So what makes this thing worth all that extra money ?
The bright, big, green display? Digital output? The firmware source code? Steaming WAV support? (with the digital output this means that there's no sound degradation when you store your music as WAV or FLAC, if you're that picky about sound quality.)
If you don't care about any of those things, then you shouldn't get a squeezebox.
The authors claim the new driver works for read/write, and is stable. I don't dual boot myself, so I haven't tested it, but there seems to be a solution that's not a hack.
No, it doesn't. Linux supports a wide range of journalling file systems: ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, in addition to almost any filesystem known to man, INCLUDING native NTFS
Shouldn't Linux be on something "better" than FAT32
It is.
...Or am I overlooking something (I'm not a Linux user...yet)?
2. The paycheck they collect is stashed and all the money is spent back overseas.
So I guess "they" don't have to eat, drink, or have shelter. "They" don't buy clothes, don't drive a car, and don't watch cable or pay a mortgage. They live in the office under a 19" rack, and eat leftover pizza from the garbage after everyone leaves. Give me a break. They pay their taxes, including social security which will pay your, but not their, unemployment should you lose your job, and in 10 years or so they'll probably be US citizens, if nobody gets the stupid idea of kicking them out first.
3. They work cheaper.
Wouldn't you, if you had 24 hours to leave the country in case you quit your job?
Not that I'm rasist, nor do I dislike any of them (much),
Sorry to break the news to you, buddy, but you are a racist. You formed you opionion about a group of people without knowing mcuh about them, and you probably don't mind them too much, as long as they go away. That's a racist attitude.
It's not too uncommon, though, and not fatal. You might actually recover someday.
just try and install a keylogger program remotely via email on a Linux system... IT CANNOT BE DONE...
Why not? It may not be as easy as on a Windows box, but it's still possible. You can always send someone a perl script, and try to get the user to run it. The script can then try to exploit any number of local exploits to get root, as well as do something that appears to be useful. Many so called e-mail viruses today do exactly that, since the old Outlook bugs that allowed code to run without the user doing anything are mostly fixed.
Social engineering is platform agnostic.
I look forward to the day when only having ms-office and windows experience on your resume gets it tossed in the bin... the cluefull ones will now be looking for Linux and OpenOffice.org experience.
While that would be really nice, I'm not holding my breath.
One other thing: While you're coding something at home, you're essentially training for your day job, probably learning new things, or just getting better at what you already know. So, your employer is already getting something they're not paying for when you do it. Normally they'd have to pay to send you to training.
My employment contract says that everything I write either at work or at home technically belongs to my employer.
If you think it's fair, that's fine, but I was always careful not to sign contracts with this kind of clause in them. It prevents you from doing contracting work while employed, and makes any contributions you might make to open source projects legally questionable. You should ask youself whether the money you're paid is really enough to cover 24 hours/day of employment.
I can understand that to some extent. While working at an employer you are learning.
So what? You're probably teaching them a thing or two, if you're any good at what you do. You also create a valuable product for them, a product they can capitalize on, and make many times what they paid you in profits on. I think this is a fair exchange, even without claiming everything you do at home as theirs.
Can you guarantee that anything you write has not benefitted from knowledge gained while working for you current employer.
The law defines what you may or may not do in this situation, and your employer has all the legal protection they need even without having you sign a draconian contract. You shouldn't have to prove that you didn't do anything wrong - they have to prove that you've done something wrong.
You can't use code that's copyrighted by your employer without getting your employer's approval, and you probablly have a confidentiality agreement someplace that prohibits you from disclosing trade secrets. That should be enough to cover any real wrongdoing on your part.
If you were a carpenter, and you worked for a furniture maker, would you have agreed if your employer claimed furniture you made at home as his own?
It's true. Charities are also exempt, and that includes the scumbags who collect money "on behalf of" some organization or other, but only pass a small percentage of the money to the orgianization they claim to represent. Sometimes as little as 3%. Those are, in fact, for-profit companies. Next time, just ask them to put you on THEIR do-not-call list. They'll be happy to do that, and if you keep at it, you'll stop getting those calls.
