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(Note: I have no financial or emotional connection with the company that makes the products mentioned below. I just want to point out that for a little more you can have to keep a far more flexible product.)

This week, Target is selling for $97 the non-disposable equivalent of this gimmick, the Aiptek "IS-DV."

The IS stands for "Image Stabilization."

It records to internal memory or a SD stick. A 256 mb stick holds about 60 minutes of MPEG4 video.

It is also a still camera (5 mp, but with a non-adjustable lens), voice recorder, and MP3 player. It comes with a tripod, A/V cable, headphones, and USB cable.

I've had an earlier version, the DV4500, for about six months. It's a great little toy. I bought it so I'd have a cheap camera I wouldn't be afraid to carry around everywhere. The image quality is pretty good:

http://home.comcast.net/~stefan_jones/valley_view_ wide.JPG

The video quality is "OK." Note that this film was done under less than optimal lighting conditions:

http://home.comcast.net/~stefan_jones/kira_jumps_h oop.asf (3.3 mb ASF video)

I bought a IS-DV so I can give the DV4500 to a relative.

Stefan

Some Intel motherboards have a hardware rnd device built-in. There's even a driver in the linux kernel to access the device, and userspace tools (rng-tools) to feed the random bits into /dev/urandom at a specified interval. Check out http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/hardware-RNG/ for more info.

might some of these providers help?

http://www.rcn.com/business/index.php
http://www.abovenet.com/products/maps.html
http://work.comcast.net/smallbusiness.asp
http://www.level3.com/3385.html
http://www.cogentco.com/htdocs/map.php#

Check out my site http://home.comcast.net/~dshookowsky I probably paid the following: $0 cabinet ~$200 TV ~$200 pentium 400 with 128MB RAM ~$150 Laminate ~$100 Controls from Happ

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mreboy/inf8.jpg

I live less than 2 miles from their current Sarasota offices. This is a picture of the office lobby and front door. Try inf1.jpg thru inf7.jpg for more pics of the building they are in.

MRE

If you're asking if there's a way to launch a new process with less privileges than its parent, then there is a way: create the child process with a restricted token. A restricted token is a copy of another token, but with privileges and SIDs deleted and an optional list of restricting SIDs.

Privileges are for things like loading a driver or shutting down the system. Normally you delete all the privileges on a restricted token.

SIDs give you identity, both as a user and for group membership. A token has a SID for the user himself and each group he belongs to. There's a SID for the Users group, one for the Administrators group, etc. Deleted SIDs can't be used to gain access to resources (but will still be considered for deny entries). If you delete the Administrators SID from the restricted token, new processes created with it won't have admin access.

If a list of restricting SIDs exists, then access checks must succeed using the normal SIDs AND the the list of restricting SIDs. (See the description on the CreateRestrictedToken page)

There's two ways that I know of to use restricted tokens:
1. Use the "protect my computer" option of RunAs; this runs the program with the Administrators group and your personal SID disabled, all privileges deleted, and a list restricting SIDs the same as yours, plus the SID named RESTRICTED. This way, you can explicitly deny RESTRICTED access to things that you would normally have access to, such as sensitive things in your own profile. See Aaron Margosis's blog for a good description.
2. You can use my program, jobprc. It's a command line program that's more complicated but exposes virtually all of the power of restricted tokens and job objects.
For example, you could run Internet Explorer without admin privileges with jobprc iexplore -dsid administrators -dprivmax. IE would still have access to your profile, but it doesn't get the access granted by the Administrators group or any special privileges.

As an application developer, you could check to see if your app was started with an appropriate token, and if not, have it relaunch itself with a restricted token.

True. Though it wouldn't feel like Final Fantasy if the storyline and characters weren't uninteresting crap.

What I'm wondering is why in the world it would be bad for Hollywood to get into video games. All it means is that some expensive games will be based on movies. Designers will be able to play with some vast new options, and where's the drawback in basing it on a movie? It gives them a definite place to start, and they're playing on something familiar to people.

And meanwhile, if you don't like a game/movie mix, there are thousands of other games available. If they make something crappy, then so what? Does it erase any of the decent games? The only loss is for companies whose games already sucked, since developing for a system has also become easier (in terms of essential programming and equipment). Plus other options like Java and Flash games are on the rise. The other day, I threw together an applet with Megaman sprites and ended up with a working test sheet for a working mini-game (ctrl shoots, space jumps). Ten years ago, the requirements to do that would have been pretty phenomenal.

