'Virtual PC' Still Slow But More User Friendly

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Is AOL More Ad-User Friendly?
(AdWeek.com)

Is AOL More Ad-User Friendly?
(AdWeek.com) 09/22/2004 06:38 PM
AdWeek.com - As an ad medium, America Online has struggled to compete with rivals Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN. But nine-month AOL Me-dia Networks president Michael J. Kelly declares the Time Warner unit has turned the corner--and some advertisers and agencies agree.

Linux Getting More User Friendly

Linux Getting More User Friendly 02/03/2003 10:14 AM
The old line on Linux that it was hard to install and harder to maintain is finally starting to give way: "...a fresh Redhat 8.0 install its amazing how far its come. The Font's, icon crispness and overall look is light years from where it was."

Making DVDs user friendly

Making DVDs user friendly 02/01/2005 10:12 PM

I have been messing around with a similar conundrum. I have a PocketPC that I drag everywhere and just got a 1Gb SDIO card that works with it. I found a product called DVD2PPC which rips DVDs to WMV files compressed to the viewed on the PocketPC. It works pretty well. Sometimes the audio track is off. But for the most part it works. and I get 5-8 movies on my PPC.

I'll be that Apple is discussing with studios about movie downloads. The iPod is the perfect platform for this. My PocketPC plays video and it won't be long before iPods do.

I guess I’m not typical.

It’s rare for me to watch a DVD at home anymore. If I’m watching TV, it’s a basketball game, something on HDNet/Movies, or one of the HD channels, or something I Tivo’d. Typically Dave Chappelle or Law & Order.

About the only time I actually place an actual DVD into a DVD player is when it’s for my daughter.

That’s not to say I don’t want to watch DVDs, or I haven’t watched DVD’s. I do, and I have.

I watched them in hotel rooms on my PC. I’ve watched them on my PC when I’m on a plane.  Mostly, and I’m sure this was my fault for not being careful, I watched half ‘till the end, the other half until they stopped playing because of a scratch.

Is there anything more irritating than a scratched DVD?

So I thought I would do something about it. I have already written about how I think hard drives will have a significant part to play in how we experience and watch video content. What I hadn’t done personally was take the time to convert DVD’s I had PURCHASED to a format that could be easily stored on my new remote control sized, 80gbs Firelight.

My plan was to take the drive, stuff it with movies, and use it to launch movies I could watch on the road.

What a pain in the ass.

I used 3 different rippers. All pretty much worked in realtime. Slow. Tedius. Didn’t rip correctly every time.  My dream of taking 20 or so movies on the road with me died a sad death halfway through the boredom of coming back and checking to see if Dodgeball was done.

Which leads to the “aren’t I the customer here moment,” we all have.

Why isn’t an AVI, DIVX, WMV, MOV or any format of computer usable video put on one of the DVD’s ? Anything but those pain in the ass VOB files. Most DVD’s have the less than 1gbs in space left.

It can be copy protected for those studios with Piraphobia (fear of piracy).  I just need the ability to copy it 3 or 4 times (don’t want to be left off when I put it on my new 250gbs mobile drive next year ).

I would even pay a premium for it…Put a sticker on the package saying this DVD has a format compatible with PC hard drives.

Better yet, you could put it online. Let me put my DVD in, it checks your website for authenticity,  I give you my demographic information, you let me download a file I can put on my hard drive.

You win, the customer wins and guess what? When it comes time to buy a DVD, and it’s a toss up between the movie that makes it easy for me, the customer, vs. the one who doesn’t care about me. Guess which one I pick ?

If no one wants me as their customer, then I do more of what I’m starting to do now. I take the movies and tv shows I record from my computer based PVR and copy them to my little harddrive (in minutes for everything), and watch them on the road instead of buying your DVD’s.

Complications lose customers. Simplification gets customers. 

Related. ..

[Blog Maverick]

XandrosOS: User-friendly to a fault

XandrosOS: User-friendly to a fault 02/16/2004 01:14 PM
Reg Review Linux with all the drawbacks of Windows

User-Friendly Form Validation with PHP
and CSS

User-Friendly Form Validation with PHP
and CSS 04/23/2004 07:14 PM
Any non-trivial web application processes form data, and every secure web application has to validate that data on the server. Balancing security with user-friendliness can be tricky. Jeff Cogswell demonstrates one approach.

Another crack at user-friendly feeds

Another crack at user-friendly feeds 05/03/2004 07:57 AM

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User-friendly BI takes shape

User-friendly BI takes shape 06/21/2004 07:35 AM
Actuate and MicroStrategy continue to battle over an enterprise market increasingly demanding more user-friendly business intelligence from a single BI platform.

