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Oh yes "just use flash" for embedding multimedia stuff. And, uhhh, where's the spec for that?

Google swf format spec produced a specification for SWF in PDF format as the first result, readable in the free PDF.js reader included in Firefox.

They're LEOs. You'd need to teach them to read first.

Since they caught him, what does that say about the intelligence of the BitCoin dude.

Here's a picture of Pascal Reid and he's exactly as you'd expect him to be. A pasty, doughy hipster who probably subscribes to Ron Paul's newsletter and has his own PornHub Pro account.

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/12...

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/12...

Under MacOS (no spaces = "classic")

Apple has always used a space with Mac OS since it officially adopted the term for 7.6. (Source: Installing Mac OS 7.6)

You mean the "special...brand of forensic science" - like DNA and hair analysis - that has proven to be outright fakery?

*squints hard at screen*

The parent sorta has a point. I can't vouch for the ratio, but I would definitely agree that newer cars have a proprietary/integrated dash and console arrangement that don't conform to the DIN standard (ISO 7736) in comparison to older vehicles. My perception is that this is getting worse with each new model.

There is a ray of hope however. Scosche is a major brand of custom aftermarket bracket and adapters for car audio. Chances are that if it's dimensionally possible, they've already created a kit for your vehicle. For example I also own a 2009 Honda Civic; the Scosche-HA1561 Dash Kit is only 40 bucks from Crutchfield (discounted when purchased with other stuff). It also comes in three colors depending on your interior. If they didn't take the market seriously, I wouldn't have expected that as optional. For reference, here is a photo of the factory radio for a comparison.

BTW, I don't mean to come off as a shill for Crutchfield, but I'm experienced in shopping there in the past. If you know of a competitor that you recommend, by all means share. I'm always looking for reliable alternative sources that I can price cheaper. :)

Link: here

This is a lie.

It prompts you when you install if you want it enabled or not.

Here is the prompt

Let's be realistic here. DNT has always been a joke. It's like getting stacks of hundrad dollar bills, setting them up on a table in times square next to a sign with reads "please don't take my money because I trust you and am doing nothing to protect it other then putting up this sign." Even making this a law will be ineffective. Browser makers need to refuse anything that ever resembles cross-site cookies or images. That's the only fix and even there I can think of about a dozen ways around it.

you are wrong, startup dialog courtesy of this post

They should have made a huge startup dialog "Do you want to be tracked"

Have you actually seen the startup dialog?

It's not that DNT is on by default; as is made clear, choosing the Express settings will turn it on.

The browser out of the box does not have DNT set in either state.

I see you've never used an APL keyboard before.

I haven't tried it, so I won't knock it. I will however, stand over there uncomfortably when others are discussing MLP .

That's how it starts with everyone. It's OK.

The more beautiful and pure a thing is, the more satisfying it is to corrupt it, but the point of Remix Culture is that the listener/viewer is no longer sure as to what's corrupting what.

To that end, I've actually never seen more than a few seconds of the actual show, but who could resist Weird Al Yankovic doing 80s pop songs? Polkas on 45? 30 years later, someone drops a new meme on it, turns a parody into a parody of a parody, and suddenly it's funny all over again.

Just yesterday, Pinkie Pie herself showed up in the as an example of how not to do software testing on the GitHub Bumblebee thread on software testing, I think it's OK to admit it. I think the MLP viral fad is funny. I enjoy it. There, I've said it, and I feel better.

After the Presidential Press Conference announcing the long-overdue demise of OBL, watching the trailer for Serenity, the lead single and polka track off the new Weird Al album, Reggie Watts, Wu-Tang, or Rebecca Black (just kidding) sung by ponies, you won't care.

All links SFW graphics, a few naughty words, and thoroughly NSFS (Not Safe For Sanity).

do you really need to boot the machine with a livecd? by intel/realtek wireless, buy HP/Epson printers/scanners, by just about any nvidia/intel/amd videocard you want(GMA500 is to be avoided). Other than that, i'm not aware of a lot of main stream hardware that doesn't work. Have any examples that i didn't already cover?

