For file/app servers, yes, you want power, redundancy and all that. For a domain controller/NAT/Firwall/etc... server, you don't need any of that. That's all pretty light stuff in all but the largest LANs.
DRM prtected AAC files. And no, you can't play them on other MP3 players. Well, that's not 100% true. You can burn the songs to CD and then rip them to MP3 and play them wherever you want. But that might be more work than you want to do.
And before that it was badly encoded songs at crappy bitrates, every comedy song on the planet labeled as being sung by Weird Al, misslabeled songs, porn soundtracks, etc...
The simple fact is that the P2P networks are so full of garbage as to make hem not worth the effort. And it's always been like that. Anyone who's tried them out can tell you that.
With a legal source you dion't really have to worry about the sabotage files, the misnamed files and the crappy encodings. And you can preview anything before you decide to buy it. Every track on iTunes can be previewed.
I tried subscrition based music purchases. And they don't really work that well. Emusic tried to make a go at it, but never managed to get much content that I actually wanted to buy. I found myself downloading crap I only half liked bacause I didn't want my subscription fee for that particular month to go to waste.
The thing I've noticed about iTMS is that I have purchased a lot of music that I actually like. Because I have to pay per song I'm pickier about what I download and I don't feel any preasure to download X number of songs in a month just to feel like I got my monies worth.
Subscription is great if the source has a lot of stuff you like and you don't have much of an established collection.
If you have an old PC with two NICs and don't want to buy a Linksys box. Or, if you want more control of your system and need SSH. The Linksys boxes do a pretty good job and work for most people. Some people want more control and power. That and some people just like building their own.
No, their actions support getting the cheapest OS they can find. If IBM released OS/2 5.0, with a full office suite and a browser for less than what Sun is asking they would dump Sun in a hot second.
The thing to remember with Wal-Mart is that they have no allegiance to anyone but their board of directors and no motive but to squeez the maximum amount of blood from every stone they can reach. The minute another platform/OS becomes more profitable for them they will leave Linux is the dust.
Selling something isn't the same as supporting it. They are simply milking Linux for money. Nothing more.
It's not the technology that is the problem. File formats are nothing but file formats. What they contain is meaningless.
No, the problem is the complete lack of respect for his intellectual property rights on the part of the people downloading his music. That's the problem.
Maybe you don't give a damn about IP. Maybe you've never toiled to create something. Maybe you've never tried to make your dream pay your rent.
Yes, but the resource is there if you ever need it. I haven't called the police in 13 years, and even then it was to report an automobile accident I saw, but I don't mind paying taxes in order for them to be there when I need them.
There are a lot of public resources I don't choose to use that I don't mind paying for. Not everything is about me.
Every time there is a story about someone doing something just for the hell of it some tool comes along and says that it's a bad idea because it doesn't directly enrich Linux/Open Source/The Roman Empire/Whatever in the manner that said poster wants it to.
Dude, and all of your close-minded brethren, chill the hell out. People do these things because they are having fun. They do them because they WANT to.
Not everyoine gives a damn about Fighting The Big Fight. Get over yourself.
Orrin Hatch was the tool that blabbed that we knew Bin Ladden was responcible for 9/11 before we knew where he was. Thus giving Bin Laden a heads-up and letting him get away. The man is just about the worst scum on this earth.
You get over it. There is nothing you can label something that will not eventually offend somebody. Period. There are so many thin-skinned people out there that would rather get offended and raise a ruckus rather than spend ten seconds educating themselves as to the real meaning of something that it is rediculous.
Here's a test for you. Try using the word "niggardly" in a sentence and see how many thin-skinned feebs decide to tar and feather you for being a racist.
People need to get over their accute desire to be offended at every stupid little thing and just get on with life. And governements, of all sizes, need to stop wasting time and taxpayer money on useless, pointless bullshit and work on real problems.
Do you even know why we went to the moon in the first place? Scientific research? Not even close. It was a penis-wagging contest with the Russians. They beat us into space. Badly. - First man-made object to orbit the earth: Russian - First live animal in space: Russian - First human in space: Russian, and not just into space, into orbit.
The first American into space didn't even orbit the earth.
Kennedy knew that we had to beat the Russians in a way that could never be topped: first to the moon. The single biggest government project this side of the Manhattan Project. Kenney told us to go, and because he died a hero, we busted our asses making sure we did it.
Then we got there and looked around and looked at the money we spent getting there and at the sad shape of the Russian space program and we knew we won. We didn't need to go back. It was too expensive for what we could get out of it. The world had changed since 1961 and we could no longer justify such grandious actions in the continuation of the Cold War.
