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Supermount is not included in the vanilla kernel. If anyone is compiling a kernel for Mandrake, or any other distro that gives errors when trying to mount non-root filesystems, you need to apply the supermount patch. Just in case the parent poster's link doesn't work, I got mine here, (don't let the .cx scare you) and it definately works. There is no 2.6.7 patch on that site as of yet, but i used the 2.6.6 patch on the 2.6.7 source, only applying the supermount part of the patch (this patch does more then just supermount) and it compiled and worked fine. Another point to note, I am using Mandrake 10, and coulden't get my filesystems to mount even with supermount because I didn't select the loopback module under block devices. Make sure you select this as a module if you are using supermount.

Do you use the bookmark toolbar at all?

I use them extensively, and I found that I only had room for the menu bar + bookmarks on the first bar, and the second one has URL + nav buttons.

Here's a slightly outdated screenshot (I changed themes and changed some nav buttons since this):

http://rbpark.ath.cx/Screenshot-Firefox.png

Here's a link that goes straight to the "story" it's really just a note. But it has a few links and I think one of those has their PDF that is an awesome read.

What is much more interesting, in my opinon is open source lab hardware and, in fact, there is such a thing. There is a team at at UCSD who's whole lab is dedicated to using plain old PC-CDRoms to do analysis of samples. That is far more empowering for the open source style of operation than just some academic collaboration that has settled on a database format.

The project is called Discode. I've written to the guy who is the head of the project for my own biotech site I started putting together last year. Right now they have a web page that is very cryptic, but they're looking for kernel hackers who have experience in CD-ROM drivers. Now, that's hot. That's real open source. At my still not quite public site, I have a few links to press releases of their first published paper on their work.

But since I don't have the bandwidth, I'll point you to the original article. Here. And this is pressingly relevant because these traditional journals are claiming that they're upholding the scientific tradition, while, in fact, the evidence is that they are pressing their editorial slant to try and bend the agenda of independent researchers to their whims.

It was fun to build though LED signs aren't very useful. Posting a link to a newsgroup was the best thing I did with it. My webcam was pointed at it so anyone could see what it was displaying, there was a log of messages, and you could even draw on it.

It was fun to build though LED signs aren't very useful. Posting a link to a newsgroup was the best thing I did with it. My webcam was pointed at it so anyone could see what it was displaying, there was a log of messages, and you could even draw on it.

Thats what symbolic mode is for on modern devices...

Clik for examples. They also have a neat equation writer built in.

Mods: please donate a point to this to enlighten the parent.

Here are some Examples. Scroll down the page. I bet if you think you can pick it up in a few minutes.

Survey says... people don't like DRM.

2002 Lawsuit againts SunnComm

Good discussion on DRM
The problem with trying to protect information with technology is that it has been shown repeatedly not to work. It only takes one person to crack the protection, and a million people can get a digital copy of the cracked work in days. During DEFCON, a digital security conference held in America last year, a Russian programmer called Dmitry Sklyarov illustrated this by showing how easy it was to circumvent the protection on Adobe's "E-Books". For this service to the public and to Adobe he was arrested and tried by the FBI, under the provision of the DMCA, the American version of the EUCD already part of US law since 1998.

Obviously, the same problem exists with the technology Macrovision & SunnComm are currently proposing. It just takes one person to create a DRM-less digital copy & post it on the latest P2P network...

Missles?

Note yeah, it'll be alittle slow to grab.. but thats because that box is on a DSL line.

Seriously, have any other /.'ers created their own system?

Yes, I did. A simple gallery script I took from somewhere on the net and modified it to fit my needs. There is a cron job launching a perl script that downloads mails from a mailbox and puts the attachments on the gallery and the body of the mail under the image on the web page.
Very simple, but allows me to blog from my mobile phone.

It's also a quite decent phone, with good reception according to howardchui.com and my own experience on the west and east coasts. (To tell the truth, I use it less as a phone than as a way to check my email and browse the web with Opera [for Symbian 6 -- released but no longer supported].)

As evidence of the utility of phonecams I present my website, typically filled with pseudo-artsy low depth of field shots, but also sprinkled with phone pics. A recent gallery.

Its worth a try I guess.. The movie, or the episodes? Or both?

i got it and i put it up in these places one here
and here

RPN is a bitch to read on paper. Thats why no textbooks are written using it.

There are screenshots etc of RPN on this page. I think screenshots are much easier to follow then a half-assed example from slashdot.

Also, here's a quote I copied from ticalc.org

With RPN you can do stuff 'step-by-step' rather in in one large chunk like algebraic (or resort to hacks like ANS(1) etc). A simple example is finding the derivitive of sin(x)+x all over the square root of x.

with an algebraic calculator, you'd type

DER ((sin(x)+x)/sqrt(x))

in one hit. Its possible to make a mistake with the brackets if you are not careful - and here the brackets are only a few levels deep! Think about a more complex problem.