Printer/scanner compatibility can be found at http://www.linuxprinting.org/
AMD compatability can be found at https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_107_linux.pdf
nvidia compatibility found at http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-256.44-driver.html
Intel graphics compatibility found at http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html
NDISWrapper compatibility found at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Main_Page

Looks like both a large bovine, and one that has the double muscling gene. (Which also occurs in other species -- humans, dogs, and I believe also mice.)

A whippet with double muscling is a bizarre sight.

For audience members with a poor grasp on dog breeds:

This is a whippet. This is a double-muscled whippet.

It's a mutation, but sadly the whippet has been turned down for the X-Men on the grounds that it's female and only huge-muscled males are accepted as superheroes. Females must have the related huge-boobs-and-no-waist gene.

Your not the only one..

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Malcolm+Mayes+Cartoon/1007472/2410729.bin?size=620x400

Ummm, they fixed that in the last driver iteration. Try it out and get back to us...

Exactly. Downside, I now have a dead key on my keyboard, and on my particular keyboard it's even larger than the regular shift key. That's pretty inexcusable for a laptop keyboard. The regular US English one doesn't have this little annoyance, but still.
http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/51/3049331182291562/www.info.apple.com/images/kbase/304933/304933_08b.gif

If the wrong people caught you, it being illegal would be the least of your problems.

Searching the company's website, there is no mention whatsoever of even a single
gallon of usable fuel being susccessfully produced using their method.
There is, of course, mention of "investment opportunities".

A few month ago there was an interview on local talk radio (Bud Hedinger Live, 540 WFLA, Orlando) with a guy from Bell Bio-Energy. It's very similar to this, and also has no proof that they've made a single drop of oil.

http://a1862.g.akamai.net/7/1862/14448/v1/esa.download.akamai.com/13452/qt/ATV_Reentry_High-2008-09-29_qthigh.mov

Sorry, but you're not even close.

The way Akamai works is it distributes the "heavy duty" content like images, scripts. to its own servers all around the world. It then lets its customers (like E*Trade, to pick one actual example) modify their static HTML content to refer to those images in a special way. For example, the E*Trade home page has the following link in it for one of its images:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/n/248/1777/20080228.0/www.etrade.com/images/prospect/topGrad.gif

The url is specially encoded in such a way that when your local DNS server queries a248.e.akamai.net, the DNS server returns a server located physically near you. So if you're in England a248.e.akamai.net might resolve to an IP located in Londan, but in New York City it would resolve to an IP somewhere in New York. Then when the http request is sent, Akamais servers decode that annoyingly long URL to determine which customer of theirs it is and serve up the correct image. It's actually a fairly complex and fast process. If the server that you're directed to doesn't actually have the image locally then that Akamai server will query another nearby Akamai server. If that server also doesn't have it then it'll actually pull the image down from a master server that E*Trade uploaded the image to.

You can test this out yourself by looking up the IP address of a248.e.akamai.net yourself. Locally you'll get one IP. If you do a google search for dns lookup tools you can submit that domain name to other sites to look it up and you'll get totally different IP's that are physically close to wherever that domain lookup tool runs from.

The bottom line is that it's a prety complex process that involves both the use of DNS to ensure you download large chunks of content from physically near servers as well as some pretty sophisticated caching in the background to make sure static content is delivered rapidly no matter where in the world you are.

I used to work at Akamai so I have a pretty good firsthand knowledge of how their stuff works. I doubt a lot of their algorithms they use would pass the "obviousness" test...