As far as the IIS, that's a sad joke. But it's all we can pull off. We don't have the political need to do anything bigger. Who are in a space race with? Pakistan? India? China? Hardly. And so what? We're not in an ideological war of attrition with any of them.
As for the Belt, we can't get there. Not safely and not profittably.
As for the eggs, this is the only basket we know of. Period. None of the other planets in the Solar system can be terraformed into anything we can live on and we don't know of any earth-like worlds anywhere else.
If you read the Forbes artical, you'll see that it has a set of small wheels in the front that deploy when the vehicle is at rest, moving at less than 12MPH or when the brakes are applied.
I have a 533Mhz Via Mini-ITX motherboard driving my file server. Here's what I built: MB: Via 533Mhz Mini-ITX Video: Built into MB, crap, but who cares? NIC: 100 Base-TX built into motherboard RAM: 1x 512MB DIMM Storage:
- 1x 20GB Maxtor hard drive for the OS
- 2x Maxtor 120GB drives plugged into a Promise Ultra 66 PCI IDE controller, mirrored Case: Some old piece of crap mid-tower ATX case PSU: PC Power and Cooling 300W
It's not uber-leet, but it gets the job done. The system also has a minimum of fans: on for the PSU and one for the drives. Neither the CPU nor the video have fans.
My needs were for a reasonably large capacity (yeah, 120 MB is hardly "large" anymore), reasonable responciveness, low-as-possible power consumption and noise.
I wouldn't use this thing in a production environment or as a mission critical system, but for a home file server feeding files out to four/five client systems it works fine. (And yes, I am planning to put a backup system in there.)
This attrocity tha these idiots specced out is a sad and pathetic joke.
And why was the popup invented? Because we started ignoring banner ads. When they disciovered that banner ads didn't work they moved on to a new model. When popups stop working they'll move to a new model.
How, exactly, is this even an issue? Sure, they'll come up with some nasty crap that takes over your broswer and most broswers will come up with a fix in very shiort order and MS will take three years to fix it.
The technology war between the force-feed advertisers and the human race is nothing new. We'll figure out how to deal with it as it comes.
Why should Apple port OS-X to i386, or any other platform? Apple is a hardware company that makes their software to facilitate the purchase and use of their hardware. They have nothing to gain from porting to another platform, especially one as open and varied as the i386 platform, except the mother of all support headaches.
1: Only 15-year olds spell Microsoft with a "$". Grow up. 2: MP3 and OGG are not going to cut it for downloadable music sales. Like it or not, the majore musoc corporations are going to DEMAND some form of DRM. Period. (Emusic gets by on MP3 because most of what they carry isn't selling for squat anyway.) 3: Outside of the/. community, no one cares about OGG. 4: ACC is part of the MPEG4 standard. Apple doesn'y own it. They just chose to use it as their preferred format.
Apple may add OGG support some day, but I really doubt they are going to put WMV support in their players.
No. The real point is that what works for you might not work for me and I really should know if a product will work for me before I dump 400-500 clams on it.
Take mice for example. I'm a long-time fan of the Logitech Trackman Marble trackball with the ball under the right thumb. This trackball (and the Microsoft clone) is perfect for me and I have one on every computer I own. Is it perfect for you? Maybe, maybe not. I can easily think of five reasons why you might want to look at something else: 1: Are you left-handed, you might want to look at a trackball with the ball in the center. 2: Are you right-handed, but mouse with your left hand? See #1 3: Do you play a lot of FPS games? You might want to get a good optical Mouse. 4: Do you have mobility issues with your thumb? Try a mouse. 5: Do you just not like trackballs? Use a mouse.
The author is simply pointing put that even the best of breed might not be the best for each and every person.
And no, I do not own an iPod, yet. It's high on my list for my next upgrade cycle. I really like them and want one. But I wouldn't give one to my wife. She needs something lighter, smaller and with longer batteries, and most of all, cheaper. She can kill a portable music device in very short order.
The issues with the iPod and online music services are these: 1: The iPod does not suppiort WMA files (or Ogg, but we knew that) 2: You can't sync with iTunes and any other program on the same iPod.
The practicle upshot is that you should be using iTunes to sync and you need to make sure that your media files are supported. Emusic MP3s work just fine. Other companies' WMA files do not. At least, for now. Apple might add WMA support to the iPod (and monkeys might fly out of my ass).
Slashdot Mirror
It is running Linux. A friend of mine is looking into buying one of them.
For file/app servers, yes, you want power, redundancy and all that. For a domain controller/NAT/Firwall/etc... server, you don't need any of that. That's all pretty light stuff in all but the largest LANs.