With RPN, you'd type

X SIN --> SIN(X) is shown on the display
X + --> SIN(X)+X is shown
X SQRT --> SIN(X) + X is on level 2, sqrt(x) on level 1
/ --> (SIN(x)+x)/sqrt(x) is shown
DER--> The answer is shown

Of course, all these steps are shown in 'pretty-print' all along the way. You can ensure that you havn't made an entry mistake. Belive it or not, but I find the RPN much easier to think about because I can see what I type as I type it, if that makes any sense.

Basically, with RPN, if you press an operator (like add, subtract, integrate, etc) it gets preformed when you press it. Thats why you have to go 2 enter 2 +, not 2 + 2. Once you get your head around that its much easier.

I am a student, and have used both. I found this page Alpage.ath.cx helpful. It is a comparision between the TI and HP.

Why is something completely wrong modded up +5? Its full of errors.

They need to improve the hardware. I don't know if anyone has tried symbolic integration on an HP. It's like those coffee commercials. Walk the dog, check the calculator, learn Dutch, check the calculator. The HP49g+ still runs on a 4 bit bus

Bullshit. The 49g+ has an ARM processor. The bus is 32 bits. You can calculate 299! and the result will display in the blink of an eye (try that on a TI-89). see This {Page for some specs

but TI can actually perform calculations in a reasonable amount of time.

HP's hardware beats the crap out of TI's. You can up 512MB of memory in a 49G+. compare the 2

Clickable link for the lazy

Maybe you should take a look at the 49G+ - it's got a 75MHz ARM cpu, not a crappy 4MHz Saturn. See This Page for a comparision between the HP49G+ and the Ti-89. The HP looks like the winner to me.

And if you bought an early HP with the unreliable keyboard, HP will replace it for free. Ring the number inside the manual.

Some Examples.

I doubt anyone will actually see this besides you so I will post the meat of my squid.conf file. It doesn't block ALL garbage, as for it only blocks the garbage that I have encountered. In a way it is only as good as the person that *trained* it.

What I have done essentially is enabled the real time URL filtering access control list abilities of squid. It isn't clean but instead of plastering it with crazy regular expressions, I have attempted to keep the list in alphabetical order (well I need to sort it yet again...).

I also have a fairly massive host file that cover some sites that I am not blocking. Though I could technically incorporate the host file into the squid file but I haven't done that either... lol!

I also have installed a lame little web counter that gets updated (works >50%) when redirected from the deny info tags.

you can see the configuration snippet here.

The site is pretty thoroughly slashdotted. I grabbed it a few days ago, so... mirror. You'll want one of the sphere zips and the cgsl library.

By then, the hann section will have taken care of it.

You just need a little more initiative.

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I imagine it would be possible to make the chip smart enough to do some kind of cryptographic authentication, but there's no way that would be worth it for inventory.

I kinda hope they get around to it for authentication though. That just makes me nervous.

Just posted this entry on my blog.

Keep clicking here .

I've got it open in one tab, and every so often give their server a few more kicks in the nuts^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H my support.

I have found myself very suprised that there exist no programs for linux that will author. I have a mac (yes, i know, hes looking for linux/win stuff) and I use Sizzle as iDVD cannot burn to DVD+R's, many of which I got for free. It doesn't work perfectly, but it can author and build menus.

As I understand it (you chould check out the site and email the author), this is built off of OSS such as somthing called dvdauthor - I have to believe that this has a front end for it in linux, or that it would not be hard to make...

I have found myself very suprised that there exist no programs for linux that will author. I have a mac (yes, i know, hes looking for linux/win stuff) and I use Sizzle as iDVD cannot burn to DVD+R's, many of which I got for free. It doesn't work perfectly, but it can author and build menus.

As I understand it (you chould check out the site and email the author), this is built off of OSS such as somthing called dvdauthor - I have to believe that this has a front end for it in linux, or that it would not be hard to make...

People in Japan are really taken advantage of. If they want to buy episodes, they are forced to buy 1 or 2 episode DVDs. But since digital recording is prevelant, most wait for people who supply raw rips of the shows (anime in this case), download them, and since they speak the language, can store a very clean episode on their PC. This April, the changes mentioned in the article will be taking effect so it will be impossible to download recorded shows since they will be in encrypted format. What some fansub groups are doing now are putting together all their unused cycles to try to figure out if the encryption can be broken through distributed processing. More information can be garnered here and here.

Torren of the WMV file HERE.

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Those who have read my posts before might recognize that I happen to know a thing or two about NWN. And as such I've had the needs for good DMs on my servers.

Now over time I've had a lot of players come and go from my mod and some of them were some of the best players I've seen bar none. However often their temperments and or mannerisms made them unsutable, in my judgement, to make them a DM. And guess what, most of the ones that might have had a shot were guys but it was often those "guy" tendencys that lost them the job at the same time.

Now enter in the girl RPG gamers. Since nearly everyone has made a female RPG PC (Player Chararacter for the uninitiated.) its not as easy as picking out the female avitars to find the girl gamers but after chatting with someone for a bit it typically becomes apparent. And suprise suprise, what the girl gamers sometimes lack in sheer skill they make up for in being nice, fair, and dedicated to the game!

Anyway, while from my perspective there are still some genres that are pretty much male domniated and I don't see that changing. The girl gamers are coming, and I for one welcome them with open arms.