The drawback, I suppose, would be the corporate government getting involved and passing laws that penalize anyone challenging the bigshots. I guess it could possibly become a fascist dictatorship like the internet did, but, meh, everything's like that.

Obligatory pimping...

For information on how to encode your DVD movies to 3ivx. Check out my site... http://tutorial.applesolutions.com/

As an alternative, check this: http://home.comcast.net/~appleguru/dvdrip.html

Our team participated at Atlanta in the Vex demonstration/competition as the Sharon Eagle Unlimited and Sharon Eagle AngelBots (http://eaglevex.home.comcast.net./ We fielded two bots, numbers 13, aka "Johnny" (http://www.vexlabs.com/images/vex-robots/vex-robo t-pics-28.jpg) and number 44, aka "Lassie" (http://www.vexlabs.com/images/vex-robots/vex-robo t-pics-33.jpg). We did very well, placing 19 and 29 respectively out of 53 bots. We had the youngest member in the competition (4th grade - go David!) who was the youngest driver in Vex competition.

The competition was amazing. Thousands of 13 - 18 year old nerdy-jocks with robots. How could it get better than that?

The Vex kits are a great fit between Legos and the FRC. It's been mentioned that Vex is an Erector Set with a controller and I think that's an appropriate description. It's a great kit and when you consider what's included, a good value.

I find the problem to be the insidious architecture of XP specifically the lack of clear demarcation between a priveleged user and an admin.

And I pretty much always have myself configured as an admin type user... not because I have to all the time (I do lots of work not needing that level of access) but more because of the unpredictability of what isn't going to work in some strange way when I'm using XP as an un-priveleged user. It sucks, but I've found it to be the most expedient way, and I'm always nervous about it.

Everything pretty much works the way it's supposed to in a unix world -- the unix community is pretty savvy about what the various directory structures are for, what levels of access they provide, and how to work within that paradigm.

Microsoft! Please fix your HTTP implementation. The current one is really gruesome!

Agreed. Opera is my primary browser, with Firefox being in 2nd place, finally stepping down to IE for those few rare sites that seem to be compatible with nothing else. I started tinkering with Opera at around version 5.x, and with Opera 6.x is became somewhat usable on a daily basis (ie. most sites rendered okay, but not all), with Opera 7.x that ramped up a lot and I got hooked on a lot of the extras (RSS, M2 mail client, notes, etc). I can only think of a single web page that doesn't render 100% as intended and oddly enough, it doesn't work in Firefox either, only IE. It's javascript related. I _really_ like AdBlock in Firefox. I think it's a great idea and look forward to a similar solution in Opera. Here is why _I_ use Opera. For me, on the machines I use, Opera and its interface is faster. Scrolling is smoother (I can read text easily while scrolling it at various speeds), the mouse gestures seem easier to hit (admittedly I only use about 5 of them but sometimes in Firefox, even though I can SEE the gesture I'm making, it doesn't register), easy page zooming (I have a monitor capable of 2048x1536 @ 85hz and I routinely run at 1600x1200, sometimes higher depending on what I'm working on... those resolutions are great for image editing but wreak havoc on your eyes for reading web pages... not so, just bump the page up to 150-200% and you're instantly back in business and everything looks sharp, I love the notes feature and how you can double click on a note to go back to the source web page, it's sometimes handier than bookmarks, reskinning on the fly without restarting the program, turning sections of the interface on/off at will, author mode, fit to width browsing. I realize there's a Firefox extension for gestures, for note taking, and you can zoom the text in Firefox, but while functional, it just doesn't operate as smoothly as it does in Opera. With my large monitor I don't miss the 1/2" at the top for the text advertising strip. I can't help but get the feeling that since all of Opera's features were developed by the same group that they work together a little more streamlined than the open source collection of extensions available for Firefox. I'm not saying everyone should use Opera, but I do think it's a bit close minded for the Firefox-only crowd to put down Opera because Firefox has surpassed it in popularity/downloads. As fickle as this crowd is, if Firefox had 95% market share, you'd probably all scramble to use whatever the current underdog would be... possibly Opera? --rothbart My Blog: http://home.comcast.net/~sean.workman/blogger.html

ahh, it has a limit of returning 128 shows.

Here's a version of the script someone fixed: http://anonymous123.home.comcast.net/nowPlaying.xh tml

Wreckless and drunk driving is nowhere near popular enough for that to apply. They're both considered by the majority to be insane.

