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Stripey

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  1. my most listened to tracks from the last 2 months aren't even due for release for another 2 or 3 months. I don't even know what half of them are called, and in some cases don't even know who made them.
  2. make sure your cv is up to scratch before sending it out, most agencies will be happy to give you pointers on how to fix it since it's in their interest not to field poor candidates. Unfortunately, if it's just a page with "i've just got a degree" and your only experience is working part time for 2 months in spar, you're not going to have an easy time of it. Also, get a haircut.
  3. It's not theft, it's copyright infringement which is a civil offence, not a crime. The shoplifting analogy is entirely inappropriate.
  4. Sorry but whinging about piracy is like king kanute trying to command the tide. It's always going to happen and it's technologically impossible to prevent, the failure of schemes like DRM and CSS dvd encryption make this perfectly clear. Nobody sells betamax videos anymore, because nobody wants betamax videos or has betamax players. You don't see betamax manufacturers moaning about it, they've adapted and moved on. Anyone still in the market of investing in the production and retail of betamax video tapes in 2008 would be branded a lunatic, and probably locked up if they started bringing lawsuits against people for using VHS and suing people for lost revenue, just because reality no longer fits their obselete business model. This is exactly the situation the music industry is in today. Lots of people no longer consider music to be worth what the industry says it "should" be worth. Lots of people are no longer awed by slick marketing and huge publicity campaigns, letalone the cult of personality that drove the whole thing during the 80's and 90's for example (think michael jackson etc). Lots of people can get music for nothing without even leaving their house and they are happy to do so, and will continue to do so. Is the answer to bring lawsuits against these millions of people for simply doing what is in their own interest rather than what's in the interest of an industry widely regarded as corrupt, bloated, shallow and detrimental to the artform? No, the answer is to admit the business model is dead and adapt. In the free market businesses don't have a right to make profits, the public however have a right to act of their own free will. The customer is always right, and the customer has had enough of paying through the nose for something they don't feel is worth what's being charged, so they've gone somewhere else where it's cheaper and easier to obtain.
  5. You can't say anyone is out of pocket, because they are presuming people are willing to pay for the stuff in the first place. Which they clearly aren't. You can't say "oh but I would have made x amount if nobody had downloaded the tunes". You can't say that anyone who has downloaded the tunes would have paid for them otherwise. It's revenue that *doesn't exist*. As I pointed out earlier, illegal downloading is a fact of life, it's there, deal with it, work around it, don't go slapping civil law suits on kids for downloading the latest coldplay album.
  6. My thoughts on the matter is : fuck em, get with the times. Publishing something as ephemeral as the daily news on actual paper, and a day behind events is just madness. As I said though, gradual phasing out rather than abruptly ending all newspapers would be the way to do it.
  7. I use sun virtualbox to run the latest ubuntu and opensolaris from inside xp pro, works a treat, the network interfaces even work out of the box (although it's still using NAT) oh yeah and saving the machine state takes seconds, and you can restart it whenever you need to quicker than it takes to boot linux.
  8. If music is your main job, and your stuff getting downloaded is causing you to be pennyless, I'd say that means you're not very good at your job. Moaning that the public doesn't want to buy your product anymore (as the record companies are doing) is pathetic and unrealistic.
  9. True, the only people that really "suffer" from illegal downloads are massive mainstream labels who expect millions in income off the new justin timberlake album.
  10. basically you have to have one or the other interfaces up, it will be defaulting to using the wired interface most likely. bringing it down then bring up the wlan0 interface with ifconfig, and then setting the default route should do the trick.
  11. looks like it's associated, but the interface isn't up. As root in a terminal type ifconfig eth0 and then route -n this will show you the IP of the wired interface and the IP of your router if you dont already know it. assuming your routers IP is 192.168.1.254 : ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig wlan0 up 192.168.1.50 (or the same ip your wired interface is using for convenience) route add default gw 192.168.1.254 (or whatever your routers IP is) in a terminal as root, that will disable the wired interface, bring up the wireless interface and set up the correct route. If that doesn't work ifconfig wlan0 down ifconfig eth0 up 192.168.1.50 (or whatever the IP was before) route add default gw 192.168.1.254 ( or whatever your routers IP is) will bring the wired interface back up
  12. if you can, post the output of ifconfig wlan0 and also iwconfig wlan0 (highlight the text with the mouse and use shift-ins to paste into the browser)
  13. right, well your driver is working, so it's the configuration that's the problem. Is it associating with the AP? If you look at your routers admin panel it should list associated devices...
  14. Pretty much true, it's still not anything close to being an acceptable install and go OS for the general public. Having said that, I just installed slackware 12.1 on my laptop and the wifi/ethernet/sound worked out of the box and I was in X and watching videos on youtube with firefox within 5 mins of the install finishing...Ubuntu is definately overrated.
  15. open a terminal, as root type: ifconfig -a it should show all the network interfaces, usually eth0 and lo0 which are your wired network card and loopback interfaces, then the wireless interface, which might show up as something like eth1 in the case of my intel integrated wireless card in my laptop, or ath0, ra0 or wlan0 depending on the chipset in your card. If only eth0 and lo0 show up then the driver isn't working. If there's a third interface then the driver works but the configuration is wrong. which wireless card do you have? Some of the newer chipsets can be a pain in the ass to get working.
  16. is the driver recognising your wifi card and is the interface showing up in ifconfig?
  17. if neil changes the background to #00FF00 the redesign will be complete.
  18. seriously, going for a walk or a bike ride, climbing a hill etc costs nothing and gets you outdoors in the fresh air and new scenery. I'm sure I'm not alone in having bought a set of weights and an exercise bike only to have them languish in storage for months after a couple of weeks of use. Who needs a tread mill, rowing machine or exercise bike when you can do the real thing...
  19. informative post of the month prizewinner.
  20. Technologically impossible, they need to be tolerated and worked around.
  21. I think people still go out and buy things like CDs and hardcopy newspapers (which IMO should be extremely heavily taxed with the aim of completely banning them in the near future) because they're either technologically deprived, or completely passive brainwashed consumers that are just the last hangers-on to the 20th century paradigms of how content "should" be delivered. In the same way, the mainstream music industry is desperately hanging onto that old paradigm despite the genie of p2p/mp3 being well and truly let out of the bottle years ago, because it hasn't yet found a way to effectively (bollocks to itunes) adapt its business model and industry hegemony to fit the new reality while still retaining their absurd level of profit making. They realise they're finished and have resorted to intimidating people into complying with them, because those same people have the power to finish them off completely if only they would have the intelligence to realise it instead of blithely, unwittingly helping rebuild all these pointless profiteering power structures in the online domain. Anyway my point is, cd artwork, lyric sheets, wierd cd cases that don't fit your cd-rack are just "value adding" tat which is supposed to make you feel ok about paying over the odds for a CD. I think people have been artificially inculcated over the last 50 - 60 years with a misguided view of the value of music because of the insane lengths the industry goes to in order to market its products. Getting people to believe that packaging, or for that matter the physical storage format matters is a huge con that only benefits the industry middlemen.
  22. no, I'm saying that a comic book is not as realistic as a film in it's ability to depict violence. Pretty obvious I would have thought? Seeing a drawing of something is hardly on the same scale as seeing something "actually" happen in a film isit?
  23. albino3 predator korg ms20 korg wavestation lounge lizard ep3 I could go on but I wouldn't want to bore people with PICTURES of machines that make AUDIO.
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