Disclaimer: I don't currently, nor have I ever, used WebDAV before.
Well, KDE 3 supports WebDAV. If you use Konqi to browse to your WebDAV folder, you can open the documents therein with any app - KDE copies it to a tempfile, then re-uploads it when the editor terminates. At least, that's how it works for the other protocols, e.g. FTP. KDE native programs upload the file on every save.
"apt-get install foo" downloads and installs the binary "foo" package. "apt-get source --build foo" downloads the source for "foo" and compiles it. You get the best of both worlds this way. You can install whatever binaries you want, and still get the speed benefits of source builds - but at your own discretion.
It's still not as sophisticated as *BSD's ports, since it can't build foo's dependencies, and it doesn't install the packages after they've been compiled. But, it's a start, and hopefully we'll see more advanced features in the next version.
"RPM-based (in fact, all binary-based) distros should go the way of the dodo bird."
It seems like more and more people are latching on to the source-based OS these days. It appears to have become the Slackware of the new millennium. That is to say, the Real Men use source-based distros, and anyone who uses a binary distro is a stupid uneducated newbie sod who couldn't figure out how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
Well, here in the real world, there are people who want to install software without waiting for everything to compile. In fact, the reason I stopped using Slackware was because it took too long to compile, install, and configure all the software it didn't come with.
While your systems is laboring to compile XFree86, I'll be using mine, with software from binary packages.
It is possible to both like NIN and like more traditional industrial. Trent's a great musician.
Sure it's possible to like NiN and real industrial music. I like some of NiN's earlier stuff, particularly Broken, I just don't consider it "real" industrial. It's taken a lot of the popular industrial themes and repackaged them for mass consumption. It's much more relevant as a funnel to get more people interested in the more pure forms of electro/industrial than any of it's own artistic merits.
And Trent Reznor is a pretentious fuckwad. Though I can't find the link right now, I read an interview from abour a year before "The Fragile" came out. The interviewer asked him what the new album would sound like, and he said it would be "something like what you call industrial today."
That one sentence carries loads of superiority and pretentiousness completely undeserved from someone who has copied so many of the unique elements of industrial music.
Which reminds me of one of my favorite bands ever, Chemlab. I have no idea how I forgot about them. Anyways, check out their 1994 release, "Burn Out At The Hydrogen Bar". It is utterly fantastic.
I've heard that there's supposed to be a new release (after being broken up for... 6(?) years), though I haven't seen anything official.
Saw a band I'd never heard of posted in a USENET group last year...
dunno if Cleo's been eaten by the RIAA cartel yet, but the last time I checked, Cleo was clean...
AFAIK, they continue to be a decent label. I don't like a lot of the tribute/compilation releases they put out. Some are good - the industrial AC/DC tribute, uh... "Covered In Black" is real good, particularly Razed In Black's cover of "Hell's Bells" - but some are crap.
Looking at their website, I see that they've just signed Zeromancer. Check these guys out, they're great.
Certainly. Well, as long as I can call you a grotesquely twisted & deformed mockery of a deranged aberattion of one of the less successful offshoots of the the cro-magnon race, with apologies to the other members of the aforementioned race, since you really don't do them justice. And you might want to consider culling your insults from something with a tad more sophistication than South Park.
Of course, that might require you to read. I gather that reading is not your strong point, since your opinion of the DMCA seems to be fed by Slashdot trolls more than reality.
"The DMCA is *related* to copyright... It is not copyright by itself."
No. The bill (summary) was passed into law. You will notice that it amends U.S. Code Title 17, which is listed as "Copyrights". So you aren't strictly wrong when you say it's "related" to copyright law; it's just as related as any other copyright law.
Now, if you'd like to continue your incoherent obstinante raving diatribes - which do nothing to weaken the initial perception of a deranged monomanical fanatic come unhinged in a frenzy of delerious bavardage, unrelated notions flowing arbitrarily from the shattered remnants of his subconcious mind - feel free. But try to be a little less senseless. Basing your statements on facts would probably be a good place to start, you witless fucking numbskull.
Maybe I wasn't clear. I really liked RtCW a lot. The catacombs creeped me right out.
My point was that I don't enjoy the original Wolf3D games as much since I played RtCW. They just look too cheesy, and it just doesn't get my blood pumping the way that RtCW.
The mere thought of a new DOOM game is certainly exciting, but... RtCW ruined any joy I could possibly have replaying the old Wolf3D games - there's such a massive gap between high tech 1992 and high tech 2002.
