button.
In other words, window dressing. The demonstration I saw of it had Outlook open faster when the system was under heavy load than when it was started from scratch, and it still took many seconds. The presenter didn't know why the start times were mixed up. It's still a RC he said.
There's also a Firefox-esq search bar in the corner of nearly everything where it starts to search and display as soon as you type, and looks within files too. I don't know what cost the indexing for that has on the system performance, but I bet it doesn't work so well under 128MB of RAM
I had heard initially that IE7 wasn't going to be available for Windows 2000, and assumed that meant it wasn't going to be for XP either. If it works on XP, what would stop it from running on 2000 other than a Microsoft desire to cripple it so that people have one more reason they must leave 2000 which still works fine for most tasks [as long as it's well patched]?
When I upgrade my Intel box, it's going to have an Obscene Edition 666 chip in it that will blow away the competition. There's really no faster processor for hosting porn or bad language.
The "Breen Edition" is perfect for those who like super cooling of their computer.
" Mini-ITX Part III
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
Page 1 of 7
By: Sal Cangeloso
For the past few months I have been spending a lot of time using my Mini-ITX computer. This was originally a project system which I put together so that I would have something small and silent for my living room, on which I could do a few very basic tasks, like check my email and get on the internet. The first part of the project featured a system which booted Puppy Linux off of a flash USB drive, a solution which was simple and quiet, but not very powerful. In the second part of the project the system was given a new case, improved cooling, and it booted off of a LiveCD and could save to a CF card. As I used the system more I decided the best course of action would be to make a few more changes and increase the system's functionality, despite the impact that this could have on its silent operation.
This time I had some big plans in store for the Mini-ITX box. The plans were, roughly, to install a hard drive, move to a more powerful Linux distribution, and add PVR capabilites to the system. Because the computer was already situated in my living room, making it into a personal video recorder was an obvious choice, though doing this on a Mini-ITX Linux system would surely take a bit of finesse. "
-----
I wish that they said what "ITX" means.
PVR is Personal Video Recorder which describes a digital device like a TIVO or MythTV software for a computer system with TV input.
I've used an All In Wonder 8500DV to record TV onto my computer, but my biggest roadblock has been poor ATI drivers for Windows that disabled Hibernation, crashes XP, and fails to work well in Linux even as a video card never mind as a TV system.
I'd prefer just the +1 Insightful thank you, instead of the weak kneed moderator(s) that keep modding me "Overrated" because they can't find anything technically wrong with what I write, they just "feel" that it's obscene and needs to be censored.
The only advantage I can think of is for insurance purposes. You can backup the file offsite, and keep a list of your library to be replaced in case of fire or flood. A simpler way would be to take high re pictures of your bookshelves, which is what I did with my CD collection.
Really the best way is by author and then google the title or author when doing a search on a subject in a book he thinks he might have on his shelves. Then just find it by the author.
"but I know the question will be asked, hence the post."
/. question for a new product is:
The more common
"Oh yeah, but does it run Linux?"
And the answer is:
In Soviet Russia, Firefox 2.0 alpha runs Linux!
This is good news. If one jurisdiction deems Fox News to be obscene like it is, then it can be be removed from the air there, and the Supreme Court won't help Murdoch.
"what makes people use Linux instead of Windows and add that functionality to Windows,"
It's all about removing features. For starters remove the activation, and the $400 price tag on XP Pro.
BadAnalogyGuy, so what you're saying is that people who talk about KEEPING their right to tinker, are like people talking about KEEPING their right to no upskirt cameras in this post 9/11 Patriot Act II world?
I'm sorry, but are you just disagreeing with me for the sake of disagreeing? Or is there a communication breakdown?
"..you can only install iTunes onto one computer otherwise it will try to delete the music you've put on the iPod from the other computer."
Right. And this other program addresses that, AND I can move the files I put on the iPod, off of the iPod since they aren't encrypted with DRM, and remain valid Windows files. Granted I've not seen firsthand what the iTunes does to prevent file copy from the iPod, but I'll take others at their word that Apple DRMs the files to stop file copies.
"Remember, even in manual mode you will not be able to copy music from your iPod back to iTunes."
With my iPod music, I can drag a mp3 file from the iPod drive to my hard drive in Explorer. Can your manual mode do that?
I recently came into possession of a free iPod Shuffle, and since I was away from home I put it on my laptop at work. I learned a day later that you can only install iTunes onto one computer otherwise it will try to delete the music you've put on the iPod from the other computer.
Thinking that was a pretty crappy way to operate something that should be as easy to add music to as copying files though My Computer to the iPod removable drive, I did a google search that would be illegal in the United States of America.
I came up with this:
software that operates the Shuffle without running iTunes *
which allows me to copy music to my iPod and generate a playlist without iTunes messing up my life.
*Offer void in the United States of America. Turnabout from the infamous [at least in the Rest of the World] "Offer void outside of the USA" is pretty sweet I do say so myself.
"critical applications"
Are you wondering too if the Porn collection will be safe? And does it suffer from wear if the same file is read over and over again?
Sorry, it's a standard Slashdot joke when storage is mentioned. Just be glad I didn't ask how many Libraries of Congress it can hold.
You're wrong on all accounts. I'm Canadian, and am not demanding the software, I'm providing feedback to the Slashgeek community about what I think makes the best applications in this day and any age. People have always wanted blazing fast apps. We'd still play C-64 games if it didn't take a minute to load some of them. A great app doesn't mean it can do everything under the sun. Opening in under 2 seconds is a cooler feature than a grammar checker for something like a spreadsheet or database.
"we have about 5 devs that are working on this, and a few that come and go. So code up or shut up."
Assuming you're on the Sunbird team [or lightning] and were wondering why no one but 4 others are helping you, your attitude might play a loarge roll. Not everyone can code well enough to help in that regard, so if you don't take constructive criticism, try taking your own advice and code up AND shut up, and let Mozilla's PR team handle the public.
The Outlook reason is that you can notify others by email when you'll be booking a room or away for a meeting.
I don't understand hy the integration is taking so long. Sunbird has been around for a year or more and it's slow as molassas in February. I try to use it but it's such a hog that it pains me to leave it running. It should be 500Kb big, and open in 2 seconds on a P4. This is 2006, we should be demanding applications that open in blazing speeds, not more features.
The MIT study has been addressed here:
http://www.abandonedstuff.com/petfoilhat.html
See the news section.
With the dawn of RFID in stores, there may be a day when just putting an item in a shopping cart will ring it up on your credit card. Online is moving that way too, your toaster will order bread, your fridge more milk, and your oven will order a ready made roast. Then we'll wonder why everyone has too much sodium in their diet, but that's another story.
The advent of Adblock will likely have an affect on how ads are delivered online. How that will be is anyone's guess by my personal one is that companies will hire helper monkeys to deliver online junk mail to your door using IPv6 to locate your home, which will work because the tiny hands will be able to use mail slots most efficiently without being blocked. Expect a spike in "anti-spam gaurd dog" stocks.
Save the environment and stop tossing "boat anchors" into the water. Take that P3 pile in the corner, and add another NIC or two and create a M0n0wall BSD firewall for free. PFSense has fail over capability built in, and you can traffic shape without paying Cisco a fortune.
It was presented by a Microsoft employee out of Calgary.
It has Windows Defender, and he showed us how people will simply click install, and screw things up anyway.