I download the FLACs fo the Phish shows that I've seen, and others that I want to have, and burn them to CD. My friends can't believe the sound when they're over for parties and such.
Moe, Umphrey's Mcgee, String Cheese Incident, Govt Mule, and many other jam bands offer FLAC (and usually ALAC - Apple's proprietary lossless format) as well as VBR.mp3 files for download. I've downloaded Phish's show from the same night while in the parking lot waiting for traffic to clear out after the show.
Of course, jam band fans aren't your typical music consumer either... We are a crowd who actually appreciates the music itself, and isn't just looking for a simple beat to bounce around to.
"Your honor, The jury finds the defendant innocent, due to the fact that his password really was, 'It's actually a passphrase'. He responded to every request for the password by telling it to them - it's not his fault that they thought he was being arrogant. In reality, he was being completely cooperative.
Furthermore, we request that the city be ordered to pay a large amount of money, say the $5 million that they required he come up with, to Mr. Childs. Because they are such fucktards."
Get off my lawn, but you might be thinking of GEM. Desqview X (or something) is another one from that era that comes to mind.
I remember getting a high-powered system (386DX) with DOS 3.31. Windows 3.0 and these other two shells were also included. (Along with WordStar, Quattro Pro, Paradox, etc., all running in DOS.) I wiped it all at one point and installed OS/2 Warp. I'd look the names up, but I've got to get the door. Some of the neighborhood kids are stopping by with a paper bag and what looks like a lighter...
Seconded. One of the best things you can do is establish the idea of a slush fund for both sides of the relationship; marriage is one of the more common reasons for divorce.
Here in the Chicago suburbs, a red-light camera made the news recently. It is at the entrance to a large and very busy mall. In its first month of operation, over 7000 tickets were mailed out. Many of the tickets were people legally turning right on red. These people shouldn't worry, though. Here in the USA we have the right to face our accuser...oh, never mind.
In my town, they claim that the camera tickets do not count against the point system on our licenses; I don't know if that is statewide, a local ordinance, or just false. The village officials were saying anything to try and quiet the public outcry when the cameras started appearing about 6 months ago. Funny how the ticket sticks as far as paying a fine, but the rest of the official law doesn't apply. It really is all about the revenue.
As a person who detests the abuse of the laws like this, it really bothers me. As a driver, it doesn't matter as much to me - I am not one of the yellow-light hotshots. Driving fast on open roads is more my thing.
Why is the definition of 'open source' so nebulous? Freeware does not mean open source.
At a company I used to work at (not a software company - a molding company), I had set up email and firewalls/gateways on Linux boxes. Nobody asked how it worked or what it was, they just knew it worked. One day, the boss told me he was a big fan of open source software. Turns out his idea of open source was pirated commercial software! I left that job shortly after that.
That's brilliant! I didn't even think of that stupid '^M' business... That is the exact kind of nuance I was referring to in my previous post.
At the time, I found myself with a totally unexpected problem in the process of rolling out the system. The pressure that you feel when there's a problem, after telling your boss that it will run on Windows with no problem, just sucks! I was trying to spare somebody that pain.
...Nice thing about LAMP is at least the AMP part is OS portable...
Careful with that - some nuances will turn up that will bite you on the ass. I found out last year that Apache's MD5 module creates different hashes(!) on Windows than it does on UNIX.
I finally convinced my employer to use Subversion to provide version control on our Pro/E CAD files by bringing in my BSD server and doing a demo for the bosses. It was a beautiful setup, including ViewVC so the gals in Customer Service have access to drawings and visibility into what has been completed. Our IT guy is a standard Windows guy, so I had to set it up on a Windows box for him. I fought that, but politics won! I included a web page to change the Apache passwords, which worked fine on Linux and UNIX using Apache's MD5 module. That was when I found out that the MD5 results were different - none of our passwords would work until we re-created all of them using htpasswd(.exe) on the Windows box. Eventually, I wound up just authenticating users off of the AD server, which was a more elegant solution anyway.
I have an Aspire One as well. Mine is running FreeBSD, with wireless networking via the ath_hal kernel module.