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.9

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.9 08/03/2004 02:14 PM
A Scintilla-based, scriptable text editor.

10 Easy Steps To A User Friendly Website

10 Easy Steps To A User Friendly Website 12/21/2003 02:33 AM
WebDevInfo Dec 21 2003 1:25AM ET

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 03/16/2003 10:59 AM
CUTE 0.1.3 released

Sony's User-Friendly Copy Block

Sony's User-Friendly Copy Block 11/11/2003 05:51 AM
Sony's new CD technology would prevent copying songs to file-sharing sites -- the music industry's worst nightmare -- while still letting customers make copies for their own use.

Evolt.org: Making Tables User-friendly

Evolt.org: Making Tables User-friendly 10/01/2002 08:16 AM

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.8

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.8 06/06/2004 11:29 PM
A Scintilla-based, scriptable text editor.

O'Reilly: User-Friendly Form Validation
(PHP/CSS)

O'Reilly: User-Friendly Form Validation
(PHP/CSS) 04/23/2004 08:00 AM
On O'Reilly PHP DevCenter this morning, there's a new piece that will make a lot of PHP coders' lives easier - U ser-Friendly Form Validation with PHP and CSS

Sony's User-Friendly Copy Block.

Sony's User-Friendly Copy Block. 11/10/2003 11:20 PM
Reuters: Sony's User-Friendly Copy Block. Extra crap on a CD does not make up for the inconvenience of DRM. The fact that a Sony CD only works with Sony portable music players is not like the iTunes Music Store only working with the iPod, since people have expectations that they can legally rip their legally-purchased CDs however they want. Give me a CD or nothing.

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.2

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.2 11/16/2003 01:29 AM
A Scintilla-based, scriptable text editor.

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.7

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.7 04/12/2004 03:37 PM
A Scintilla-based, scriptable text editor.

TopCash Launches New User-Friendly
Extractor and Burner

TopCash Launches New User-Friendly
Extractor and Burner 06/10/2004 02:47 AM
Extracting and copying CD or DVD files is a must for anyone who listens to music on their computer. TopCash Extractor and Burner Makes this process a snap. [PRWEB Jun 10, 2004]

Wired News: Sony's User-Friendly Copy
Block

Wired News: Sony's User-Friendly Copy
Block 11/11/2003 09:14 PM

3G technology making the lives of people
easier through user-friendly compelling
applications

3G technology making the lives of people
easier through user-friendly compelling
applications 06/22/2004 02:42 AM
AME Info Jun 22 2004 6:37AM GMT

Wells Fargo's Internet exec makes its
site user-friendly and an effective
sales tool

Wells Fargo's Internet exec makes its
site user-friendly and an effective
sales tool 12/27/2003 09:04 AM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 27 2003 8:06AM ET

New Dual Channel Digital LVDT Readout
and Setpoint Controllers Offer
User-Friendly Operations, Versatile
Applications

New Dual Channel Digital LVDT Readout
and Setpoint Controllers Offer
User-Friendly Operations, Versatile
Applications 03/19/2005 03:12 AM
Macro Sensors introduces two new six-digit, dual channel controllers for applications involving LVDT-based displacement transducers or VR half-bridge gaging probes. Economically-priced, the DMC-A2 Dual Channel AC-LVDT Controller and DMC-D2 Dual Channel DC-LVDT Controllers perform arithmetic calculations between two channels for T.I.R. measurements or differential measurement for use in production lines to automatically gage products for quality control and product sorting. [PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]

Stellus Systems™ Sets New Standard
for Consumer-level GPS Receivers for
Smartphones and Handheld
DevicesHigh-Performance GPS Receiver
Transforms Mobile Devices Into
User-Friendly Navigational Tools

Stellus Systems™ Sets New Standard
for Consumer-level GPS Receivers for
Smartphones and Handheld
DevicesHigh-Performance GPS Receiver
Transforms Mobile Devices Into
User-Friendly Navigational Tools 01/05/2005 03:27 AM
Stellus System, Inc., a leading system integrator of wireless communication products, announced today the SSI-SDIO-1000, the first high-performance, rugged GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver with a SDIO (Secure Digital Input/Output) interface designed for power conscience consumer-level applications. Stellus’ unique design enables mobile devices, such as Smartphones and connected PDAs, to receive GPS signals and, together with off-the-shelf GPS mapping software, transforms them into navigational receivers. [PRWEB Jan 5, 2005]

Shark Tank: Let it slow, let it slow,
let it slow

Shark Tank: Let it slow, let it slow,
let it slow 12/25/2003 12:48 AM
It's the height of the holiday shopping season, and this pilot fish is hitting a big computer and electronics store to stuff his stockings. Then comes time for him to check out.