I have many fond memories of playing DOOM late at night with the volume cranked way up, and it was the game that gave me my love for horror games (Silent Hill, etc) - but could DOOM 3 destroy the replay value of the original DOOM games?
I think the only saving grace is DOOM's atmosphere - I remember getting jumpy a few levels into episode 2. The graphics in Wolf3D couldn't really present an atmosphere like that.
And just what precisely the fuck do you think that C stand for, you degenerate clod? Maybe it means cocksucker. Oh, wait. That can't be right; you could never get a piece of legislation named after you.
"I'm glad that I'm not the only who's doing this. Just last month, I was looking around for industrial music and decided to download the entire 'Downward Spiral' album off of LimeWire."
If you are interested in real industrial music, versus that electrotechnoalternapop NiN shit, go buy some stuff on the Metropolis Records label. They have contracts or U.S. distribution rights to huge numbers of fantastic industrial/electronic/experimental/goth acts, such as:
Apoptygma Berzerk VNV Nation Icon of Coil Haujobb Das Ich Front Line Assembly Juno Reactor In Strict Confidence Kevorkian Death Cycle Leaether Strip Pulse Legion :wumpscut: Suicide Commando
They also have loads of stuff available from their online store. They provide MP3 samples of their albums. They don't charge royalties for Internet radio broadcasts of material by their artists. They aren't RIAA members. Their CDs cost a more-normal $14-$16, versus the $19-$20 most major labels are charging.
In short: these are the good guys. Go buy from them and support non-mainstream music.
I almost mentioned this in my prior post, but I figured it went without saying. Of course no material is 100% reflective - I assume that "100%" really means ">= 80%" or some other similar margin of error.
My point was that the material may reflect some light frequencies and absorb others.
"However, if the CD's back layer is really 100% reflective, how come when I bring one to my eye I can see it's semi-transparent? Are you sure that all CDs work the way you said?"
CD drives use infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. I imagine that they use a material that reflects 100% of the infrared light, but does not reflect 100% of human-visible light, giving it a translucent appearance to us lowly bio-beings.
transcode is a fantastic app. It can convert just about any kind of video stream to any other kind. It supports cropping, resizing, etc etc. Careful with the current prereleases, there are some nasty A/V sync issues. 0.6.0pre1 & 2 work best for me.
It's pretty tough to get right on the commandline, so grab dvd::rip, a nice perl/gtk frontend. Most useful, dvd::rip has a nice gui for using transcode's cluster encoding. That's right, you can build a dvd-ripping cluster. I have a 4-node setup, and it only takes a few hours to rip a dvd, using two-pass DivX 4.02. Careful with the newer prereleases, there are some nasty A/V sync issues. 0.6.0pre1 & 2 seem to work best for me.
I would suggest using one of the MPEG-4 variants (DivX 4.x, or XviD) in two-pass mode. In my experience, this produces very good quality. I rip my movies to one 1.4gb file, which I then split onto two CDs. You might be able to afford slightly larger file sizes, to do AC3 audio pass-through, for example.
If you double or triple your storage capacity, consider just storing the unencrypted VOB files - you'll get superior audio & video, as well as all the alternate audio & subtitle tracks.
"This just allows one to choose a better tasing tea without having to select for caffein content."
Might I suggest Good Earth teas? Their Black tea is the strongest, with Green tea in second place. The Green tea tastes better than Black, and still has enough caffiene to get me going. It's also not nearly as hard on my digestive system as coffee.
It is more expensive, but don't let that fool you. I've saved quite a bit of cash since I switched, since I no longer eat three tins of Altoids a day for my creature-from-the-black-coffee-lagoon breath.
Well, it used to work like that, but I think that a lot of telcos use some sort of A->D->A these days. I know that PTI (now CenturyTel) was at least experimenting with using Frame Relay for voice calls as early as '96 - '97.
I would be quite surprised if the whole system was still 100% analog.
Even though the player is payware, I'm sure it's worth it. It sure looks like it from the screenshots.
theKompany is a good company which has done a lot for the KDE/FS community. They have developed Aethera, Kamera, KDE Studio, Kivio, and Kugar, all of which are available under the GPL for free.
Support the companies that support Free Software. Buy something from theKompany.
Ah, yes... The shareware rack. I never got suckered into that, I had a blazing fast 14.4k modem, so I just downloaded all the shareware from my local BBSes.