According to a former co-worker of mine, who spent several years designing ethernet equipment, that's simply not true. This was a few years ago - maybe ethernet card manufacturers got their act together since then, or maybe he was wrong.
My point was (assuming I actually had one) that 100Base-T never actually delivers 100Mbps. If you excpect it to, and get angry when it doesn't, you'll be angry a lot.
On x86 hardware ctrl-alt-del generates a harware interrupt.
That may be technically true, but not in a meaningful way. Any key press generates a hardware interrupt. It's up to the OS to decide what to do with it, and ctrl-alt-del has no special meaning beyond what the OS does with it.
However, I can't write an app to trap the ctrl-alt-del, so it doesn't work.
Somebody posted a way to do just that somewhere here. Look for it.
Not having had the argument before, I don't keep track of ugly music. But if I run into any in the next few days, I'll post it.
Please do. I'd be interested in hearing about it.
Off the top of my head, I can think of a few bands that seem to have what one might call a negative attitude or message, yet make beautiful music (at least I find it beautiful) - Rage Against the Machine, Meshuggah, Nick Cave (Murder Ballads is a very disturbing and beautiful album, and The Mercy Seat is one of my favorite songs).
Now, we would only listen to such music with our full attention, paying attention to the words, talking about the situations that would make suicide seem attractive, not letting it poison our dreams.
A much better approach, in my opinion, than setting arbitrary filtering rules. Kids do keep you on your toes, don't they?
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So what makes this thing worth all that extra money ?
The bright, big, green display? Digital output? The firmware source code? Steaming WAV support? (with the digital output this means that there's no sound degradation when you store your music as WAV or FLAC, if you're that picky about sound quality.)
If you don't care about any of those things, then you shouldn't get a squeezebox.
Hmmm... You're right. I missed that part, and I assumed (wrongly) that the existence of TopologiLinux meant that the driver had solid write support.
Have you tried this?
The authors claim the new driver works for read/write, and is stable. I don't dual boot myself, so I haven't tested it, but there seems to be a solution that's not a hack.
No, it doesn't. Linux supports a wide range of journalling file systems: ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, in addition to almost any filesystem known to man, INCLUDING native NTFS
Shouldn't Linux be on something "better" than FAT32
It is.
You got your facts wrong, that's all.
How do I get this to work with the DVD menus?
Let's start with the obvious:
Not to mention the language barrior
Thank you for that one. Now:
2. The paycheck they collect is stashed and all the money is spent back overseas.
So I guess "they" don't have to eat, drink, or have shelter. "They" don't buy clothes, don't drive a car, and don't watch cable or pay a mortgage. They live in the office under a 19" rack, and eat leftover pizza from the garbage after everyone leaves. Give me a break. They pay their taxes, including social security which will pay your, but not their, unemployment should you lose your job, and in 10 years or so they'll probably be US citizens, if nobody gets the stupid idea of kicking them out first.
3. They work cheaper.
Wouldn't you, if you had 24 hours to leave the country in case you quit your job?
Not that I'm rasist, nor do I dislike any of them (much),
Sorry to break the news to you, buddy, but you are a racist. You formed you opionion about a group of people without knowing mcuh about them, and you probably don't mind them too much, as long as they go away. That's a racist attitude.
It's not too uncommon, though, and not fatal. You might actually recover someday.
Have a happy Thanksgiving!
just try and install a keylogger program remotely via email on a Linux system... IT CANNOT BE DONE...
Why not? It may not be as easy as on a Windows box, but it's still possible. You can always send someone a perl script, and try to get the user to run it. The script can then try to exploit any number of local exploits to get root, as well as do something that appears to be useful. Many so called e-mail viruses today do exactly that, since the old Outlook bugs that allowed code to run without the user doing anything are mostly fixed.
Social engineering is platform agnostic.
I look forward to the day when only having ms-office and windows experience on your resume gets it tossed in the bin... the cluefull ones will now be looking for Linux and OpenOffice.org experience.
While that would be really nice, I'm not holding my breath.
One other thing: While you're coding something at home, you're essentially training for your day job, probably learning new things, or just getting better at what you already know. So, your employer is already getting something they're not paying for when you do it. Normally they'd have to pay to send you to training.
My employment contract says that everything I write either at work or at home technically belongs to my employer.