Groove remodels its 'virtual office'

Groove remodels its 'virtual office' 07/08/2004 10:13 AM
Among other perks, Groove's collaboration software now lets workers send alerts whenever a shared document or "workspace" changes.

Lottery proposes 'virtual racing'

Lottery proposes 'virtual racing' 04/15/2005 11:10 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 16 2005 3:35AM GMT

'Virtual Girlfriend' Demands Gifts (AP)

'Virtual Girlfriend' Demands Gifts (AP) 08/27/2004 01:59 PM
AP - She needs to be coddled with sweet talk and pampered with gifts, but you'll never see her in the flesh. A Hong Kong company has developed a "virtual girlfriend" for new cell phones with video capability.

Gaps Seen in 'Virtual Border' Security
System

Gaps Seen in 'Virtual Border' Security
System 05/31/2004 12:56 AM
New York Times May 31 2004 4:49AM GMT

EMC slices and dices Centera into
'virtual pools'

EMC slices and dices Centera into
'virtual pools' 06/22/2005 02:47 AM
More app friendly

MTV Paying $160 Million for a 'Virtual
Pets' Site

MTV Paying $160 Million for a 'Virtual
Pets' Site 06/22/2005 02:03 AM
The MTV Networks unit of Viacom Inc. bought Neopets Inc. for $160 million, adding the youth-oriented Web site to a children's programming lineup.

MacCenter to host 'virtual book signing'

MacCenter to host 'virtual book signing' 05/14/2004 06:18 PM
MacCenter, South Florida's oldest Apple Specialist Dealer, will host a "virtual book signing" on Saturday, May 22, as part of their day-long "Meet and Geek" gathering...

Labour runs 'Virtual Conference' using
webcast

Labour runs 'Virtual Conference' using
webcast 09/27/2004 03:10 AM
PublicTechnology.net Sep 27 2004 7:10AM GMT

'Virtual Tradeshow' to Address Top
Security Threats

'Virtual Tradeshow' to Address Top
Security Threats 01/06/2005 12:02 PM

Harvard and Beth Israel create 'virtual
patient'

Harvard and Beth Israel create 'virtual
patient' 04/08/2005 01:08 AM
Canadian Healthcare Technology Apr 8 2005 5:08AM GMT

Joy of Tech authors to hold 'Virtual
Book Signing'

Joy of Tech authors to hold 'Virtual
Book Signing' 01/07/2004 06:44 PM
Nitrozac and Snaggy, creators of The Joy of Tech comic series, are celebrating MacWorld Expo week by holding a virtual book signing...

Too Much Work to do, but Not Enough to
Hire a New Employee? Internet Offers
On-Demand 'Virtual Assistant'

Too Much Work to do, but Not Enough to
Hire a New Employee? Internet Offers
On-Demand 'Virtual Assistant' 04/15/2005 04:39 AM
24-7PressRelease.com Apr 15 2005 8:21AM GMT

Major union turns to Internet to create
'virtual labor group'

Major union turns to Internet to create
'virtual labor group' 06/23/2004 06:11 AM
Enquirer.com - Wed Jun 23, 08:50 am GMT

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer 08/30/2004 05:24 PM

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
Here're my running notes from danah boyd's Re venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

The response is an attempt to "configure the users" -- constrain behavior to acceptable behavior with messaaging, kicking people off, etc.

This won't work: you can't tell a hacker not to hack. These kids are social hackers. You can stop some bad behavior, but you chase off your best users, too.

Dating doesn't happen because you're in a dating context. Dating arises out of real contexts.

Taking away fakesters didn't make Frienster more real. Friendster is unreal because people never remove their friends, even if they never see them (the exception is when you break up, ironic, because ex-lovers are strong ties!).

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Tiger Performance Boosts

Tiger Performance Boosts 06/05/2005 10:56 PM
James Duncan Davidson: “There are some specific performance updates, however, that are very noticeable. One of the biggest is in the Terminal. The speed improvements in the text rendering subsystems really shows itself here. Dump lots of text to a Terminal window and it just screams by in comparison with Terminal on Panther.”

Comparing MySQL performance

Comparing MySQL performance 03/14/2005 05:31 PM
With the introduction of the 2.6 Linux kernel, FreeBSD-5-STABLE, Solaris 10, and now NetBSD 2.0, you might be wondering which of them offers superior database performance. In my previous article, I discussed the tools I chose to test these venerable operating systems and the methodology by which they were tested. The result is this MySQL performance comparison between OpenBSD 3.6; NetBSD 2.0; FreeBSD 5.3 and 4.10; Solaris Express (build 69); and Linux 2.4 and 2.6 (Gentoo-based). Read on for the results.

