Yes, but the investigators have to obtain a warrant before they can tap a line. Right now, under the DMCA, the RIAA just has to ask, without any interaction from any governmental agency whatsoever.
Just as an aside, and completely off the mark, most cars today allow you to read the check engine lights without any expensive diagnostic machines.
I recently had some problems with my Dodge Caravan, for example, and it sat in my driveway for a week before I had the opportunity to do anything with it. A friend of mine and I then checked the trouble codes as per the instruction manual. To check them, I just to turn the ignition to "On", then "Off" 5 times quickly. This then "blinked" the check engine light a number of times, and I was able to match the blinks up with a list of trouble codes.
As it happens, it reported a bad camshaft position sensor. Well, as I replaced that, it turned out to be a broken timing belt (I suppose if the camshaft isn't turning, the sensor would show bad), but the point is that those diagnostics are there a lot of the time, you just have to know where they're at.
You need to brush up on yours as well, as I suspect that the "jointly" quote was deliberately posted to refute the claim that in sharing, you have to deprive yourself of it, as indicated by the grandparent.
No offense or anything, but if anyone does anything to my computer necessitating the purchase of new hardware, then Tada! They have physically destroyed at least a portion of my computer remotely. Viewing "the computer" as a whole, without a working Bios/Motherboard, the computer is destroyed.
I don't get it. Windows FORCES you into their single desktop, and you're okay with it, because you know it's going to suck.
RedHat strongly encourages you to use one desktop, and you just have to say No because there's an alternative? And then complain about it?
By the way, as an AC posted (I honestly don't know either way, just regurgitating) in reply to this thread, you apparently can get a copy of KDE _FOR_ RedHat 8 _FROM_ KDE. Should solve all of your woes.
My daughter (now 15 months old) recently yanked the ejectable CD-RW tray out of the drive. Just walked up to it, hit eject, grabbed the tray, and yank. Completely yanked the thing loose.
The next thing I know, she's running around the house brandishing her CD Tray like a weapon.
Anyway, after I got it back from her, I put it back in the old fashioned way... sheer brute force. I just opened the tray cover, put the tray back in, and forced it back into position while it made its horrid little ratcheting noises.
After that though, it worked perfectly. The tray ejects when the button is pressed (though sometimes closes randomly now. Annoying, but not surprising), reads perfectly, and even burns usable CDs at 24 speed.
For the record, it's a 24x10x40 Lite-On, and it's currently working without a problem after two months of use.
Replace it. I don't know about Dells, but on most models, they pop right out. You should find some hinge-covers around the edges of the laptop, and then the keyboard should come right out, with maybe a ribbon cable tying it to the board.
Just get a replacement from Dell, and you're golden.
There isn't any spyware or backdoor installations. It does nothing but grab the xml file you download, parse it, add the jobs to the queue, and save them how you want it formatted.
And don't worry, I've got your email addy on file, I just haven't given the script a home yet (still working on logging and some extra features. I'm not exactly great at this, so it might take a bit).
Amen. The main reason that I'm spreading the word is because I really want to see them succeed. Desperately so, if for no other reason than to see more and more labels adopt the behavior.
That said, yeah, I'm sure it supports getright. The "Entire Album Link" is really just an xml file that, when parsed, contains the expiration date of the download links. The typical expiration is well over 6 months from the day you start the download, and otherwise, the file is just a regular link to the mp3, but I couldn't say for certain. Believe it or not, their download manager is actually worth the download (on Windows anyway). It's got a bunch of nice formatting features for the file naming (ie: what fields to include [artist, album, track number, title, etc], what order they should be in, what character to delimit them with).
Either way, good luck with your connection. I'll email you the script's webhome as soon as I remember. I think it's bedtime now.
No, you don't have to use their client (as I said, it's not Linux-ready anyway, and I don't do Windows). You only have to use their client to make use of the "Download Entire Album" links... the individual song links are just links to the mp3, and download like normal.
As for the javascript, I hadn't noticed any glaringly obvious scripts (except that there might be popups I don't see due to Mozilla). Everything works perfectly fine with Slack and Mozilla for me.
Like I said, if you're interested in them (they really are quite good, if the selection suits your tastes anyway), just drop me an email and I'll be happy to give you a script to make use of the "entire album" links.
They're a subsidiary of mp3.com, and have a pay-per-month subscription plan. The plan that I'm on costs $10 a month, of which I've subscribe a total of about 6 months thus far.
The service is wonderful, fast download speeds, 128kbit recordings, and (at least for what I listen to) a really large selection of songs. Of your downloads, a percentage goes to the bands you're downloading (or labels, not sure), and your mp3s are completely legal.