However, I once saw one of those racks at Future Shop. On the back of every package was the phrase "Hermetically sealed to prevent viruses!"
"I have never needed to bend a CD (what, am I going to put it through a fax machine?), nor would I like it if my CDs were bendy."
I usually carry a few CDRs full of MP3s in my laptop bag. On one occasion, I went to pull one out of the bag, and it had actually broken in half. I've also had some scratched, jewel cases cracked etc. It seems to me that a CD that was more resilient would be a good thing in some ways.
It should be noted that I don't treat my original CDs like I treat my copies. It costs me $0.50 and 20 minutes to make a new CDR copy, but $18 (+tax) for a new original.
"...the majority of folks were into heavy metal..."
But heavy metal wasn't invented until the early '70, pioneered by groups such as Black Sabbath, gaining more acceptance in the mid-to-late-70s with bands like Judas Priest, AC/DC and KISS, eventually being brought to the mainstream by Metallica and Megadeth, and finally sold out, combined with the failed Punk movement, and/or integrating elements of Rap and Alternative music into the bands we know & hate today: Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Korn and Godsmack.
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Disclaimer: I don't currently, nor have I ever, used WebDAV before.
Well, KDE 3 supports WebDAV. If you use Konqi to browse to your WebDAV folder, you can open the documents therein with any app - KDE copies it to a tempfile, then re-uploads it when the editor terminates. At least, that's how it works for the other protocols, e.g. FTP. KDE native programs upload the file on every save.
There's a WebDAV mode for [X]Emacs, and Emacs/w3 supports WebDAV.
Of course, if you go with DavFS, any Linux app can access WebDAV servers.
With Debian, you do.
"apt-get install foo" downloads and installs the binary "foo" package.
"apt-get source --build foo" downloads the source for "foo" and compiles it. You get the best of both worlds this way. You can install whatever binaries you want, and still get the speed benefits of source builds - but at your own discretion.
It's still not as sophisticated as *BSD's ports, since it can't build foo's dependencies, and it doesn't install the packages after they've been compiled. But, it's a start, and hopefully we'll see more advanced features in the next version.
"RPM-based (in fact, all binary-based) distros should go the way of the dodo bird."
It seems like more and more people are latching on to the source-based OS these days. It appears to have become the Slackware of the new millennium. That is to say, the Real Men use source-based distros, and anyone who uses a binary distro is a stupid uneducated newbie sod who couldn't figure out how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
Well, here in the real world, there are people who want to install software without waiting for everything to compile. In fact, the reason I stopped using Slackware was because it took too long to compile, install, and configure all the software it didn't come with.
While your systems is laboring to compile XFree86, I'll be using mine, with software from binary packages.
It is possible to both like NIN and like more traditional industrial. Trent's a great musician.
Sure it's possible to like NiN and real industrial music. I like some of NiN's earlier stuff, particularly Broken, I just don't consider it "real" industrial. It's taken a lot of the popular industrial themes and repackaged them for mass consumption. It's much more relevant as a funnel to get more people interested in the more pure forms of electro/industrial than any of it's own artistic merits.
And Trent Reznor is a pretentious fuckwad. Though I can't find the link right now, I read an interview from abour a year before "The Fragile" came out. The interviewer asked him what the new album would sound like, and he said it would be "something like what you call industrial today."
That one sentence carries loads of superiority and pretentiousness completely undeserved from someone who has copied so many of the unique elements of industrial music.
Long as we're talking about bands who "get it"...
:)
Which reminds me of one of my favorite bands ever, Chemlab. I have no idea how I forgot about them. Anyways, check out their 1994 release, "Burn Out At The Hydrogen Bar". It is utterly fantastic.
I've heard that there's supposed to be a new release (after being broken up for... 6(?) years), though I haven't seen anything official.
Saw a band I'd never heard of posted in a USENET group last year...
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.gothic-industrial rules, btw.
dunno if Cleo's been eaten by the RIAA cartel yet, but the last time I checked, Cleo was clean...
AFAIK, they continue to be a decent label. I don't like a lot of the tribute/compilation releases they put out. Some are good - the industrial AC/DC tribute, uh... "Covered In Black" is real good, particularly Razed In Black's cover of "Hell's Bells" - but some are crap.
Looking at their website, I see that they've just signed Zeromancer. Check these guys out, they're great.
I knew about FLA (own the discography on CD), and most of the other bands, but just discovered Icon of Coil the other day - via "pirated" MP3s.
