Linux Getting 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.

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.

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]

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.

Another crack at user-friendly feeds

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

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'Virtual PC' Still Slow But More User
Friendly

'Virtual PC' Still Slow But More User
Friendly 03/30/2005 04:22 AM

By Dennis Sellers, Macsimum

Evolt.org: Making Tables User-friendly

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

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.2

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

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. 11/10/2003 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 0.2.7

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.7 04/12/2004 03:37 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

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.

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.

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

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]

Guru-friendly: Oracle RAC on Linux

Guru-friendly: Oracle RAC on Linux 08/05/2002 10:44 PM
For a number of years I have been deeply involved with clusters, both of the Linux persuasion and other kinds (see openMosix). I have always been interested in application-layer based clustering products: That is, application software that has clustering built-in. Oracle has offered a clustering product for quite some time; Oracle Parallel Server did, in fact, find a niche market for itself and, if used appropriately for its capabilities (read-only distributed access to databases), it fared quite well. In July 2001—a year ago—Oracle introduced the Real Application Cluster (RAC) option for Oracle9i. RAC aims to exceed the capabilities of the former Parallel Server in the areas of scalability and high availability. To this end, Oracle adapted their Cache Fusion technology for inclusion in RAC. Cache Fusion guarantees cache coherency among multiple cluster nodes (separate Linux boxes running a similarly configured RAC instance) accessing the same databases, without incurring high I/O costs. -- Moshe Bar

"tri" Moshe Bar is entirely correct that RAC will not benefit long-running batch jobs much. This is because batch jobs tend to run as a single user process. However he omits to mention that technologies like RAC probably work best in a multi-user environment with many users performing queries on the database, the typical load of a busy web-site.

"zeldman.scream1"

Adobe about to release Linux-friendly
Reader

Adobe about to release Linux-friendly
Reader 04/11/2005 03:26 PM
Final version 7 of the PDF-viewing software for Linux will be released Tuesday, News.com has learned.

United Online makes dial-up
Linux-friendly

United Online makes dial-up
Linux-friendly 12/11/2003 01:15 PM
The Internet service provider announces that it supports the Linux-based Lindows operating system for its dial-up services.

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]

ssh user@linux.ars

ssh user@linux.ars 01/28/2004 01:13 AM
Linux.Ars serves up a primer on SESCH port forwarding, plus Inkscape, a SVG app.

SCO to Sue Linux User today

SCO to Sue Linux User today 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
I tell you one thing if SCO thought they where hated before go ahead and let them sue a Linux...

Linux Home User Road Map

Linux Home User Road Map 01/03/2003 12:47 AM
A wonderful article about how Linux needs to be more like .Frankly Linux will wither and die as

User Guide to Using the Linux Desktop

User Guide to Using the Linux Desktop 07/30/2004 06:51 AM
User Guide to Using the Linux Desktop
http://www.iosn.n et/training/end-user-manual/

IOSN has produced an introductory end user guide to using the Linux
desktop. It is now available for review and feedback. This user guide is meant as an introductory guide for a user to use a modern personal computer (PC) running the Linux operating system. The main aim is to provide a self-learning guide on how to use a modern Linux desktop system. It assumes that the user has no prior knowledge of Linux or PC usage. The guide currently formatted for use as printed material, with the acompanying slides to be used by trainers. The training materials are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

Milwaukee Linux User Group

Milwaukee Linux User Group 01/28/2004 05:38 PM
MLUG Considers Charter

SCO Takes Aim at Linux User Target

SCO Takes Aim at Linux User Target 02/18/2004 08:17 PM
The SCO Group is standing firm by its commitment to sue an enterprise Linux user, even as it has missed its own self-imposed three-month timeframe for doing so. The question remains: What company will be the target?

Leo's Tip: Linux Single-User Mode

Leo's Tip: Linux Single-User Mode 08/11/2004 05:07 PM
G4 Tech TV Aug 11 2004 8:42PM GMT

User Mode Linux expert wanted

User Mode Linux expert wanted 04/23/2004 02:53 PM
While we try fitting everything into Combust, we've been considering using UML on perl.org to make it easier to host sites or projects where Other People needs to be able to login with ssh or do other silly things like that. I spent most of a weekend tampering with it a while ago and got a Debian system to boot. Yay. Then I setup networking and the kernel on the host box decided to panic. Oops. So, we are looking...

Linux wins heart of global SAP user

Linux wins heart of global SAP user 08/18/2004 12:28 PM
Switzerland's Endress+Hauser (International) Holding AG, a global supplier of process control systems, has migrated all its business applications from SAP AG to a mainframe running the open-source Linux operating system.

Today Is SCO's Deadline To Sue Linux
User

Today Is SCO's Deadline To Sue Linux
User 02/17/2004 09:03 PM
Slashdot Feb 18 2004 1:13AM GMT

Hardening Linux authentication and user
identity

Hardening Linux authentication and user
identity 09/23/2004 10:56 AM

Linux Mylex RAID Controller User
Interface 0.0

Linux Mylex RAID Controller User
Interface 0.0 11/05/2003 09:26 PM
A GUI and command line program that interface with the RAID Driver.