Also (at least in Windows) they have a function that allows you to download (or at least queue for download) entire albums with one click. While there isn't a Linux equivalent, I was able to mock up a PHP script to do exactly that (grab the XML file, parse it, and wget all of the songs, downloaded to my hard drive name-formatted how I like). If you'd like a copy of it, just shoot me an email (issue9mm (at) issue9mm.com), and I'll be happy to share.
Just to note, I am in no way affiliated with Emusic, but am an extremely happy customer. Extremely.
Jesus didn't die, but was put into a drug-induced coma. He later "arose", faked an ascension into heaven, then got married and had kids.
A society formed around him, entitling themselves "The Grail" to protect the bloodline of Christ so that when the Apocalypse comes, they can produce the (fine print)descendant son of God, allow him to perform a few miracles to sway the public, and then capitalize on their newfound public control ability to further their own agendas of worldwide scale.
Touche. It just seems like lately, there have been quite a large number of people not knowing the difference between completely obvious (to me anyway) sarcasms. Of course, for all I know, he didn't mean to be sarcastic in the first place.
I think you're completely offbase in lambasting the parent for his opinions, especially when your viewpoints don't seem to have anything to do with what he said, but I will offer why XP is unusable for me.
Application hiding, and the new layout of the start menu. Auto-hiding applications that I haven't used in awhile stinks, and all of the other nonsense with the new Start button make me hate it altogether.
Yeah, I like fast user switching, but the Start Menu and the licensing scheme are easily enough to keep me away from XP altogether (even when I was a Windows user).
I think that what he means by "blows through" is when you launch an application in XP, and you already have a foreground application running (say, Mozilla, or whatever), certain bits of the launching application appear to be partially in front of (but not completely) the foreground application while loading.
Example: In XP, I'm using Mozilla to surf Slashdot (which I'm not actually, but whatever), I click on IE to launch it from the quicklaunch bar, then click back on Mozilla. I then notice that parts of the IE homepage bleed through into Mozilla until IE is completely done loading, then go away.
I'm just guessing anyway, but I think that's what he means.
I can't believe I'm wasting my mod points by pointing this out, but just to clarify, to the U.S. government, the Vietnam War was never classified as a war, but an overseas operation.
So, technically, every time you hear someone refer to "the Vietnam War", they're wrong. The U.S. government doesn't officially acknowledge that a war ever took place in Vietnam, despite how many of its members disagree.
Fossil fuels have been formed in the course of million, not mere thousands of years
We're not talking about thousands of years, but millions of years in the future. The topic of the thread was a show that supposedly takes place 100 Million Years in the Future.
Given 100 million years, I think we'd have more than enough time to generate said fossil fuels.
How is that better than selling the software and including the support as part of the package? Because it's "more moral"? How does this model make open source a viable alternative to commercial software?
Why would I want to pay for support that I may never need? Perhaps it makes you feel better to have built-in support options, and that's fine. Don't use products that don't provide it. If there are those of us that exist who don't need help with program x, then our essential cost is again reduced to 0, whereas we only have to pay for support should we need it.
It is for these reasons that companies provide service contracts in addition to per-incident support.
I've mentioned my wife a lot lately on these forums, and, while I hate to be doing it again... I must.
Admittedly, I am not an uber-tech. I'm Brainbench Linux Certified (as if it means anything), and I've got almost a year's worth of experience under my belt. I've set up a handful of servers using RedHat whatever's new at the time.0 to run Apache, PHP, MySQL, Samba and IPTables, but really, I struggle with just about every new error message that runs across the screen (though it's getting easier).
If you want to be less removed from the "normal" user experience, just use someone you know that's not as technical. I use my wife for this. We tried RH 6.0, and she hated it. She liked 7.1 better, but didn't know what she was doing. Eventually, she got fed up and wanted it off. RH8 came out and I had her try that. She loves it. It was, in her words "easy to use, easy to figure out". Granted, there's not that big a difference in the usability of 7.1 to 8.0, but in a lot of ways, it's huge. Bluecurve is exactly what she needed (and, I suspect, exactly what a lot of other people do too) to make Linux enjoyable for her.
My power supply just died in that computer, so she's been relegated to using a slower computer (running Windows) for the past two days until my new supply gets in, and she misses Linux. She misses the games, and the way that they work, and all the other wonderful things that it offers. She doesn't know anything beyond the gui, and she doesn't need to. It works for her.
Anyway, now I'm really rambling... but my point was, if you want to get back in touch with the end-user experience, get in touch with an end user, and if you can get them to donate some of their time to try it, you'll find their opinions are easily voiced.
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Check the Nautilus preferences. Single-clicking to launch files is a rather easy thing to set up.
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Yes, but the investigators have to obtain a warrant before they can tap a line. Right now, under the DMCA, the RIAA just has to ask, without any interaction from any governmental agency whatsoever.