Oh yeah, this is going to rock because it can easily fall into the small world of the small person. If you listened to the radio show there were callers who were seriously concerned about their small business and personal welfare. Granted, these guys sounded pretty professional and not annoying script kiddies, but this type of breach is likely to get the attention of mom and pop and not just corporate bozos. Finally a "reality show" of modern situations that accompanies the FUD articles from mass media to make people realize that skilled attackers can easily chew on what people think is secure

(reminds me of the fool who installs $200 locks on his front door which is basically balsa wood)

That would be a "kernal panic" in Apple-speak, except that Macs never crash so it must have been my imagination.

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run

ati.com was still linking to the old driver for me, im not sure if it is for everyone else, however, this URL
should let you download the new driver:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run

Try this link: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run

the BSA and Apple agree on this one. In a recent report from the BSA they consider the US to be the top in the world on the 'protection' subject (page 16).

Bruce Fine is a conservative, he is not some Liberal. This is from the Tom Hartman show. You can also hear Bruce Fine on Bill Moyers.

Click Here to listen

Bah. Everyone knows it's really the clanwallace effect.

You do that and you have no video, perhaps no 3d also ,

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.co m/drivers/linux/linux_8.33.6.html#183417

or no xv on tv-out http://folk.uio.no/henger/htpc/ati-pal-tvout.jpg

http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309

system FREEZES on 3d,

--locked-userpages={on|off}

Enable/disable locked user pages. Disable this option if the system

hangs when running fgl_glxgears.

User page lock is no longer available on AGP system now

The decision not to include the fglrx crapware is indeed the right one

When I interviewed Platt for a podcast, he was very good at describing the errors that he writes about in the excerpt the Computerworld ran last October.

-Eric

As another poser pointed out, the timestamp for that file is a gif which is located at: http://a423.g.akamai.net/7/423/1788/00909b5e4f1ead /www.tivo.com/i/timestamp.gif

WTF?

Honestly would you rather have your boxy OEM loud-as-hell and not very sleek Dell or a shiny iMac or Mac Mini/Cinema Display out in the living room? The one in the common living space is going to get the most use.

It's why the sunflower iMac G4 did so well; people didn't mind it out where it could be seen.

Nothing wrong with Cardigans!

The current Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel has already a podcast.

The first podcast (obviously in german): http://a4.g.akamai.net/7/4/12313/v0001/medien.www. bundesregierung.de/podcast/Die_Kanzlerin_direkt_01 .m4v

All podcasts of Angela:
http://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/Webs/BK/DE/Aktuelles /VideoPodcast/video-podcast.html

What do you think about it?

I am running Mandriva 2006, kernel 2.6.16.1 (from the SoS RPM repository), xorg 6.9, fglrx driver from the PLF RPM repository - the version before 8.26.18, I think (I don't have my laptop with me). The ATI linux driver release notes have some more info on existing issues with TV-out, and I have never tried to use it.

I think the biggest difference is that you are using a suspend2 kernel. I don't have suspend2, and suspend to memory works just fine (suspend to disk I can't try because I didn't set up my swap partition large enough).

Hope this helps, I will verify the exact version of the ATI driver once I get home...

Yea, I got that message too.

So, out of curiosity, I peeked at their shockwave file:
http://a1.g.akamai.net/f/1/25623/1h/exxonmobil.dow nload.akamai.com/25623/theHub/multimedia/home_land ing.swf

exxonmobil?

Anyone who understands Akamai (better than I) feel up to explaining how that works? Shouldn't Wal Mart get their own subdomain walmart.download.akamai.com?

I had the same problem too just a couple days before being released the stable version :-(. Just do the following:
1.- Download the previous working version from: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.co m/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.24.8-x86.ru n
2.- Follow the instructions for the new driver 8.25.18 and compile manually the packages just as described in the Unofficial ATI Linux Driver Wiki:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Dapper_Ins tallation_Guide#Method_2:_Generating.2FInstalling_ Ubuntu_packages_for_the_8.25.18_drivers_in_Ubuntu_ Dapper_Manually

That should restore your drivers the way they were and will get 3D acceleration back again. The procedure will work out nicely on a 6.06 Dapper / LTS box.