This reminds me of an anime I've been watching recently. Normally I'm not too big on anime, but my brother was nagging me to check out this new show called 'Planetes' that's currently being fansubbed, so I did, and was pleasantly surprised. It's set in the near future and revolves around a crew of debris collectors who live and work in orbit around Earth. The idea being that in the future, space industry and space resources are so important, and the spaceships needed so prevalent that any small ammount of debris has a very high probability of strking into one of the many vessels in orbit around Earth and cause immense damage. Episode #3 centers around a space casket sent off ~50 years ago that couldn't escape Earth's gravity and had returned.

If you're interested, ed2k links here (if you sing up for an account), bittorrent links here (no signup, probably faster). I'd recommend these guys as far as fansubs go.

My favorite part about sci-fi is when characters are presented in a semi-fantastic/futuristic world where it's just taken for granted that their universe is as such, without making a big deal about it. The focal point has thus far been on the characters, while the world they live in has been mostly taken for granted, so the character development has been quite nice. In addition to that, I like how the series has thus far avoided all of the horrible anime cliches I've become so desensitized to.

mirror with the pictures...
here

here.

The SCO vs Linux legal battle took another turn today, as the SCO group plans action against Caldera, it's former self, for releasing their alleged IP. In a move that stunned the rest of the industry, SCO is effectively suing itself for initiating distribution of SCO IP as GPL code. SCO says they are assured of winning the case as they have all of the evidence and can present it in court.

SCO claimed that, to defend itself against such charges, it will be making gratuitous use of the OSDL defense fund.

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Because not everyone reads slashdot and even of those who do not everyone would adjust their card. It's a marketing decision that they feel they'd be able to sell more at a lower speed and lower clock and make the higher more expensive one more desirable Even if the entire web community knew about it not everyone would know or attempt and they would just sell enough.

On the other hands maybe they suddenly have some underclocked ones that will now sell through the roof as all geeks are buying them, and they get to sell thousands more cards all ones they don't have to honor the guarantee for because they were overclocked when they failed

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> And finally there's XM Radio for TiVo."

Is there a Tivo like device for normal FM or AM radio? I enjoy a few programmes on radio but not too many, and it would be a benefit to record these simply.

I guess I could use my PC for it but it would be more convenient to have a Tivo like option

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> but I haven't been affected by it yet. I hope it stays that
> way too.

I have had one defective one which was in 1989, it's fine for me too.

> What can be done (individually or communally) to not get
> burned by defective disks?"

Oh that IS the RIAA/MPAA at work. See they have disks now that are getting us for burning them, those disks burn back!

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It may not reduce spam, but it may very well reduce the possibility or severity of joe-jobbing for my own domain. That's enough reason for owners of domains to put an SPF line in.

It may not be very long until so many domains have it that it is useful for MTA applications to take notice of them so there's incentive to do it I think

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> 2) Spammers tend to use made up domains anyways.

This is true, but combined with domain checking AND SPF I can see it being more powerful than both.

for ex.
spammer makes up umergeh.drewhs.com
email gets canned because the domain is fake. lose for spammers

spammer sends faked address from aol.com
SPF shows its a fake sender (rteal IP not match aol.com spf list). lose for spammers

spammer at aol sends real spam from aol.com
aol come down and bite spammers head off, spammer goes to jail. lose for spammers!

SPF is only one tool, and there are many combine them together and you have strength

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How many more ISPs/mailservers will set this up? Only once it gets to a large level will it be useful, and even then what of when complete domains are forged?

OK I'm instantly cynical with any new technology. I can see SPF working well once it's widespread, but it's not a cure-all, just one step in the right direction.

Now to get all the mailers that accept mail to listen to what an SPF has to say.

Are there any reasons a mail application would purposely NOT want to read an SPF, that could undermine the process?

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Actually, this isn't an entirely bad way to fund a fraction of the mission. Have like, some kind of a "who wants to be the first on Mars" TV show were the best and brightest compete to have one (1) seat on the mission to Mars. Make the network that gets this show pay oodles of cash.

We may do better in reverse. Send only the dumber ones by the time we get it right and can guarantee more than a miniscule level of survival, we will send the smart ones

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> While a nice place for an observatory, we should go
> straight to Mars.

Considering how quick it is to get to the moon (a few days travel) and how quick it is to launch off the moon (not much in the way of gravity) a moon base could very well be part of that "straight to mars". Launching everything at once is risky, if we throw things up in pieces it could build up a far better base to start with, on the lunar surface. Use the moon as a tool to get to mars, not sit around exploring it. We've been there done that

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> "Who Will You Vote off the Planet?"

I think you have a fantastic idea. Can we start with the loosers from next year's American Idol?

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You saw what a crazy lunatic William Scott Lockwood III became after someone hunted down his information. Be weary.

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Some Examples. and Some More. But the Equation Writer is best for copying things from paper.

Don't forget the Casio Claspad. I have one, and its pretty nice. I just prefer a real keyboard.

This Page compares the TI-89 with the HP49G+. I don't own the HP, but it looks like the winner.