NewsForge: Hardening Linux
Authentication and User Identity

NewsForge: Hardening Linux
Authentication and User Identity 09/24/2004 01:43 PM

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LaCie FireWire HD, designed by F. A.
Porsche

LaCie FireWire HD, designed by F. A.
Porsche 12/15/2003 01:16 AM
The LaCie FireWire HD, designed by F. A. Porsche is as much a work of art as it is functional, but is it worth your money? We present the facts, you decide. Continu e to the review.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign

LaCie Porsche Mobile Hard Drive USB
2.0/FireWire

LaCie Porsche Mobile Hard Drive USB
2.0/FireWire 01/04/2005 06:46 AM
ZDNet UK Jan 4 2005 11:01AM GMT

LaCie intros double layer DVD burners

LaCie intros double layer DVD burners 05/25/2004 04:14 PM
LaCie has announced a line of external drives featuring the new double layer DVD recording technology, which gives users almost twice the capacity of current recordable DVDs on a single-sided disc...

Announcement: LaCie d2 DVD+/-RW Double
Layer Drive

Announcement: LaCie d2 DVD+/-RW Double
Layer Drive 05/26/2004 09:10 AM
LaCie announced the LaCie d2 DVD+/-RW Double Layer Drive, with double layer DVD recording technology.

LaCie offers new double layer DVD
burners

LaCie offers new double layer DVD
burners 05/25/2004 02:58 PM
Storage peripheral maker LaCie has announced the D2 DVD±RW Double Layer Drive. The external drive, which will ship in June, can burn DVD±R media at up to 8x speed and can pack up to 8.5GB of data onto a single disk using double layer burning technology. It will be available with FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 interfaces and includes Roxio Toast 6.0. The new d2 DVD±RW Double Layer Drive will cost US$249.

FireWire 800 Drives With Oxford 922:
Apple Statement; LaCie, WiebeTech, OWC
Updates; Oxford Statement; Taking
Precautions

FireWire 800 Drives With Oxford 922:
Apple Statement; LaCie, WiebeTech, OWC
Updates; Oxford Statement; Taking
Precautions 10/31/2003 09:38 PM
(MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu)

Announcement: LaCie DL DVD+/-RW dual
layer drive

Announcement: LaCie DL DVD+/-RW dual
layer drive 06/03/2004 10:53 AM
Roxio and LaCie announced the upcoming LaCie DL DVD+/-RW dual layer drive with Toast Titanium 6, which will provide dual-layer DVD burning capability for Macs.

LaCie warns against using FireWire 800
with Panther

LaCie warns against using FireWire 800
with Panther 10/30/2003 11:32 PM
Just hours after Apple Computer Inc. acknowledged p roblems with FireWire 800 hard drives and its new operating system, Mac OS X Panther, hard disk maker LaCie Corp. issued a warning to users about using its FireWire 800 drives with Panther. The incompatibilities only affect FireWire 800 and not the earlier FireWire 400 hard drives, according to Apple and LaCie.

New LaCie FireWire 800 Firmware
Available for Windows XP SP2 Users

New LaCie FireWire 800 Firmware
Available for Windows XP SP2 Users 08/13/2004 03:27 AM
Customers who have or plan to update to Windows XP SP2 and own a LaCie hard drive with a FireWire 800 interface should download the latest LaCie firmware. [PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]

LaCie offers FireWire 800 PC card for
laptops

LaCie offers FireWire 800 PC card for
laptops 12/09/2003 01:23 PM

LaCie To Ship FireWire 800 PC Card For
Laptops

LaCie To Ship FireWire 800 PC Card For
Laptops 12/09/2003 06:06 PM
LaCie today announced it will begin shipping in December its a FireWire 800 PCMCIA card, allowing users to add 3 seperate FireWire ports to their Mac or PC laptop: two external FireWire 800 ports and one FireWire 400 port. (MacNN via MyAppleMenu)

LaCie offers FireWire 800 PCMCIA card

LaCie offers FireWire 800 PCMCIA card 12/09/2003 01:26 PM
LaCie today announced a new FireWire 800 PCMCIA card that allows you to add two external FireWire 800 ports and one FireWire 400 port to your current laptop...