If you think it's fair, that's fine, but I was always careful not to sign contracts with this kind of clause in them. It prevents you from doing contracting work while employed, and makes any contributions you might make to open source projects legally questionable. You should ask youself whether the money you're paid is really enough to cover 24 hours/day of employment.
I can understand that to some extent. While working at an employer you are learning.
So what? You're probably teaching them a thing or two, if you're any good at what you do. You also create a valuable product for them, a product they can capitalize on, and make many times what they paid you in profits on. I think this is a fair exchange, even without claiming everything you do at home as theirs.
Can you guarantee that anything you write has not benefitted from knowledge gained while working for you current employer.
The law defines what you may or may not do in this situation, and your employer has all the legal protection they need even without having you sign a draconian contract. You shouldn't have to prove that you didn't do anything wrong - they have to prove that you've done something wrong.
You can't use code that's copyrighted by your employer without getting your employer's approval, and you probablly have a confidentiality agreement someplace that prohibits you from disclosing trade secrets. That should be enough to cover any real wrongdoing on your part.
If you were a carpenter, and you worked for a furniture maker, would you have agreed if your employer claimed furniture you made at home as his own?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/behe.html
So what's GNU userland running on Windows XP? GNU/Windows? What about GNU on Mac OS X? GNU/OS X?
A pager?
See, this is why we should all use Lisp:
(but (question-do I (get (or (is hardware (and over-spec high-dollar)) automobiles prostitutes))))
See how clear everything is now?
But do I get over-spec high-dollar hardware, automobiles or prostitutes
I'd really like to know what's an over-spec prostitute. I think I can figure out what's a high-dollar one.
I have a 1979 Fender Strat. I was amused to see this model listed on the 'net for sale as a vintage instrument.
It's true. Charities are also exempt, and that includes the scumbags who collect money "on behalf of" some organization or other, but only pass a small percentage of the money to the orgianization they claim to represent. Sometimes as little as 3%. Those are, in fact, for-profit companies. Next time, just ask them to put you on THEIR do-not-call list. They'll be happy to do that, and if you keep at it, you'll stop getting those calls.
According to a former co-worker of mine, who spent several years designing ethernet equipment, that's simply not true. This was a few years ago - maybe ethernet card manufacturers got their act together since then, or maybe he was wrong.
Frustrated, yes. Angry? No.
My point was (assuming I actually had one) that 100Base-T never actually delivers 100Mbps. If you excpect it to, and get angry when it doesn't, you'll be angry a lot.
Then you must be real angry, real often.
"Hey, what does PWRDWNSYS do?"
I think someone should sell IBM some vowels.
On x86 hardware ctrl-alt-del generates a harware interrupt.
That may be technically true, but not in a meaningful way. Any key press generates a hardware interrupt. It's up to the OS to decide what to do with it, and ctrl-alt-del has no special meaning beyond what the OS does with it.
However, I can't write an app to trap the ctrl-alt-del, so it doesn't work.
Somebody posted a way to do just that somewhere here. Look for it.
Of course, Linux doesn't like you doing Ctrl-Alt-Del
/etc/inittab.
You do know you can change the action taken on Ctrl-Alt-Del, do you? It's in
but Linux users are already more careful...
I'm not. Ever walked into a mainframe control room, asked: "What does the red button do?" and then pressed the red button? I have.
Even if there wasn't, it'd still be WEEEEE~1, not WEEEE~1.
Surely you mean "WEEEEE~1.EEE".
Not having had the argument before, I don't keep track of ugly music. But if I run into any in the next few days, I'll post it.
Please do. I'd be interested in hearing about it.
Off the top of my head, I can think of a few bands that seem to have what one might call a negative attitude or message, yet make beautiful music (at least I find it beautiful) - Rage Against the Machine, Meshuggah, Nick Cave (Murder Ballads is a very disturbing and beautiful album, and The Mercy Seat is one of my favorite songs).
Now, we would only listen to such music with our full attention, paying attention to the words, talking about the situations that would make suicide seem attractive, not letting it poison our dreams.
A much better approach, in my opinion, than setting arbitrary filtering rules. Kids do keep you on your toes, don't they?