:)
:)
Now you're telling me I don't even have to feel guilty about buying the CD this weekend, because none of the money went to RIAA? AWESOME!
Dude, thank you
No problem.
If you ever get the chance to see IOC live, do so immidiately. I saw them open for VNV Nation, and they were fantastic.
"can I call you pigfucker? Thanks."
Certainly. Well, as long as I can call you a grotesquely twisted & deformed mockery of a deranged aberattion of one of the less successful offshoots of the the cro-magnon race, with apologies to the other members of the aforementioned race, since you really don't do them justice. And you might want to consider culling your insults from something with a tad more sophistication than South Park.
Of course, that might require you to read. I gather that reading is not your strong point, since your opinion of the DMCA seems to be fed by Slashdot trolls more than reality.
"The DMCA is *related* to copyright... It is not copyright by itself."
No. The bill (summary) was passed into law. You will notice that it amends U.S. Code Title 17, which is listed as "Copyrights". So you aren't strictly wrong when you say it's "related" to copyright law; it's just as related as any other copyright law.
Now, if you'd like to continue your incoherent obstinante raving diatribes - which do nothing to weaken the initial perception of a deranged monomanical fanatic come unhinged in a frenzy of delerious bavardage, unrelated notions flowing arbitrarily from the shattered remnants of his subconcious mind - feel free. But try to be a little less senseless. Basing your statements on facts would probably be a good place to start, you witless fucking numbskull.
"..Tribes and Tribes 2 are all team-based, but it never came out for the Mac (or Linux AFAIK)..."
Loki ported Tribes 2 to Linux. You can probably find it pretty cheap now. here's a petition to port it to Mac OS X.
Maybe I wasn't clear. I really liked RtCW a lot. The catacombs creeped me right out.
My point was that I don't enjoy the original Wolf3D games as much since I played RtCW. They just look too cheesy, and it just doesn't get my blood pumping the way that RtCW.
The mere thought of a new DOOM game is certainly exciting, but... RtCW ruined any joy I could possibly have replaying the old Wolf3D games - there's such a massive gap between high tech 1992 and high tech 2002.
I have many fond memories of playing DOOM late at night with the volume cranked way up, and it was the game that gave me my love for horror games (Silent Hill, etc) - but could DOOM 3 destroy the replay value of the original DOOM games?
I think the only saving grace is DOOM's atmosphere - I remember getting jumpy a few levels into episode 2. The graphics in Wolf3D couldn't really present an atmosphere like that.
What do you think?
"The DMCA != Copyright law."
And just what precisely the fuck do you think that C stand for, you degenerate clod? Maybe it means cocksucker. Oh, wait. That can't be right; you could never get a piece of legislation named after you.
"I'm glad that I'm not the only who's doing this. Just last month, I was looking around for industrial music and decided to download the entire 'Downward Spiral' album off of LimeWire."
If you are interested in real industrial music, versus that electrotechnoalternapop NiN shit, go buy some stuff on the Metropolis Records label. They have contracts or U.S. distribution rights to huge numbers of fantastic industrial/electronic/experimental/goth acts, such as:
Apoptygma Berzerk
VNV Nation
Icon of Coil
Haujobb
Das Ich
Front Line Assembly
Juno Reactor
In Strict Confidence
Kevorkian Death Cycle
Leaether Strip
Pulse Legion
:wumpscut:
Suicide Commando
They also have loads of stuff available from their online store. They provide MP3 samples of their albums. They don't charge royalties for Internet radio broadcasts of material by their artists. They aren't RIAA members. Their CDs cost a more-normal $14-$16, versus the $19-$20 most major labels are charging.
In short: these are the good guys. Go buy from them and support non-mainstream music.
I almost mentioned this in my prior post, but I figured it went without saying. Of course no material is 100% reflective - I assume that "100%" really means ">= 80%" or some other similar margin of error.
My point was that the material may reflect some light frequencies and absorb others.
"However, if the CD's back layer is really 100% reflective, how come when I bring one to my eye I can see it's semi-transparent? Are you sure that all CDs work the way you said?"
CD drives use infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. I imagine that they use a material that reflects 100% of the infrared light, but does not reflect 100% of human-visible light, giving it a translucent appearance to us lowly bio-beings.
transcode is a fantastic app. It can convert just about any kind of video stream to any other kind. It supports cropping, resizing, etc etc. Careful with the current prereleases, there are some nasty A/V sync issues. 0.6.0pre1 & 2 work best for me.