I don't know. The whole Luke kissing his sister thing is a pretty huge shock.
DRM prtected AAC files. And no, you can't play them on other MP3 players. Well, that's not 100% true. You can burn the songs to CD and then rip them to MP3 and play them wherever you want. But that might be more work than you want to do.
And before that it was badly encoded songs at crappy bitrates, every comedy song on the planet labeled as being sung by Weird Al, misslabeled songs, porn soundtracks, etc...
The simple fact is that the P2P networks are so full of garbage as to make hem not worth the effort. And it's always been like that. Anyone who's tried them out can tell you that.
With a legal source you dion't really have to worry about the sabotage files, the misnamed files and the crappy encodings. And you can preview anything before you decide to buy it. Every track on iTunes can be previewed.
I tried subscrition based music purchases. And they don't really work that well. Emusic tried to make a go at it, but never managed to get much content that I actually wanted to buy. I found myself downloading crap I only half liked bacause I didn't want my subscription fee for that particular month to go to waste.
The thing I've noticed about iTMS is that I have purchased a lot of music that I actually like. Because I have to pay per song I'm pickier about what I download and I don't feel any preasure to download X number of songs in a month just to feel like I got my monies worth.
Subscription is great if the source has a lot of stuff you like and you don't have much of an established collection.
If you have an old PC with two NICs and don't want to buy a Linksys box. Or, if you want more control of your system and need SSH. The Linksys boxes do a pretty good job and work for most people. Some people want more control and power. That and some people just like building their own.
No, their actions support getting the cheapest OS they can find. If IBM released OS/2 5.0, with a full office suite and a browser for less than what Sun is asking they would dump Sun in a hot second.
The thing to remember with Wal-Mart is that they have no allegiance to anyone but their board of directors and no motive but to squeez the maximum amount of blood from every stone they can reach. The minute another platform/OS becomes more profitable for them they will leave Linux is the dust.
Selling something isn't the same as supporting it. They are simply milking Linux for money. Nothing more.
But they don't. They don't give a rat's cancerous colon about Open Source. What they care about is cheap.
Hey! Get offa my lawn! Danged kids. No respect these days.
I never saw what anyone saw in it. It was, IMO, garbage. The stories were laughable at best and lame at worst.
It's not the technology that is the problem. File formats are nothing but file formats. What they contain is meaningless.
No, the problem is the complete lack of respect for his intellectual property rights on the part of the people downloading his music. That's the problem.
Maybe you don't give a damn about IP. Maybe you've never toiled to create something. Maybe you've never tried to make your dream pay your rent.
Your cavalier attitude is bullshit.
Yes, but the resource is there if you ever need it. I haven't called the police in 13 years, and even then it was to report an automobile accident I saw, but I don't mind paying taxes in order for them to be there when I need them.
There are a lot of public resources I don't choose to use that I don't mind paying for. Not everything is about me.
Every time there is a story about someone doing something just for the hell of it some tool comes along and says that it's a bad idea because it doesn't directly enrich Linux/Open Source/The Roman Empire/Whatever in the manner that said poster wants it to.
Dude, and all of your close-minded brethren, chill the hell out. People do these things because they are having fun. They do them because they WANT to.
Not everyoine gives a damn about Fighting The Big Fight. Get over yourself.
Orrin Hatch was the tool that blabbed that we knew Bin Ladden was responcible for 9/11 before we knew where he was. Thus giving Bin Laden a heads-up and letting him get away. The man is just about the worst scum on this earth.
Here's a test for you. Try using the word "niggardly" in a sentence and see how many thin-skinned feebs decide to tar and feather you for being a racist.
People need to get over their accute desire to be offended at every stupid little thing and just get on with life. And governements, of all sizes, need to stop wasting time and taxpayer money on useless, pointless bullshit and work on real problems.
Do you even know why we went to the moon in the first place? Scientific research? Not even close. It was a penis-wagging contest with the Russians. They beat us into space. Badly.
- First man-made object to orbit the earth: Russian
- First live animal in space: Russian
- First human in space: Russian, and not just into space, into orbit.
The first American into space didn't even orbit the earth.
Kennedy knew that we had to beat the Russians in a way that could never be topped: first to the moon. The single biggest government project this side of the Manhattan Project. Kenney told us to go, and because he died a hero, we busted our asses making sure we did it.
Then we got there and looked around and looked at the money we spent getting there and at the sad shape of the Russian space program and we knew we won. We didn't need to go back. It was too expensive for what we could get out of it. The world had changed since 1961 and we could no longer justify such grandious actions in the continuation of the Cold War.