I had to recompile the kernel using the latest 7.1 source snapshot to get the Atheros card working. The link/activity light doesn't work (no big deal, really!), but the wireless connection 'kill switch' on the front of the case works. I haven't tried running it as a WAP yet, but now I want to give it a try! The ath kernel modules in BSD have supported AP mode for some time now; if it doesn't work that way, I may look into porting Sam's code.
FreeBSD users can also now feel smug and superior in this regard, as well. (Finally!)
While we have been able to make video somewhat work over the years, including browser plug-ins, there have been some improvements in the upcoming 7.1 release that are making it quite similar to Linux as far as media support goes. We can now reliably watch all of the video formats, including Flash 9 and DVD's. The ritual is pretty much the same as Linux - install W32 codecs, install flash, install CSS decoder, etc.
If you have been steering away from FreeBSD for multimedia issues, you may want to give it a try when 7.1 comes out. Oh yeah, for a couple years now, there is also a hardware-accelerated Nvidia driver for the i386 platform, and ports of Compiz and Beryl.
'Document management system' is kind of ambiguous, but this may be what you are looking for. I have it set up on an entirely open source server running FreeBSD 7, and I use it to manage CAD files for a group of 8 engineers. We have just set up a separate repository for our QA manager to track revisions to our controlled forms and procedures for our ISO 9001 requirements.
You do realize that ClamWin currently does not have an on-access scanner, don't you? That means a zero detection rate unless files are manually scanned. Right now, your 'clueless users' are unprotected.
I saw an article on CNN for a social networking site in the works (I don't remember the name of the company offhand), where you sign up with your cellular phone number to allow your friends to locate you.
The first thing I thought of was some dude signing up as his girlfriend or the girl at the bar who gave him her number last night, and then the stalking begins. The gal from CNN thought about it too - she asked him if he ever thought of that. His reply was something like 'Oh, well, uh, we could set it up so that when you sign up you can have the site text your phone when someone tries to locate you or something.'
Fortunately the dot-com craze is far behind us, or this idiot may already have investors!
Yes, the buffer is on the hard drive. It is a circular file that overwrites itself when it reaches 6 hours of content. It is erased at power-down or startup (not sure which) also.
That was the basis of the hardware hack idea I tossed out there. Like I said, I wouldn't waste the time to disassemble the unit and hook the hard drive up to a computer, just to find out that the buffer is cleared on power-down, or that the buffer is some unusable, proprietary data stream, maybe even encrypted.
I guess I should have been more clear in my post - by 'save to the hard drive' I meant copy the movie from the buffer to the library area of the drive as a selectable title (which could subsequently be burned to a DVD).
I actually chose the Philips because the hard drive can be replaced, although you won't find it in the owner's manual! I was thinking about extending the DVR's life beyond a drive failure, though, not hacking copy protection.
In the Chicago area, Comcast blocks some content from recording. Many of the on-demand movies and some of the premium channel programming cannot be recorded by a standard DVR. This is on digital cable in standard definition, using an off-the-shelf Philips DVR (not Comcast's).
My DVR will buffer these programs, allowing rewind, pause, etc. If I try to record it to the hard drive it refuses to, giving a message of 'protected'. I'm not sure exactly how they do it - I always thought they may be broadcasting Macrovision codes with the signal.
I suppose it could be hacked by a hardware hack like removing the hard drive and collecting the movie from the buffer, but nothing that is being broadcast is worth the effort! It's bad enough that I waste time sitting in front of the tube viewing this 'high value content'. I'm sure as hell not wasting more time trying to copy it. It is nearly summer here - there are much better things to do most days.
....Babak Pasdar, a computer security consultant, has not been seen nor heard from since he left a client site earlier today. His family life was stable and solid - his family suspects foul play. Federal officials suggest that no foul play was involved, and regret that they cannot waste their resources on a missing person who 'probably ran away to start a new life.'
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I download the FLACs fo the Phish shows that I've seen, and others that I want to have, and burn them to CD. My friends can't believe the sound when they're over for parties and such.
.mp3 files for download. I've downloaded Phish's show from the same night while in the parking lot waiting for traffic to clear out after the show.