MySQL/InnoDB Performance Talk

MySQL/InnoDB Performance Talk 04/14/2004 10:28 AM
Some notes from Peter's MySQL/InnoDB Performance talk at the 2004 MySQL User's Conference... DBT2 Benchmark, http://sf.net/projects/osdldbt. He uses 2.4.21 kernel, no swap, and the ext3 filesystem. Runs benchmark, checks status output (SHOW STATUS or using mysqladmin), then begins tuning. First thing to do is enable the slow query log. Find queries in slow query log, run EXPLAIN on the slow queries, converting non-SELECTs to SEELCTs when needed. Index tweaking often follows. Check SHOW PROCESSLIST for slow queries too (I'd recommend...

High Performance MySQL is Hot off the
Press!

High Performance MySQL is Hot off the
Press! 04/12/2004 02:22 AM
If you happen to wander by The O'Reilly and Associates web site soon, you'll notice a new book featured in the "Hot off the Press" section of the home page: High Performance MySQL is an insider's guide to the poorly documented issues of MySQL reliability, scalability, and performance. The book gives in-depth coverage of MySQL indexing and optimization so you can make better use of these key features. You'll learn practical replication, backup, and load-balancing strategies with information that...

Advanced SQL Tutorial and MySQL
Performance Workshop

Advanced SQL Tutorial and MySQL
Performance Workshop 07/28/2004 11:15 PM
Tuesday morning I stopped by a few minutes of Joe Celko's Advanced SQL Tutorial. Joe has an amazing knowledge of the SQL language, no doubt. Lots of arcane knowledge and references to "when we had the discussions in the SQL committee we did discuss that". But the tutorial was a bit too DBAish for me. By that I mean too much "this is how data should be neat" rather than "this is how you solve real business problems". While I...

Book Review: High Performance MySQL

Book Review: High Performance MySQL 07/27/2004 06:25 PM
"In the first chapters, the authors briefly review some basics of MySQL. The concepts they discuss are pertinent to database performance. Chapter 1 explains the configuration file my.cnf and how it can be set to improve a MySQL server. The authors also discuss the results of the SHOW VARIABLES statement and the SHOW PROCESSLIST statement so that an administrator can determine where the MySQL service is being slowed because of inefficiencies." Story

High Performance MySQL (the book) is
Shipping!

High Performance MySQL (the book) is
Shipping! 04/19/2004 04:32 PM
As noted on our site for the book, O'Reilly brought the first copies to the 2004 MySQL User's Conference in Orlando and it had sold out by the middle of the second day. Woohoo! Now Amazon reports that the book is shipping in 1-2 weeks (rather than being pre-order), and we even have our first customer review posted too. I read the front matter and first three chapters on the plane ride home last night, pen in hand. I didn't...

Apple’s New iMac G5 Line Delivers
Faster Performance, Built-in Wireless
& Mac OS X “Tiger”

Apple’s New iMac G5 Line Delivers
Faster Performance, Built-in Wireless
& Mac OS X “Tiger” 06/06/2005 12:12 AM

Understanding real-time performance
statistics in MySQL

Understanding real-time performance
statistics in MySQL 05/24/2004 07:40 AM
CNET May 24 2004 11:47AM GMT

Democrats slow-walking to 2004

Democrats slow-walking to 2004 09/20/2004 04:58 PM
Is the GOP Weary of Estrada Filibuster? 4/21 .. Robert Novak's column this morning .. A quick exit from Iraq is likely .. War is worrying Republicans .. best tribute to Neal .. states the obvious .. remind me please .. Novak

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Slow, Steady Ad Growth Predicted For
2004

Slow, Steady Ad Growth Predicted For
2004 12/30/2003 02:48 PM
SiliconValley.Internet.com Dec 30 2003 1:19PM ET

ITAA: IT job growth to slow for rest of
2004

ITAA: IT job growth to slow for rest of
2004 09/08/2004 04:24 PM
Despite a 2% increase in IT employment early in the year, IT job growth for the rest of 2004 is expected to be slow, according to the Information Technology Association of America.

EnGarde Secure Linux Advisory: MySQL,
MySQL-client, MySQL-shared, mod_php, php

EnGarde Secure Linux Advisory: MySQL,
MySQL-client, MySQL-shared, mod_php, php 12/16/2002 04:17 PM
"Stefan Esser from the PHP.net project discovered two vulnerabilities in MySQL which range from crashing the server to executing arbitrary code as the user under which the MySQL daemon runs (mysql)..."