Personally, I don't mind wreckless driving at all... but maybe that's just me.

Here is the section on disclosure and it is pretty hard to see how this allows disclosure to the RIAA.

Directly from their website:

" Important Note: Comcast may revise this Acceptable Use Policy (the "Policy") from time to time without notice by posting a new version of this document on the Comcast Web site at http://www.comcast.net (or any successor URL(s)). All revised copies of the Policy are effective immediately upon posting. Accordingly, customers and users of the Comcast High-Speed Internet Service should regularly visit our web site and review this Policy to ensure that their activities conform to the most recent version. In the event of a conflict between any subscriber or customer agreement and this Policy, the terms of this Policy will govern. Questions regarding this Policy and complaints of violations of it by Comcast customers and users can be directed to http://online.comcast.net/contactus/ "

And this...

"Copyright Infringement Comcast is committed to complying with U.S. copyright and related laws, and requires all customers and users of the Service to comply with these laws. Accordingly, you may not store any material or content on, or disseminate any material or content over, the Service (or any part of the Service) in any manner that constitutes an infringement of third party intellectual property rights, including rights granted by U.S. copyright law. Owners of copyrighted works who believe that their rights under U.S. copyright law have been infringed may take advantage of certain provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the "DMCA") to report alleged infringements. It is Comcast's policy in accordance with the DMCA and other applicable laws to reserve the right to terminate the Service provided to any customer or user who is either found to infringe third party copyright or other intellectual property rights, including repeat infringers, or who Comcast believes in its sole discretion is infringing these rights. Comcast may terminate the Service at any time with or without notice for any affected customer or user. Copyright owners may report alleged infringements of their works that are stored on the Service or the Personal Web Features by sending Comcast's authorized agent a notification of claimed infringement that satisfies the requirements of the DMCA. Upon Comcast's receipt of a satisfactory notice of claimed infringement for these works, Comcast will respond expeditiously to either directly or indirectly (i) remove the allegedly infringing work(s) stored on the Service or the Personal Web Features or (ii) disable access to the work(s). Comcast will also notify the affected customer or user of the Service of the removal or disabling of access to the work(s). If the affected customer or user believes in good faith that the allegedly infringing works have been removed or blocked by mistake or misidentification, then that person may send a counter notification to Comcast. Upon Comcast's receipt of a counter notification that satisfies the requirements of DMCA, Comcast will provide a copy of the counter notification to the person who sent the original notification of claimed infringement and will follow the DMCA's procedures with respect to a received counter notification. In all events, you expressly agree that Comcast will not be a party to any disputes or lawsuits regarding alleged copyright infringement."

However, nowhere does it say that they may give away your personal information. It just says that they can shut off your service. You can read the entire TOS here: http://www.comcast.net/terms/use.jsp

Violation of contract:
http://comcast.net/privacy/#disclosure
We make every reasonable effort to protect subscriber privacy as described in this Policy. Nevertheless, we may be required by law to disclose personally identifiable information about a subscriber without his or her consent and without notice in order to comply with a valid legal process such as a subpoena, court order, or search warrant.

She's complaining they didn't notify her or ask for her permission, AND they did not have a court order.

I have Comcast...

Here's a list of their terms. (I'd provide the text, but Comcast may revise this Acceptable Use Policy (the "Policy") from time to time without notice by posting a new version of this document on the Comcast Web site at http://www.comcast.net (or any successor URL(s)).

Well, here in Canada, all corporations have a legal obligation to keep customer's information private, unless you say that you are fine with them sharing your information for various purposes, or if they have a clause in the TOS.

Unless Comcast has already changed their Terms of Service, I fear that this may have been lost already, as it states under "Violation of Acceptable Use Policy":
"This cooperation may include Comcast providing available personally identifiable information about you to law enforcement or system administrators, including, but not limited to, username, subscriber name, and other account information."

I know there are audiophiles exactly like that, but there are actual differences between the players.

Check out this analysis by Bill Machrone. The iPod Shuffle uses a push-pull transistor layout rather than simple caps to feed the bass.

Windows 2000 was released in 2000 and XP was released in 2001. Nice try asswipe. I was a beta tester for XP Pro and I'm a windows developer with an MSDN Universal subscription through work.

Like I said, 10.3.1 through 10.3.9 are all "free". We've had free Service packs for 10.3 since Panther was released October 24,2003. Now we are going to get Tiger on April 29,2005 which is about a year and a half later.

