Vaseline? Why on God's green earth wiould you use Vaseline? It will give you the shits like mad! KY, Astrolube, or any other water based lube is what you need.
Maybe if you tried one of those you wouldn't be so damned grumpy.
Well, let's say you are listening to an album (CD for you youngsters) and the music on the album flows together. A concept album, if you will. There might be songs on that album that go well with the rest of the music, but don't really work out on their own. You might rate one of those songs a "two". Other songs on the album really kick ass and you like to listen to them at any time. So...
You create a smart playlist that plays only songs with better than three stars with appropriate genre and year settings. When you select this playlist your player bounces around playing the songs that meet your criteria.
Okay, now you want to listen to that particular almbum from start to finish. You select that album from the browser and your player playes every song from beginning to end. Even the ones that don't make since as stand-alone songs or that you only really like in conext with the rest of the album.
See? Flexibility without having to setup 50,000 different playlists with different sets of links to teh same bloody files.
Paying for good music is a great idea as it keeps great music coming. It's paying for shit that is stupid and detrimental.
Think you for stating the obvious. But the problem here is this: what you consider good, I might consider to be garbage. I loathe rap, hiphop, country (with the exception of Johnny Cash and a very few others), disco, bubblegum pop, thrash, death metal and that awful Pat Boone/Osmonds white-washed bland middle America crap. Does that make all of those forms of music crap and the artists that make it talentless?
No. It simply means that I don't like it. I'm sure that there are many people here that like music that I don't and I'm willing to bet money that I like music that other people here do not.
So, how do we decide which is the wrong artist and which isn't?
I built a file/print server out of a VIA EPIA 500Mhz unit and it works fine. I built mine in a huge ATX case as I am running a pair of mirrored 120GB drives off of a Promise controller along with a single hard drive dedicated to the OS (Win2K Server). The system handles it's task quite nicely, even with all four workstations hitting it at once.
I think you'll be happy with the results of your system.
I have three Mini ITX-based systems in my house. One of them being a file/print server. The server because the motherboard has no fans and a 500Mhz C3 is more than enough to dio what that system does. One is a tiny system hiding in the entertainment center in my living room. It does its job: playing old Win9x/DOS games and MP3s just fine. The third is in my wife's computer.
In each of these situations the system does what is needed. The server doesn't need any more speed, only more drives, which I took care of with an old Promis IDE card I had in a pile of unused stuff, and my wife's idea of a rip-snorting good time is playing Freecell. Upgradability isn't a consideration in the design of those systems.
The only part of the equation that raises the price above "traditional" PCs is if you decide to go to using the ultra-small cases and the laptop drives they require. But even then the increase is not on the order of $1,000.00.
Cooling isn't an issue, either. Most mini ITX systems run very cool and use so little power it's insane (I had to sell a 450 watt PSU to a friend because the mini ITX board in that system didn't draw enough power to keep it alive).
Foy YOU mini ITX systems don't make sense. But don't think that what's important to YOU is important to everyone else. For many people computers are not the nerd equivelant of hot rods, but are simply tools to be used for a specific set of jobs and they'd really like to get that tombstone-sized block of steel out of the house.
That garbage got an "insightful"? Are the mods on crack?
AOL, while being famous for being "The Dummies Back DIrt Road To The Interweb" does have its advantages for many people. You can get online almost anywhere in the USA with AOL. And some of the filtering components are welcomed by people with children.
Not everyone who signs up for AOL is an idiot. Just like not everyone on Slashdot is an elitist prick, though most responces to this article would suggest otherwise.
The fundimental point, whiich many people seem to be missing because it is, afterall, just AOL dealing with its herds of slack-jawed moron customers, is whether your ISP has the right to make changes to your system for you without your knowledge or consent.
Since when does it make a difference whether it's white-hat or black-hat? Someone is still breaking into my system (not that I use AOL, but it's the principle of the matter) and making changes to my system without my knowledge or my EXPRESSED permission.
My ISP's ability to futz with the network ends at the ports on my firewall (or PC if I was so stupid as to not have a firewall). They can block any ports they want at thier router. They can close me out at their router. They can drop my ethernet connection completely if they want. It's their network and they have that right. But they don't have the right to touch anything on my system. Ever.