As far as the IIS, that's a sad joke. But it's all we can pull off. We don't have the political need to do anything bigger. Who are in a space race with? Pakistan? India? China? Hardly. And so what? We're not in an ideological war of attrition with any of them.
As for the Belt, we can't get there. Not safely and not profittably.
As for the eggs, this is the only basket we know of. Period. None of the other planets in the Solar system can be terraformed into anything we can live on and we don't know of any earth-like worlds anywhere else.
If you read the Forbes artical, you'll see that it has a set of small wheels in the front that deploy when the vehicle is at rest, moving at less than 12MPH or when the brakes are applied.
I have a 533Mhz Via Mini-ITX motherboard driving my file server. Here's what I built:
MB: Via 533Mhz Mini-ITX
Video: Built into MB, crap, but who cares?
NIC: 100 Base-TX built into motherboard
RAM: 1x 512MB DIMM
Storage:
- 1x 20GB Maxtor hard drive for the OS
- 2x Maxtor 120GB drives plugged into a Promise Ultra 66 PCI IDE controller, mirrored
Case: Some old piece of crap mid-tower ATX case
PSU: PC Power and Cooling 300W
It's not uber-leet, but it gets the job done. The system also has a minimum of fans: on for the PSU and one for the drives. Neither the CPU nor the video have fans.
My needs were for a reasonably large capacity (yeah, 120 MB is hardly "large" anymore), reasonable responciveness, low-as-possible power consumption and noise.
I wouldn't use this thing in a production environment or as a mission critical system, but for a home file server feeding files out to four/five client systems it works fine. (And yes, I am planning to put a backup system in there.)
This attrocity tha these idiots specced out is a sad and pathetic joke.
Insightful? How about "bloody obvious"?
And why was the popup invented? Because we started ignoring banner ads. When they disciovered that banner ads didn't work they moved on to a new model. When popups stop working they'll move to a new model.
How, exactly, is this even an issue? Sure, they'll come up with some nasty crap that takes over your broswer and most broswers will come up with a fix in very shiort order and MS will take three years to fix it.
The technology war between the force-feed advertisers and the human race is nothing new. We'll figure out how to deal with it as it comes.
The first time I heard my Orchod do that I freaked! It was like playing Qbert in the arcade!
Why should Apple port OS-X to i386, or any other platform? Apple is a hardware company that makes their software to facilitate the purchase and use of their hardware. They have nothing to gain from porting to another platform, especially one as open and varied as the i386 platform, except the mother of all support headaches.
1: Only 15-year olds spell Microsoft with a "$". Grow up. /. community, no one cares about OGG.
2: MP3 and OGG are not going to cut it for downloadable music sales. Like it or not, the majore musoc corporations are going to DEMAND some form of DRM. Period. (Emusic gets by on MP3 because most of what they carry isn't selling for squat anyway.)
3: Outside of the
4: ACC is part of the MPEG4 standard. Apple doesn'y own it. They just chose to use it as their preferred format.
Apple may add OGG support some day, but I really doubt they are going to put WMV support in their players.
No. The real point is that what works for you might not work for me and I really should know if a product will work for me before I dump 400-500 clams on it.
Take mice for example. I'm a long-time fan of the Logitech Trackman Marble trackball with the ball under the right thumb. This trackball (and the Microsoft clone) is perfect for me and I have one on every computer I own. Is it perfect for you? Maybe, maybe not. I can easily think of five reasons why you might want to look at something else:
1: Are you left-handed, you might want to look at a trackball with the ball in the center.
2: Are you right-handed, but mouse with your left hand? See #1
3: Do you play a lot of FPS games? You might want to get a good optical Mouse.
4: Do you have mobility issues with your thumb? Try a mouse.
5: Do you just not like trackballs? Use a mouse.
The author is simply pointing put that even the best of breed might not be the best for each and every person.
And no, I do not own an iPod, yet. It's high on my list for my next upgrade cycle. I really like them and want one. But I wouldn't give one to my wife. She needs something lighter, smaller and with longer batteries, and most of all, cheaper. She can kill a portable music device in very short order.
The issues with the iPod and online music services are these:
1: The iPod does not suppiort WMA files (or Ogg, but we knew that)
2: You can't sync with iTunes and any other program on the same iPod.
The practicle upshot is that you should be using iTunes to sync and you need to make sure that your media files are supported. Emusic MP3s work just fine. Other companies' WMA files do not. At least, for now. Apple might add WMA support to the iPod (and monkeys might fly out of my ass).