Moe, Umphrey's Mcgee, String Cheese Incident, Govt Mule, and many other jam bands offer FLAC (and usually ALAC - Apple's proprietary lossless format) as well as VBR
Of course, jam band fans aren't your typical music consumer either... We are a crowd who actually appreciates the music itself, and isn't just looking for a simple beat to bounce around to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmN2cVOr5W4
"Your honor, The jury finds the defendant innocent, due to the fact that his password really was, 'It's actually a passphrase'. He responded to every request for the password by telling it to them - it's not his fault that they thought he was being arrogant. In reality, he was being completely cooperative.
Furthermore, we request that the city be ordered to pay a large amount of money, say the $5 million that they required he come up with, to Mr. Childs. Because they are such fucktards."
I have Comcast, you insensitive clod!
If I discover a loose knob on a TV set, I'm taking the TV back to the store for a refund.
It's been a little while since you bought a TV, hasn't it?
Get off my lawn, but you might be thinking of GEM. Desqview X (or something) is another one from that era that comes to mind.
I remember getting a high-powered system (386DX) with DOS 3.31. Windows 3.0 and these other two shells were also included. (Along with WordStar, Quattro Pro, Paradox, etc., all running in DOS.) I wiped it all at one point and installed OS/2 Warp. I'd look the names up, but I've got to get the door. Some of the neighborhood kids are stopping by with a paper bag and what looks like a lighter...
HE is definitely a Eunich!
The H.R. drone obviously misunderstood him when he said 'I'm a UNIX programmer.'
I wouldn't hold my breath for an Windows 7 ARM edition.
There already is a plan for Windows 7 ARM edition ... it will have about half the functionality of Windows 7 ARM & LEG edition.
Seconded. One of the best things you can do is establish the idea of a slush fund for both sides of the relationship; marriage is one of the more common reasons for divorce.
Fixed that for you. ;-)
Here in the Chicago suburbs, a red-light camera made the news recently. It is at the entrance to a large and very busy mall. In its first month of operation, over 7000 tickets were mailed out. Many of the tickets were people legally turning right on red. These people shouldn't worry, though. Here in the USA we have the right to face our accuser...oh, never mind.
In my town, they claim that the camera tickets do not count against the point system on our licenses; I don't know if that is statewide, a local ordinance, or just false. The village officials were saying anything to try and quiet the public outcry when the cameras started appearing about 6 months ago. Funny how the ticket sticks as far as paying a fine, but the rest of the official law doesn't apply. It really is all about the revenue.
As a person who detests the abuse of the laws like this, it really bothers me. As a driver, it doesn't matter as much to me - I am not one of the yellow-light hotshots. Driving fast on open roads is more my thing.
That was my first thought.
Why is the definition of 'open source' so nebulous? Freeware does not mean open source.
At a company I used to work at (not a software company - a molding company), I had set up email and firewalls/gateways on Linux boxes. Nobody asked how it worked or what it was, they just knew it worked. One day, the boss told me he was a big fan of open source software. Turns out his idea of open source was pirated commercial software! I left that job shortly after that.
Maybe drugs that screw with your brain that much that you go into a semi-conscious zombie haze should be taken off the market.
Or sold cheap at parties ;-)
That's brilliant! I didn't even think of that stupid '^M' business... That is the exact kind of nuance I was referring to in my previous post.
At the time, I found myself with a totally unexpected problem in the process of rolling out the system. The pressure that you feel when there's a problem, after telling your boss that it will run on Windows with no problem, just sucks! I was trying to spare somebody that pain.
...Nice thing about LAMP is at least the AMP part is OS portable...
Careful with that - some nuances will turn up that will bite you on the ass. I found out last year that Apache's MD5 module creates different hashes(!) on Windows than it does on UNIX.
I finally convinced my employer to use Subversion to provide version control on our Pro/E CAD files by bringing in my BSD server and doing a demo for the bosses. It was a beautiful setup, including ViewVC so the gals in Customer Service have access to drawings and visibility into what has been completed. Our IT guy is a standard Windows guy, so I had to set it up on a Windows box for him. I fought that, but politics won! I included a web page to change the Apache passwords, which worked fine on Linux and UNIX using Apache's MD5 module. That was when I found out that the MD5 results were different - none of our passwords would work until we re-created all of them using htpasswd(.exe) on the Windows box. Eventually, I wound up just authenticating users off of the AD server, which was a more elegant solution anyway.