Again, as a matter of opinion: P2P blows, people lie,...
And not just lie, but many of them are stupid as hell. Why is it, for instance, that every parody song out there is by Weird Al? Even the ones he never sang?
Bootlegs of their concerts, yes. But they don't want you sharing their (not quite as much fun as the concert recordings) studio releases. I don't really have a problem with that.
I've already got more CDs than I have room to store. It's not that I buy a lot of CDs, it's that I've been buying them since the 1980s. The collection tends to build up after a while. And while I do like to look at the artwork and such, it hasn't been the same since the death of the 33-1/3 LP with it's nice 12" package.
And more and more I'm finding that I don't like all of teh songs an many new releases. Most new releases I might like one or two songs and hate the rest. Combined with living in a place with crappy selection and higher than average prices, the incentive to buy an entiire CD is just not there.
Sure, I could buy CDs from Amazon and wait for my CDs to arrive, I'm still usually spending more than I want to, or I'm waiting longer than I care to. (I buy from Amazon because they are one of the few retailors that will ship USPS to Alaska and not completely rape me on the shipping charges.)
While online purchases isn't the perfect sollution ofr everyone, or for all situations, it works for me.
This is a valid point. I can't put the songs from iTunes onto my Nomad Jukebox, unless I burn them to CD and Rip them back first. I can put the songs I buy from MusicMatch on my Nomad with no problems.
And this should be no suprise at all, really. iTunes is, afterall, a tool for getting you to buy an iPod. Sure, it's a great music player that does all kinds of neat things, but it is still aimed at getting you to buy an iPod.
Don't get me wrong, I like and use iTunes for Windows. And I want (eat brains!) an iPod.
Sorry, but you don't know Jack. My system has IE 5.0, unpatched, un-upgraded and never used. iTunes runs just fine. Why the hell would Apple use IE when they already have a powerful browser of their own that they can use without a lisence from anybody?
If you are going to make shit up, at least try to be reasonable about it.
I've shown a lot of people "Spirited Away", even my Americentric mother-in-law. Once you explain that ghosts and spirits are not automatically evil in Japanese story telling most people really get the movie.
Actuially, it was released in the USA. As a travesty called "Warriors Of The Wind". And even though it was horribly hacked and mangled, it was still a good movie.
Nausicaa was previously released in the US as Warriors Of The Wind", whic is one of the worst Amricanizations of a foreign film I have ever seen. Not only was the dialogue badly rewritten, but entire subplots were removed. Even so, it was still a pretty good movie and I didn't realize how badly they had mangled it until I saw a Chinese pirate copy of the original (in Japanese with English subtitles).
You can't buy music from the iTunes store, but you can still use the rest of the features. So, you are still getting a very good MP3 player with some very cool sorting functions and whatnot for free.
If you can present a valid reason for having a server doing a particular job, then take it up with the IT departments and see if you can get a server colocated in a server area. With the eeception of SSH, any valid server functions you listed above can be setup in a centralized server environment.
As for your SSH client disk, why are you running your programs on someone elses' computer? If you really want transportable data, put copies of your files on a USB thumbdrive.
Forget the whole college thing. The students that go there and live in the dorm have chosen that location as their home for 4 or 5 years. In doing so they should be given the ability to act like its their home.
So they should be allowed to crank up their stereos as loud as they want? How about smoking in the hallways? Why not let them crap in the sinks when they feel like it? It's their home, isn't it?
No, it's not. It's the collective home of everyone living in the dorm. As such, the residence of said dorm should behave in ways that do not unfairly infringe on the comfort and livability of other students.
And just like students should be respecting the rights and comfort of other studnts, they should be respecting the access rights of other students. Hogging the network downloading boatloads iof music and DivX rips of movies is hardly fair to the students trying to do research, read email, or do other "legitimite" business on the network.
The network, like life, isn't just about you. Stop being so selfish for a while.
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Vaseline? Why on God's green earth wiould you use Vaseline? It will give you the shits like mad! KY, Astrolube, or any other water based lube is what you need.