That is what SBC is fighting.
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Just as an aside, and completely off the mark, most cars today allow you to read the check engine lights without any expensive diagnostic machines.
I recently had some problems with my Dodge Caravan, for example, and it sat in my driveway for a week before I had the opportunity to do anything with it. A friend of mine and I then checked the trouble codes as per the instruction manual. To check them, I just to turn the ignition to "On", then "Off" 5 times quickly. This then "blinked" the check engine light a number of times, and I was able to match the blinks up with a list of trouble codes.
As it happens, it reported a bad camshaft position sensor. Well, as I replaced that, it turned out to be a broken timing belt (I suppose if the camshaft isn't turning, the sensor would show bad), but the point is that those diagnostics are there a lot of the time, you just have to know where they're at.
Hopefully redhat keeps them intact as well.
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You need to brush up on yours as well, as I suspect that the "jointly" quote was deliberately posted to refute the claim that in sharing, you have to deprive yourself of it, as indicated by the grandparent.
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No offense or anything, but if anyone does anything to my computer necessitating the purchase of new hardware, then Tada! They have physically destroyed at least a portion of my computer remotely. Viewing "the computer" as a whole, without a working Bios/Motherboard, the computer is destroyed.
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Those are CDs, not DVDs. We're talking about DVDs being $10 a piece.
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I don't get it. Windows FORCES you into their single desktop, and you're okay with it, because you know it's going to suck.
RedHat strongly encourages you to use one desktop, and you just have to say No because there's an alternative? And then complain about it?
By the way, as an AC posted (I honestly don't know either way, just regurgitating) in reply to this thread, you apparently can get a copy of KDE _FOR_ RedHat 8 _FROM_ KDE. Should solve all of your woes.
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Wow. That's pretty tragic.
My daughter (now 15 months old) recently yanked the ejectable CD-RW tray out of the drive. Just walked up to it, hit eject, grabbed the tray, and yank. Completely yanked the thing loose.
The next thing I know, she's running around the house brandishing her CD Tray like a weapon.
Anyway, after I got it back from her, I put it back in the old fashioned way... sheer brute force. I just opened the tray cover, put the tray back in, and forced it back into position while it made its horrid little ratcheting noises.
After that though, it worked perfectly. The tray ejects when the button is pressed (though sometimes closes randomly now. Annoying, but not surprising), reads perfectly, and even burns usable CDs at 24 speed.
For the record, it's a 24x10x40 Lite-On, and it's currently working without a problem after two months of use.
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Replace it. I don't know about Dells, but on most models, they pop right out. You should find some hinge-covers around the edges of the laptop, and then the keyboard should come right out, with maybe a ribbon cable tying it to the board.
Just get a replacement from Dell, and you're golden.
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cron.daily wants to be your friend.
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There isn't any spyware or backdoor installations. It does nothing but grab the xml file you download, parse it, add the jobs to the queue, and save them how you want it formatted.
And don't worry, I've got your email addy on file, I just haven't given the script a home yet (still working on logging and some extra features. I'm not exactly great at this, so it might take a bit).
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Amen. The main reason that I'm spreading the word is because I really want to see them succeed. Desperately so, if for no other reason than to see more and more labels adopt the behavior.
That said, yeah, I'm sure it supports getright. The "Entire Album Link" is really just an xml file that, when parsed, contains the expiration date of the download links. The typical expiration is well over 6 months from the day you start the download, and otherwise, the file is just a regular link to the mp3, but I couldn't say for certain. Believe it or not, their download manager is actually worth the download (on Windows anyway). It's got a bunch of nice formatting features for the file naming (ie: what fields to include [artist, album, track number, title, etc], what order they should be in, what character to delimit them with).
Either way, good luck with your connection. I'll email you the script's webhome as soon as I remember. I think it's bedtime now.
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No, you don't have to use their client (as I said, it's not Linux-ready anyway, and I don't do Windows). You only have to use their client to make use of the "Download Entire Album" links... the individual song links are just links to the mp3, and download like normal.
As for the javascript, I hadn't noticed any glaringly obvious scripts (except that there might be popups I don't see due to Mozilla). Everything works perfectly fine with Slack and Mozilla for me.
Like I said, if you're interested in them (they really are quite good, if the selection suits your tastes anyway), just drop me an email and I'll be happy to give you a script to make use of the "entire album" links.
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It's been said before, and I'll say it again now.
EMUSIC.COM
They're a subsidiary of mp3.com, and have a pay-per-month subscription plan. The plan that I'm on costs $10 a month, of which I've subscribe a total of about 6 months thus far.
The service is wonderful, fast download speeds, 128kbit recordings, and (at least for what I listen to) a really large selection of songs. Of your downloads, a percentage goes to the bands you're downloading (or labels, not sure), and your mp3s are completely legal.