This might be what started all of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWi9xAAxOWE
:D
I have an Aspire One as well. Mine is running FreeBSD, with wireless networking via the ath_hal kernel module.
I had to recompile the kernel using the latest 7.1 source snapshot to get the Atheros card working. The link/activity light doesn't work (no big deal, really!), but the wireless connection 'kill switch' on the front of the case works. I haven't tried running it as a WAP yet, but now I want to give it a try! The ath kernel modules in BSD have supported AP mode for some time now; if it doesn't work that way, I may look into porting Sam's code.
FreeBSD users can also now feel smug and superior in this regard, as well. (Finally!)
While we have been able to make video somewhat work over the years, including browser plug-ins, there have been some improvements in the upcoming 7.1 release that are making it quite similar to Linux as far as media support goes. We can now reliably watch all of the video formats, including Flash 9 and DVD's. The ritual is pretty much the same as Linux - install W32 codecs, install flash, install CSS decoder, etc.
If you have been steering away from FreeBSD for multimedia issues, you may want to give it a try when 7.1 comes out. Oh yeah, for a couple years now, there is also a hardware-accelerated Nvidia driver for the i386 platform, and ports of Compiz and Beryl.
Have you looked at Subversion lately?
http://subversion.tigris.org/
'Document management system' is kind of ambiguous, but this may be what you are looking for. I have it set up on an entirely open source server running FreeBSD 7, and I use it to manage CAD files for a group of 8 engineers. We have just set up a separate repository for our QA manager to track revisions to our controlled forms and procedures for our ISO 9001 requirements.
I figure it ping's a few known servers and calculates its location from the time. In which case, it could easily be fooled by a VPN or Tor.
Or Comcast. ;-)
You do realize that ClamWin currently does not have an on-access scanner, don't you? That means a zero detection rate unless files are manually scanned. Right now, your 'clueless users' are unprotected.
That bitch!
Just as I suspected!
I saw an article on CNN for a social networking site in the works (I don't remember the name of the company offhand), where you sign up with your cellular phone number to allow your friends to locate you.
The first thing I thought of was some dude signing up as his girlfriend or the girl at the bar who gave him her number last night, and then the stalking begins. The gal from CNN thought about it too - she asked him if he ever thought of that. His reply was something like 'Oh, well, uh, we could set it up so that when you sign up you can have the site text your phone when someone tries to locate you or something.'
Fortunately the dot-com craze is far behind us, or this idiot may already have investors!
Yes, the buffer is on the hard drive. It is a circular file that overwrites itself when it reaches 6 hours of content. It is erased at power-down or startup (not sure which) also. That was the basis of the hardware hack idea I tossed out there. Like I said, I wouldn't waste the time to disassemble the unit and hook the hard drive up to a computer, just to find out that the buffer is cleared on power-down, or that the buffer is some unusable, proprietary data stream, maybe even encrypted.
I guess I should have been more clear in my post - by 'save to the hard drive' I meant copy the movie from the buffer to the library area of the drive as a selectable title (which could subsequently be burned to a DVD).
I actually chose the Philips because the hard drive can be replaced, although you won't find it in the owner's manual! I was thinking about extending the DVR's life beyond a drive failure, though, not hacking copy protection.
In the Chicago area, Comcast blocks some content from recording. Many of the on-demand movies and some of the premium channel programming cannot be recorded by a standard DVR. This is on digital cable in standard definition, using an off-the-shelf Philips DVR (not Comcast's).
My DVR will buffer these programs, allowing rewind, pause, etc. If I try to record it to the hard drive it refuses to, giving a message of 'protected'. I'm not sure exactly how they do it - I always thought they may be broadcasting Macrovision codes with the signal.
I suppose it could be hacked by a hardware hack like removing the hard drive and collecting the movie from the buffer, but nothing that is being broadcast is worth the effort! It's bad enough that I waste time sitting in front of the tube viewing this 'high value content'. I'm sure as hell not wasting more time trying to copy it. It is nearly summer here - there are much better things to do most days.
....Babak Pasdar, a computer security consultant, has not been seen nor heard from since he left a client site earlier today. His family life was stable and solid - his family suspects foul play. Federal officials suggest that no foul play was involved, and regret that they cannot waste their resources on a missing person who 'probably ran away to start a new life.'
Full story at eleven....