It's pretty tough to get right on the commandline, so grab dvd::rip, a nice perl/gtk frontend. Most useful, dvd::rip has a nice gui for using transcode's cluster encoding. That's right, you can build a dvd-ripping cluster. I have a 4-node setup, and it only takes a few hours to rip a dvd, using two-pass DivX 4.02. Careful with the newer prereleases, there are some nasty A/V sync issues. 0.6.0pre1 & 2 seem to work best for me.
I would suggest using one of the MPEG-4 variants (DivX 4.x, or XviD) in two-pass mode. In my experience, this produces very good quality. I rip my movies to one 1.4gb file, which I then split onto two CDs. You might be able to afford slightly larger file sizes, to do AC3 audio pass-through, for example.
If you double or triple your storage capacity, consider just storing the unencrypted VOB files - you'll get superior audio & video, as well as all the alternate audio & subtitle tracks.
"This just allows one to choose a better tasing tea without having to select for caffein content."
Might I suggest Good Earth teas? Their Black tea is the strongest, with Green tea in second place. The Green tea tastes better than Black, and still has enough caffiene to get me going. It's also not nearly as hard on my digestive system as coffee.
It is more expensive, but don't let that fool you. I've saved quite a bit of cash since I switched, since I no longer eat three tins of Altoids a day for my creature-from-the-black-coffee-lagoon breath.
Well, it used to work like that, but I think that a lot of telcos use some sort of A->D->A these days. I know that PTI (now CenturyTel) was at least experimenting with using Frame Relay for voice calls as early as '96 - '97.
I would be quite surprised if the whole system was still 100% analog.
Even though the player is payware, I'm sure it's worth it. It sure looks like it from the screenshots.
/FS community. They have developed Aethera, Kamera, KDE Studio, Kivio, and Kugar, all of which are available under the GPL for free.
theKompany is a good company which has done a lot for the KDE
Support the companies that support Free Software. Buy something from theKompany.
"If only we could get people doing that to the signs all the damn politicians put up around election time."
Unfortunately, many of these signs are posted on private property by the supporters of the candidate, which makes illegal to remove.
Not that it stops me.
"One-click tabs for each emacs buffer would be nice."
XEmacs has had this feature since v21.something - it's present in 21.4, which is what I use.
"Four hours."
Yeah, but think about this for a minute. The theatrical cut was around 3 hours, and this version has a full hour of R-rated footage!
Break out the K-Y, boys and girls. Time for some elf-on-hobbit action!
Ah, yes... The shareware rack. I never got suckered into that, I had a blazing fast 14.4k modem, so I just downloaded all the shareware from my local BBSes.
However, I once saw one of those racks at Future Shop. On the back of every package was the phrase "Hermetically sealed to prevent viruses!"
Had a good laugh about that one.
"I have never needed to bend a CD (what, am I going to put it through a fax machine?), nor would I like it if my CDs were bendy."
I usually carry a few CDRs full of MP3s in my laptop bag. On one occasion, I went to pull one out of the bag, and it had actually broken in half. I've also had some scratched, jewel cases cracked etc. It seems to me that a CD that was more resilient would be a good thing in some ways.
It should be noted that I don't treat my original CDs like I treat my copies. It costs me $0.50 and 20 minutes to make a new CDR copy, but $18 (+tax) for a new original.
"...the majority of folks were into heavy metal..."
But heavy metal wasn't invented until the early '70, pioneered by groups such as Black Sabbath, gaining more acceptance in the mid-to-late-70s with bands like Judas Priest, AC/DC and KISS, eventually being brought to the mainstream by Metallica and Megadeth, and finally sold out, combined with the failed Punk movement, and/or integrating elements of Rap and Alternative music into the bands we know & hate today: Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Korn and Godsmack.
"Okay, if they're blocking inbound traffic on port 80, how are they not screening out responses from Web servers when you're browsing?"
TCP/IP uses a 3-way handshake. Approximately, it goes like this
(c == client, e.g. system initiating the connection; s = server)
c ---> s SYN
c <--- s SYN+ACK
c ---> s ACK
(see this page for more information, e.g. sequence numbers)
Therefore, any packet which is destined for port 80, and has only SYN set is a packet which initiates a connection.
The command in Linux 2.4.x would be:
IPTABLES -A input -j DROP -d a.b.c.d -p tcp --syn --dport 80