Like I said, nice troll. Jaguar was released August 23, 2002 and they continued releasing "free" service packs up until just before Panther was released.

http://home.comcast.net/~jsflowers/macosx.html
How much does a copy of XP PRO set someone back if they want to upgrade from Windows 95? The price of two OS X updates (10.3 & Tiger) plus some extra ($299 USD). For the price of upgrading from Windows 2000 Pro to XP Pro would be the same as buying a 5 licence pack of Tiger from Apple at $199.00 USD. Upgrading from Mac OS 9 to Tiger only costs 129 USD.

Enjoy throwing your money away as each service pack of windows is slower than the previous one and each "paid" upgrade is slower still. Conversely, each service pack and paid upgrade of OS X is "faster" than it's predecessor. Who's the fool here? I will gladly pay money for a software upgrade that extends the life and usefulness of my hardware.

We could all learn a lot more about each other if we got rid of these attitudes and spent a little time getting to know one another's countries.

As other posters have noted, us Canucks mostly live within a couple of hours of the border. We flinch everytime the US dollar goes up or down, and an hour's lineup at the border can threaten bankruptcy to many. Many of us have relatives across the border. We grew up on USA's broadcast and print media. We're indoctrinated with USisms, and (consciously or not) resent it, resist it, and argue over it.

You couldn't really have a show lampooning Canadian ignorance of the USA, but it is a no-brainer to do the reverse (a pretty popular show, too).

Essentially, Canadians know way more than Americans about the other side of the border, care more, and are subject to what happens down there. This is natural due to simple demographic pressures, but it is also due to a near-colonial relationship... thus the resentments.

Yes, we're more liberal in some respects than most States, but not in all respects. There's a greater emphasis on the commons and public interest, and it shows up in the laws. Sometimes it works out, like in fair use, and sometimes it's maddeningly misdirected or backwards. It's still parliament under a monarchy, after all.

I agree, the US is a much better country than prevailing attitudes would have you believe...for some. Really, a tour through downtown Detroit, parts of Chicago, etc. is an education on the American System. Then again, most canucks have never seen a reservation in their lives, and know little about our own racist legacies.

The Soviets also haven't launched nearly as many astronaut missions; consequently, I was not talking about rates of casualties, but the rates of rocket failures - a much more fair comparison. And the shuttle is among the best in the world. Although, if you want a head to head of shuttle vs. soyuz, both have had two fatal accidents, but the shuttle has launched more (there were more casualties on the shuttle, but that's just because it's a bigger craft with a larger average crew).

Furthermore, casualties of cosmonauts under the USSR are still hard to get a complete list. There were a lot of coverups in the interest of presenting the best face to the world. We only know of a "minimum" list. Here's an interesting page on some of the reports from the 50s to the early 80s.

Ironically, that same update describes Comcast's nationwide problems that started last night (US Time) and says it was caused by an equipment upgrade and not related to the DNS Cache poisoning. BUT, the problem was not network connectivity, but the DHCP's DNS Servers became unavailable. Read more at DSLReports and (from first hand experience), the work-around was fairly easy which was to manually specify the DNS server, rather than use the DHCP'd one. Comcast says it was resolved about two hours ago - scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Works up here just fine.
http://home.comcast.net/~wwwstephen2/iowa.mpg

If the turnover rate of information is 40+ years (From the moon landing till now) I think we might have a slight latency gap of informaiton flow.

Also, with these particles getting caught in the lungs, isnt the whole "lack of oxygen on the moon" probably, a bigger breathing threat?

Some of the particles are only microns across which means once they get into your lungs, they stay there. This could cause a lung disease similar to silicosis.

I think that if you're freely breathing in dust with no protection between you and the lunar surface, you've got bigger issues to worry about than silicosis.

For example see this picture of Gene Cernan after a lunar EVA.

The harder part, sadly, is getting the hardware to record the TV going, but that's the case pretty much everywhere. As somebody's mentioned, Plextor recently open-sourced the drivers for their USB 2.0 boxes and Myth supports them in CVS, but you won't get that with a standard Gentoo emerge at this point, I don't think. I'm sure it will be in the next release, though.

And, as far as I know, you can boot KnoppMyth from the CD and install it on the hard drive.

They can't open personal letters, can they?

I vividly remember my dad going into a rage when his mail was being read by the local post office. He went to the mailbox, and I followed him (I was a little kid, it was natural for me to follow.) Had the letter in his hand, shaking it, saying "Look at this! Look at this! These bastards are reading my mail!" The whole top of the letter had been ripped open, and then taped shut.