Maybe if you tried one of those you wouldn't be so damned grumpy.
Well, let's say you are listening to an album (CD for you youngsters) and the music on the album flows together. A concept album, if you will. There might be songs on that album that go well with the rest of the music, but don't really work out on their own. You might rate one of those songs a "two". Other songs on the album really kick ass and you like to listen to them at any time. So...
You create a smart playlist that plays only songs with better than three stars with appropriate genre and year settings. When you select this playlist your player bounces around playing the songs that meet your criteria.
Okay, now you want to listen to that particular almbum from start to finish. You select that album from the browser and your player playes every song from beginning to end. Even the ones that don't make since as stand-alone songs or that you only really like in conext with the rest of the album.
See? Flexibility without having to setup 50,000 different playlists with different sets of links to teh same bloody files.
Think you for stating the obvious. But the problem here is this: what you consider good, I might consider to be garbage. I loathe rap, hiphop, country (with the exception of Johnny Cash and a very few others), disco, bubblegum pop, thrash, death metal and that awful Pat Boone/Osmonds white-washed bland middle America crap. Does that make all of those forms of music crap and the artists that make it talentless?
No. It simply means that I don't like it. I'm sure that there are many people here that like music that I don't and I'm willing to bet money that I like music that other people here do not.
So, how do we decide which is the wrong artist and which isn't?
I built a file/print server out of a VIA EPIA 500Mhz unit and it works fine. I built mine in a huge ATX case as I am running a pair of mirrored 120GB drives off of a Promise controller along with a single hard drive dedicated to the OS (Win2K Server). The system handles it's task quite nicely, even with all four workstations hitting it at once.
I think you'll be happy with the results of your system.
I have three Mini ITX-based systems in my house. One of them being a file/print server. The server because the motherboard has no fans and a 500Mhz C3 is more than enough to dio what that system does. One is a tiny system hiding in the entertainment center in my living room. It does its job: playing old Win9x/DOS games and MP3s just fine. The third is in my wife's computer.
In each of these situations the system does what is needed. The server doesn't need any more speed, only more drives, which I took care of with an old Promis IDE card I had in a pile of unused stuff, and my wife's idea of a rip-snorting good time is playing Freecell. Upgradability isn't a consideration in the design of those systems.
The only part of the equation that raises the price above "traditional" PCs is if you decide to go to using the ultra-small cases and the laptop drives they require. But even then the increase is not on the order of $1,000.00.
Cooling isn't an issue, either. Most mini ITX systems run very cool and use so little power it's insane (I had to sell a 450 watt PSU to a friend because the mini ITX board in that system didn't draw enough power to keep it alive).
Foy YOU mini ITX systems don't make sense. But don't think that what's important to YOU is important to everyone else. For many people computers are not the nerd equivelant of hot rods, but are simply tools to be used for a specific set of jobs and they'd really like to get that tombstone-sized block of steel out of the house.
That garbage got an "insightful"? Are the mods on crack?
AOL, while being famous for being "The Dummies Back DIrt Road To The Interweb" does have its advantages for many people. You can get online almost anywhere in the USA with AOL. And some of the filtering components are welcomed by people with children.
Not everyone who signs up for AOL is an idiot. Just like not everyone on Slashdot is an elitist prick, though most responces to this article would suggest otherwise.
The fundimental point, whiich many people seem to be missing because it is, afterall, just AOL dealing with its herds of slack-jawed moron customers, is whether your ISP has the right to make changes to your system for you without your knowledge or consent.
Since when does it make a difference whether it's white-hat or black-hat? Someone is still breaking into my system (not that I use AOL, but it's the principle of the matter) and making changes to my system without my knowledge or my EXPRESSED permission.
My ISP's ability to futz with the network ends at the ports on my firewall (or PC if I was so stupid as to not have a firewall). They can block any ports they want at thier router. They can close me out at their router. They can drop my ethernet connection completely if they want. It's their network and they have that right. But they don't have the right to touch anything on my system. Ever.
And not just lie, but many of them are stupid as hell. Why is it, for instance, that every parody song out there is by Weird Al? Even the ones he never sang?