Put a Tiger in Your Tank... in 2005
(28-Jun-2004; 14.7K)

Put a Tiger in Your Tank... in 2005
(28-Jun-2004; 14.7K) 06/28/2004 09:40 PM

CNN.com - CBS apologizes for OutKast
performance - Feb. 16, 2004

CNN.com - CBS apologizes for OutKast
performance - Feb. 16, 2004 02/17/2004 02:23 PM
They should have spoken up when P-Funk was doing this 30 years ago .. CNN.com - CBS apologizes for OutKast performance - Feb. 16, 2004 .. RENEGADE REDSKINS ATTACK CBS

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iMovie 4.0.1 Improves Performance
(28-Apr-2004; .8K)

iMovie 4.0.1 Improves Performance
(28-Apr-2004; .8K) 04/28/2004 01:16 PM

iMovie 4.0.1 Improves Performance
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iMovie 4.0.1 Improves Performance
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Word Up! Word 2004, That Is
(21-Jun-2004; 24.4K)

Word Up! Word 2004, That Is
(21-Jun-2004; 24.4K) 06/21/2004 08:41 PM

Flash MX 2004 gets performance,
stability tweaks

Flash MX 2004 gets performance,
stability tweaks 11/11/2003 08:09 AM
Macromedia has updated Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 to version 7.0.1, which includes performance and stability improvements as well as expanded documentation.

Tax Partners Celebrates Another Top
Performance Year in 2004

Tax Partners Celebrates Another Top
Performance Year in 2004 02/01/2005 09:27 PM
Nation’s largest sales tax compliance firm celebrates another top performance year in 2004 and adds 12 new clients in 4th quarter. [PRWEB Jan 27, 2005]

Flash MX 2004 Gets Performance,
Stability Tweaks

Flash MX 2004 Gets Performance,
Stability Tweaks 11/11/2003 10:29 AM
Macromedia has updated Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 to version 7.0.1, which includes performance and stability improvements as well as expanded documentation. By Dennis Sellers (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu)

2004: PC running on MS word

2004: PC running on MS word 07/07/2004 06:09 PM
Calcutta Telegraph Jul 7 2004 10:38PM GMT

With Word 2004, Microsoft Finally Gets
Everything Right

With Word 2004, Microsoft Finally Gets
Everything Right 09/24/2004 06:23 PM
Microsoft does seem to be making a quality product these days. By Adam Robert Guha, Low End Mac (via MyAppleMenu)

Mac under fake Word 2004 attack

Mac under fake Word 2004 attack 05/12/2004 12:39 PM

Word 2004 Bigger, Better, But Not Faster

Word 2004 Bigger, Better, But Not Faster 08/02/2004 07:06 PM
If you need the utmost in cross-platform compatibility in your word processor, or if you need a "writing" program more powerful than many desktop publishing systems in the past, Word 2004 is for your. By Dennis Sellers, Macsimum (via MyAppleMenu)

Welcome to the 2004 MySQL Users
Conference

Welcome to the 2004 MySQL Users
Conference 04/13/2004 03:44 PM
Well, as you can see, the registration desk is open for the 2004 MySQL User Conference. The conference begins tomorrow and runs thru Friday. I'll attempt to use the hotel's reasonably good wifi coverage to post occasional pictures and summaries of what's going on. Well, if I have time. You can never tell at these things. Anyway, if you want to follow along on that much of the action, I'll be posting everything to the MySQL category of my...

PHP.net: Call for Participation MySQL
Con 2004

PHP.net: Call for Participation MySQL
Con 2004 12/12/2003 09:14 AM
PHP.net has a quick new posting about participation in the MySQL User Confrence 2004:

My MySQL Talks at OSCON 2004

My MySQL Talks at OSCON 2004 03/06/2004 02:09 AM
Having seen that several others (Radwin: HTTP Caching and Cache-busting, Kruckenberg: Using MySQL for Binary Storage, Brad: LiveJournal's backend and memcached; past, present, and future) have blogged about their OSCON 2004 presentations being accepted, I thought I'd do the same. This year I proposed two talks. The abstracts are pretty limited so far, but here's what I've got: MySQL Performance Workshop This is a 3 hour tutorial style talk aimed at all MySQL users. This session will cover the...

2004 Performance Report on Intellectual
Property Protection in Taiwan

2004 Performance Report on Intellectual
Property Protection in Taiwan 06/22/2005 02:08 AM
MyEGov Taiwan Jun 22 2005 6:10AM GMT

'Virtual PC' Still Slow But More User Friendly

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