Also (at least in Windows) they have a function that allows you to download (or at least queue for download) entire albums with one click. While there isn't a Linux equivalent, I was able to mock up a PHP script to do exactly that (grab the XML file, parse it, and wget all of the songs, downloaded to my hard drive name-formatted how I like). If you'd like a copy of it, just shoot me an email (issue9mm (at) issue9mm.com), and I'll be happy to share.
Just to note, I am in no way affiliated with Emusic, but am an extremely happy customer. Extremely.
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Doesn't anybody read anymore?
Jesus didn't die, but was put into a drug-induced coma. He later "arose", faked an ascension into heaven, then got married and had kids.
A society formed around him, entitling themselves "The Grail" to protect the bloodline of Christ so that when the Apocalypse comes, they can produce the (fine print)descendant son of God, allow him to perform a few miracles to sway the public, and then capitalize on their newfound public control ability to further their own agendas of worldwide scale.
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Touche. It just seems like lately, there have been quite a large number of people not knowing the difference between completely obvious (to me anyway) sarcasms. Of course, for all I know, he didn't mean to be sarcastic in the first place.
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I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic.
Why is this so difficult around here lately?
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"pc server 520" + "linux drivers"
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I think you're completely offbase in lambasting the parent for his opinions, especially when your viewpoints don't seem to have anything to do with what he said, but I will offer why XP is unusable for me.
Application hiding, and the new layout of the start menu. Auto-hiding applications that I haven't used in awhile stinks, and all of the other nonsense with the new Start button make me hate it altogether.
Yeah, I like fast user switching, but the Start Menu and the licensing scheme are easily enough to keep me away from XP altogether (even when I was a Windows user).
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I think that what he means by "blows through" is when you launch an application in XP, and you already have a foreground application running (say, Mozilla, or whatever), certain bits of the launching application appear to be partially in front of (but not completely) the foreground application while loading.
Example: In XP, I'm using Mozilla to surf Slashdot (which I'm not actually, but whatever), I click on IE to launch it from the quicklaunch bar, then click back on Mozilla. I then notice that parts of the IE homepage bleed through into Mozilla until IE is completely done loading, then go away.
I'm just guessing anyway, but I think that's what he means.
Mod down as offtopic.
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I can't believe I'm wasting my mod points by pointing this out, but just to clarify, to the U.S. government, the Vietnam War was never classified as a war, but an overseas operation.
So, technically, every time you hear someone refer to "the Vietnam War", they're wrong. The U.S. government doesn't officially acknowledge that a war ever took place in Vietnam, despite how many of its members disagree.
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Given 100 million years, I think we'd have more than enough time to generate said fossil fuels.
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Why would I want to pay for support that I may never need? Perhaps it makes you feel better to have built-in support options, and that's fine. Don't use products that don't provide it. If there are those of us that exist who don't need help with program x, then our essential cost is again reduced to 0, whereas we only have to pay for support should we need it.
It is for these reasons that companies provide service contracts in addition to per-incident support.
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I don't see how it is that you get that. If we were all to die, then our bones would fossilize, and give future generations of fossil fuel.
Plants will continue to grow, etc.
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I've mentioned my wife a lot lately on these forums, and, while I hate to be doing it again... I must.
Admittedly, I am not an uber-tech. I'm Brainbench Linux Certified (as if it means anything), and I've got almost a year's worth of experience under my belt. I've set up a handful of servers using RedHat whatever's new at the time.0 to run Apache, PHP, MySQL, Samba and IPTables, but really, I struggle with just about every new error message that runs across the screen (though it's getting easier).
If you want to be less removed from the "normal" user experience, just use someone you know that's not as technical. I use my wife for this. We tried RH 6.0, and she hated it. She liked 7.1 better, but didn't know what she was doing. Eventually, she got fed up and wanted it off. RH8 came out and I had her try that. She loves it. It was, in her words "easy to use, easy to figure out". Granted, there's not that big a difference in the usability of 7.1 to 8.0, but in a lot of ways, it's huge. Bluecurve is exactly what she needed (and, I suspect, exactly what a lot of other people do too) to make Linux enjoyable for her.
My power supply just died in that computer, so she's been relegated to using a slower computer (running Windows) for the past two days until my new supply gets in, and she misses Linux. She misses the games, and the way that they work, and all the other wonderful things that it offers. She doesn't know anything beyond the gui, and she doesn't need to. It works for her.
Anyway, now I'm really rambling... but my point was, if you want to get back in touch with the end-user experience, get in touch with an end user, and if you can get them to donate some of their time to try it, you'll find their opinions are easily voiced.
Sorry for the long rant about nothing...
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