LaCie Bigger Disk: Four Drives In One
ENclosure Equals Massive Capacity

LaCie Bigger Disk: Four Drives In One
ENclosure Equals Massive Capacity 05/19/2004 10:39 AM
If you need one huge volume to organize your data, the LaCie Bigger Disk is a clean, simple solution. By Kristina De Nike, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Panther/FireWire Drive Problems: Apple's
Statement; More Firmware Updates; LaCie
Comments; Recommendations; More

Panther/FireWire Drive Problems: Apple's
Statement; More Firmware Updates; LaCie
Comments; Recommendations; More 11/06/2003 08:32 PM
Our reports on FireWire hard drive problems with Panther continue today with updated announcements from Apple, additional statements and firmware updates from drive vendors, comments and information from LaCie, and some more MacFixIt recommendations. (MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu)

MCE ships portable FireWire 8x
Double-Layer DVD drive

MCE ships portable FireWire 8x
Double-Layer DVD drive 02/01/2005 09:21 PM
MCE Technologies today announced the Lucid M8X portable FireWire DVD+/-R/RW Double-Layer Drive...

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.4.0 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch)

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.4.0 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch) 12/06/2003 03:55 AM
An application-layer packet classifier for Linux.

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.0.2 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch)

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.0.2 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch) 10/31/2003 02:44 AM
A layer-7 packet classifier for packet shaping.

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.1.0 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch)

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.1.0 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch) 11/10/2003 11:33 PM
A layer-7 packet classifier for packet shaping.

Linux Kernel IEEE 1394 Driver Integer
Overflow

Linux Kernel IEEE 1394 Driver Integer
Overflow 06/28/2004 04:49 PM
“infamous41md has reported some vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or gain escalated privileges. Various functions in the IEEE 1394 driver contain integer overflows within the memory allocation scheme. This can potentially be exploited via specially crafted requests, which may cause a large amount of data to be copied into an insufficiently sized buffer.”

Review: LaCie 321 LCD Monitor

Review: LaCie 321 LCD Monitor 03/30/2005 05:43 PM
The 321 LCD Monitor from LaCie is a bright, beautiful 21.3-inch LCD aimed at professionals willing to pay the price for accurate color.

LaCie 321 LCD Monitor (4.5 Mice) Best Current Price: $1403.40 (via ProductFinder)

MandrakeMove Bootable Linux CD Announced

MandrakeMove Bootable Linux CD Announced 12/02/2003 12:27 AM
Slashdot Dec 1 2003 6:52PM ET

LaCie pumps up 1.6TB enormo-drive

LaCie pumps up 1.6TB enormo-drive 07/13/2004 10:40 AM
Sacre bleu

LaCie rolls out d2 Extreme line

LaCie rolls out d2 Extreme line 09/21/2004 10:39 AM
LaCie today announced its newest hard drive series--the d2 Extreme with Triple Interface...

LaCie 1.6TB Bigger Disk Extreme

LaCie 1.6TB Bigger Disk Extreme 07/14/2004 09:59 AM

When you're giving the pros and cons of a 1.6TB (terabyte) hard disk array, like the LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme, and the only con is "bulky," then you're probably doing pretty good by my estimation. As a follow up to previous Bigger Disk external storage drives, there's no question the 1.6TB version is impressive, smashing together four 400GB drives into a single array that requires no special drivers to be used in Windows XP or Mac OSX. And it looks sufficiently swanky, too, if aluminum doesn't grate on you.

LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme 2TB

LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme 2TB 04/06/2005 09:10 AM

LaCie has a new network storage device called the Bigger Disk Extreme, with up to 2 terabytes of storage. The Firewire and USB 2.0 drives can even be daisy-chained to allow for RAID, either via striping or mirroring. A ton of storage and for not much money, at just $2,300.

That naming scheme seems like a dead end, though. You can't get more extreme than 'extreme.'

LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme 2TB [DigitalMediaThoughts]

GlobeTrotter: Mandrake-based 40GB Linux
Mobile Desktop

GlobeTrotter: Mandrake-based 40GB Linux
Mobile Desktop 08/28/2004 06:59 PM

Linux Bootable Business Card (BBC)
Testing

Linux Bootable Business Card (BBC)
Testing 12/31/2002 01:09 PM
The fine folks at lnx-bbc.org need your help in tested version 2.0 of the Linux Bootable Business Card. The LNX-BBC is a mini Linux-distribution, small enough to fit on a CD-ROM that has been cut, pressed, or molded to the...

Announcement: LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme

Announcement: LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme 07/13/2004 10:03 AM
LaCie announced the Bigger Disk Extreme, an external drive system with up to 1.6 terabytes of storage, scheduled for release in August.

LaCie releases OS X firmware update for
Panther

LaCie releases OS X firmware update for
Panther 11/05/2003 02:33 PM
LaCie has now released a Mac OS X version of the firmware update for its d2 FireWire 800 and Big Disk FireWire 800 hard drives that offers Mac OS X 10.3 Panther compatibility...

LaCie Boosts PC External Storage To 1
Terabyte

LaCie Boosts PC External Storage To 1
Terabyte 01/17/2004 10:56 PM
In a bit of understatement, storage enclosure manufacturer LaCie announced the "Bigger Disk" this week, a device that houses a full terabyte of storage.

Linux Getting More User Friendly

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