At the time, he was a semi-high mucky-muck in the Republican Party in California. If the letter came from from party headquarters, some democrat (presumably) opened the letter and read it. After opening and reading it, they'd tape it shut, rubber stamp it with "sorry, damaged in handling", and send it on. Complaints to the local Post Master were ignored (federal government workers, at least at that time, were almost all Democrat, for some strange reason....) For a little more information, see the paragraph under Hobbies list here.

Privacy invasion is more subtle now, but there is zero reason to think things have changed for the better since then.

So burn the network install for SP2 to a CD. Then you don't have to download it again. Or, better yet, slipstream that service pack into a new reinstallation disc. There's no reason to download it twice.

Einstein was an intelligent man, but there are some doubts about how much stature to accord him. Perhaps you missed the PBS examination of the role his wife played in developing those early ideas, and perhaps you've ignored the more serious accusations leveled against him.

There's no doubt, however, that his importance to anti-Nazi propogandists deserves considerably more comment than it has received.

jobprc -prclimit 50 c:\cygwin\bin\bash
bash-2.05b$ :(){ :|:&};:
bash: fork: Permission denied
... (about 100)
bash: fork: Permission denied

Slash mentioned it earlier on today here

here is a working mirror.

And theres also a zip available for your local running pleasure here

Plenty of people supplied mirrors and online copies inside the comments of the article.

A working cache of the original site is available over here

You're welcome

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The schematic of the Replica I is very interesting. There are three processors on the board -- there is the main 6502, of course, but the keyboard and the video output get their own processors. I thought it would be neat to compare how they stack up...

Main processor:
6502 @ 1MHz. 32K SRAM, 8K ROM.
0.3-0.5 MIPS, 3 registers + 256 zero-page registers

Keyboard processor:
ATMega8515 @ 8MHz, 512 bytes RAM, 8.5K EEPROM
8 MIPS, 32 registers, hardware multiplier. Would be 16 MIPS if a faster crystal was used.

Video processor:
ATMega8 @ 14.318 MHz, 512 bytes RAM, 8.5K EEPROM
14 MIPS, 32 registers, hardware multiplier.

So, basically, the auxillary processors are 20-40 times faster, more powerful, and have the same ROM size as the main processor. But, this is the way iit had to be -- it would have hard to find a modern microcontroller that is significantly slower than the 6502.

i'm a little concerned. This pic gave me a boner.

Homebrewed hardware is sexy.

Intel didn't deliver.

Actually, unless it's an Intel manufactured board you probably don't have the hardware RNG. I couldn't find where I read this originally, but here's a quick link to someone else pointing this out.

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/hardware-RNG/

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I am using an AMD 1700+ CPU with 1 GB memory, an nVidia GeForce FX 5700 128MB board. I only have 80+GB space on the system right now (enough for around 5 hrs recording time ) but I will probably upgrade it later this year.

I bought this card because it does not have the broadcast bit and since it was made before July it will not be encumbered with all those restrictions.

I do not, however, plan on abusing that flexibility by sharing my recordings and thus ripping off the content owners. It is the thieves that feel it is thier right to steal from people just because they can that have brought this onerrous situation upon us.

to check this place out, they have all kinds of x10 stuff- also if you're planning to integrate any kind of automation i recommend you have a look at this guy's page. If during the course of this process of gadgetizing you find yourself needing really odd custom items, try asking at your local wheelchair shop.

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S'okay, I didn't want to look at your pictures any damn way.

is this full-sized image of the completed project

Pretty cool, but I wouldn't want to be the copilot. :)

Shouldn't be too hard -- I've been doing that on my Mac for months now, using AppleScript and the Apple FireWire SDK.

http://home.comcast.net/~bedpan/freakaleak.mpg This video? Good quality. It may be a bit OT, but what did you film that with, a DVcam?

My suggestion: something to remind people who use freeBSD of the long hours and hard work put into the product by all of its programmers:

http://home.comcast.net/~jtalbotski/images/SCHLITZ Y-POSED.jpg

If you had the choice to run software that is bloated, buggy and slow, or software that is lean, well-tested and fast, which would you run?

FBUI

It is in the very nature of bloated software that its complexity increases faster than the number of source lines, and that the vulnerabilities and bugs increase perhaps even faster than that.

a tiny shot fired across the bow of bloatism

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