Bootlegs of their concerts, yes. But they don't want you sharing their (not quite as much fun as the concert recordings) studio releases. I don't really have a problem with that.
I've already got more CDs than I have room to store. It's not that I buy a lot of CDs, it's that I've been buying them since the 1980s. The collection tends to build up after a while. And while I do like to look at the artwork and such, it hasn't been the same since the death of the 33-1/3 LP with it's nice 12" package.
And more and more I'm finding that I don't like all of teh songs an many new releases. Most new releases I might like one or two songs and hate the rest. Combined with living in a place with crappy selection and higher than average prices, the incentive to buy an entiire CD is just not there.
Sure, I could buy CDs from Amazon and wait for my CDs to arrive, I'm still usually spending more than I want to, or I'm waiting longer than I care to. (I buy from Amazon because they are one of the few retailors that will ship USPS to Alaska and not completely rape me on the shipping charges.)
While online purchases isn't the perfect sollution ofr everyone, or for all situations, it works for me.
And the reason you wouldn't record the song to your minidisc player like they tell you you can? You did read that part of the article, didn't you?
And this should be no suprise at all, really. iTunes is, afterall, a tool for getting you to buy an iPod. Sure, it's a great music player that does all kinds of neat things, but it is still aimed at getting you to buy an iPod.
Don't get me wrong, I like and use iTunes for Windows. And I want (eat brains!) an iPod.
Sorry, but you don't know Jack. My system has IE 5.0, unpatched, un-upgraded and never used. iTunes runs just fine. Why the hell would Apple use IE when they already have a powerful browser of their own that they can use without a lisence from anybody?
If you are going to make shit up, at least try to be reasonable about it.
I've shown a lot of people "Spirited Away", even my Americentric mother-in-law. Once you explain that ghosts and spirits are not automatically evil in Japanese story telling most people really get the movie.
Actuially, it was released in the USA. As a travesty called "Warriors Of The Wind". And even though it was horribly hacked and mangled, it was still a good movie.
Nausicaa was previously released in the US as Warriors Of The Wind", whic is one of the worst Amricanizations of a foreign film I have ever seen. Not only was the dialogue badly rewritten, but entire subplots were removed. Even so, it was still a pretty good movie and I didn't realize how badly they had mangled it until I saw a Chinese pirate copy of the original (in Japanese with English subtitles).
You can't buy music from the iTunes store, but you can still use the rest of the features. So, you are still getting a very good MP3 player with some very cool sorting functions and whatnot for free.
It's one thing to not bother readung the linked story, but not even bothering to read the post?
Sorry, but that is not forgivable. I can understand not knowing about something obscure, like The Matrix, but not something like Nausicaa.
Gosh, I sure wish I was uber-cool like you! Nothing quite says "Sex God" like spelling Windows "winbloz"!
Son, pull your inflated and feculent head out of your ass and grep a clue. Nobody is impressed by your 'tude.
While you've got your cranium out of your colon, who about you fixing the problem? Or aren't you a programmer?
Hazzah! Well played, Anonymous Coward!
If you can present a valid reason for having a server doing a particular job, then take it up with the IT departments and see if you can get a server colocated in a server area. With the eeception of SSH, any valid server functions you listed above can be setup in a centralized server environment.
As for your SSH client disk, why are you running your programs on someone elses' computer? If you really want transportable data, put copies of your files on a USB thumbdrive.
So they should be allowed to crank up their stereos as loud as they want? How about smoking in the hallways? Why not let them crap in the sinks when they feel like it? It's their home, isn't it?
No, it's not. It's the collective home of everyone living in the dorm. As such, the residence of said dorm should behave in ways that do not unfairly infringe on the comfort and livability of other students.
And just like students should be respecting the rights and comfort of other studnts, they should be respecting the access rights of other students. Hogging the network downloading boatloads iof music and DivX rips of movies is hardly fair to the students trying to do research, read email, or do other "legitimite" business on the network.
The network, like life, isn't just about you. Stop being so selfish for a while.
Nowhere does it say they actually scan the contents of your computer. They analize traffic to and from and scan the ports on your system.
Set up a web page. There are alternatives and sharing FSF/GNU/Linux doesn't make you special.