Cheers.
Carlos.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Wake-up call:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.co m/drivers/Catalyst_63_release_notes.html

Mario Kart DS. Haven't you seen some of the new tracks?

It Hasn't Got A Single Scratch. Not One.

It looks as new as when I got it. That proves it's feasible to design something fashionable, affordable and durable.

Like it or not, Apple is using the fashion appeal of iPods as a selling point. Look at the iPods advertisements: shiny!, not scratched.

1. Show shiny iPod advertisements to a judge
2. Show the video where Jobs pulls an iPod out of his pocket
3. Do the same with a brand new iPod in front of the judge
4. Show the now scratched device to the judge
5. Win the case.

This one is going to cost Apple dearly. And that's a good thing because we'll eventually have better iPods as a result.

Right on. I always install Adblock with Firefox or Mozilla. I haven't seen a pop-up or flash advertisement for months. They all seem to come from a few advertisers. Here is my adblock list:

http://.mediaplex.com/* http://.tribalfusion.com/*
http://.doubleclick.net/* http://.adbureau.net/*
http://.atdmt.com/* http://.emode.com/*
http://.advertising.com/* http://.tickle.com/*
http://.fastclick.net/* http://.falkag.net/*
http://.e.akamai.net/* http://.yieldmanager.com/*
http://.casalemedia.com/* http://.serving-sys.com/*
http://.pointroll.com/* http://.thinktarget.com/*
http://.zedo.com/* http://.com.com/cnwk.*/Ads/*
http://.qnsr.com/* http://ar.atwola.com/*
http://ads.guardian.co.uk/* http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/*
http://.starwave.com/* http://ads.ign.com/advertisers/*
http://ads.space.com/RealMedia/ads/* http://gfx.dvlabs.com/*

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/2002091473/ww w.wired.com/news/images/full/pinstripesuit_f.jpg

Check out the pic and you tell me this fruit isn't wearing makeup, and a pretty nice pinstriped suit. This is the guy that built the FedEx boxes.

He's broke, but has enough money for makeup, a nice suit, and PINK hair?

Please.

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/2002091473/ww w.wired.com/news/images/full/pinstripesuit_f.jpg

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/2002091473/ww w.wired.com/news/images/full/pinstripesuit_f.jpg

Check out the pic and you tell me this fruit isn't wearing makeup, and a pretty nice pinstriped suit. This is the guy that built the FedEx boxes.

He's broke, but has enough money for makeup, a nice suit, and PINK hair?

Please.

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/2002091473/ww w.wired.com/news/images/full/pinstripesuit_f.jpg

I found the link for those of you who are interested in downloading it before it comes available from yahoo. mac version http://a191.g.akamai.net/7/191/1560/1/widgetgaller y.com/downloads/Konfabulator2.dmg windows version http://a191.g.akamai.net/7/191/1560/3/widget.tempo rary.com/downloads/Konfabulator2.zip

I found the link for those of you who are interested in downloading it before it comes available from yahoo. mac version http://a191.g.akamai.net/7/191/1560/1/widgetgaller y.com/downloads/Konfabulator2.dmg windows version http://a191.g.akamai.net/7/191/1560/3/widget.tempo rary.com/downloads/Konfabulator2.zip

Speaking of "trade dress" the cover of the book looks like in about 5 seconds you won't be able to "click the blue E" due to it being inside the fox and in about 12 million tiny pieces! http://a1204.g.akamai.net/7/1204/1401/05040811011/ images.barnesandnoble.com/images/9350000/9354791.j pg

More... I can see this being really popular in Japan.

Upon further inspection, it's definitely running Mac OS X. http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/2002091469/ww w.wired.com/news/images/manual/smartboard2_f.jpg This clearly shows a blue apple in the upper left hand corner, and the bottem panel is that of Mac OS X's. Problem solved, I guess. :)