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  1. Re:Detailed info on SPDY by Lennie · · Score: 1 · on Google Cuts Chrome Page Load Times In Half w/ SPDY

    If you are willing to listen to a bunch presentations in bad audio I would really suggest this:

    http://ietf80streaming.dnsalias.net/ietf80/ietf80-ch4-wed-am.mp3

    It includes a presentation about bufferbloat from Jim Getty and a presentation by Mike Belshe from Google SPDY, HTTP-concurrent connections, HTTP-pipelining is mentioned in both and SCTP is mentioned in the SPDY-presentation.

    As you will make out from the SPDY presentation is SCTP and HTTP-pipelining have deployment issues. But don't think SPDY does not have any. But from the bufferbloat presentation you will notice there are a lot of problems deploying IP on broadband and wifi anyway.

    As I thought Secure-by-default (HTTPS) is a actually design-goal of SPDY, which HTTP-pipelining and SCTP obviously don't address directly.

  2. Re:Bad interfaces. by rmerry72 · · Score: 1 · on Has Productivity Peaked?
    Have you ever actually tried communicating complex problems in a human language? It's much slower and more difficult than communicating in a more rigid language such as most programming uses. There are to many places where human language can be confussing or misunderstood even between humans let alone by some machine.

    Yes I have tried. In fact I am doing at home using my very own personal assistant. It works fairly well for a limited set of tasks, but it means I don't have to write scripts to do it.

    I can simply walk to any keyboard in my house and type "play 2 random Stargate on tv" and it happens. When I get the speech interface working better I'll just say it into a microphone. It adapts to my sentence structure as time progresses (ie, it "learns"). Yes it has bugs - lots of them - and is useful for a limited set of tasks, but its a good step forward in the direction our tools should be taking.

    It wasn't that hard to code and can only improve with time. My wife uses it quite a bit as do my kids. Much easier than teaching them Perl just to watch some Stargate.

  3. Re:Bad interfaces. by rmerry72 · · Score: 1 · on Has Productivity Peaked?
    What we need to do is stop making it okay to be computer illiterate. ... Why aren't we teaching basic skills like common Unix commands, bash, Perl, and SQL in schools?

    Because those interfaces are too hard for most people to learn and don't lend well to daily use. They are langauges for specific tasks on specific systems.

    Better to get our tools to understand us in our native langauge then convince the people to learn yet another paradym. As computing power increases, and our ability to program them improves, us IT guys should be able to make the tools more able to help people use them more effectively.

  4. Re:They might have a point by rmerry72 · · Score: 2, Informative · on DVD Format War Already Over?
    That catalogging program sounds interesting. What OS is it under? Interested in sharing?

    Its written in Java so (in theory) most platforms. I'm running the server on Windows 2000 Server, though I have other Windows clients and a Puppy Linux client attached.

    It's free and available from http://blade.dnsalias.net/ or as a torrent.

    The Blade Multimedia Catalog has some volume and archive management built in. This gives me a snapshot of my mounted volumes showing me capacities and free space that I have available, including the archive drives, plus indexes all my videos, music and photos and tracks which have been copied to the archive drives. Next version also integrates with BitTorrent clients such as Azureus.

    Email address on the site if you have a prob :-)

  5. Re:They might have a point by rmerry72 · · Score: 2, Informative · on DVD Format War Already Over?
    That catalogging program sounds interesting. What OS is it under? Interested in sharing?

    Its written in Java so (in theory) most platforms. I'm running the server on Windows 2000 Server, though I have other Windows clients and a Puppy Linux client attached.

    It's free and available from http://blade.dnsalias.net/ or as a torrent.

    The Blade Multimedia Catalog has some volume and archive management built in. This gives me a snapshot of my mounted volumes showing me capacities and free space that I have available, including the archive drives, plus indexes all my videos, music and photos and tracks which have been copied to the archive drives. Next version also integrates with BitTorrent clients such as Azureus.

    Email address on the site if you have a prob :-)

  6. Re:A lot of Japanese use PS2's as DVD players by rmerry72 · · Score: 1 · on How the PS3 Hit $600

    --> I watch movies, listen to music, and play games with my PS2 controller. It's pretty damn easy. And the remote control is smaller than a lot of TV contollers I've seen. PS2 is as close as we've seen to true

    To clarify: you watch DVD movies, listen to MP3 music and play PS2 games on your PS2. Right? (I don't own a PS2, so perhaps I'm missing a little functionality)

    We watch any movie (DVD, AVI, WMV, OGG), listen to any music, watch TV (mainly digitial, but was with analog), record TV (sorry - "time-shift"), rip DVDs (oops - "format-shift"), read and send email and surf the net from a single box hidden in a cupboard in the corner of the room. Its hooked to a monitor, 80cm TV and a projector (details here: http://blade.dnsalias.net/jsp/Wiki?TVRoom). As its hooked to my network that gives me 4,500 videos and 9,000 songs to choose from any time I feel like it.

    But in order to get all that flexibility and control the catch is we use a mouse and a keyboard or microphone. Imagine how big the remote would be? If all I wanted was to watch TV and play the odd DVD and game then sure a PS2 with a remote might fit the bill (ignoring cost). But I want more from my home entertainment system.

  7. Re:QEMU has no USB support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on VMware Opens Up API to Partners

    There probably will be in next release, if you're impatient just use the patch in

    http://gnome.dnsalias.net/patches/

  8. Link to revocation of licence rights by CdBee · · Score: 4, Informative · on CherryOS Goes Open Source

    " If you're reading this, anyone at MXS, I have been far more than fair. I have so far only ever asked you to comply with the GPL, and release your source code. But now you've pissed me off. Being that I need now contact a lawyer, I will not stop simply there. Being that I'm full copyright owner of my code, and can do as I please, including providing overriding licenses to those openly available.

    Since I view Maui X-Stream as in breach of the GPL under which my code is distributed, let this serve as public notice, that my code is no longer legally available for any reason to Maui X-Stream. Since they refuse to co-operate with the very lenient guidelines of the GPL, and refuse at all ends to comply with it. They can no longer claim any rights under the GPL license concerning my code. As such, my original rights of copyright apply, and I refuse any legal access to Maui X-Stream to my code (my code being specifically the G4/AltiVec emulation in generic, and in specific to x86 scalar, and SSE as implemented as a modification to the PearPC project)"

    Text copied from here

  9. Re:Can't encourage people to help enough... by rogabean · · Score: 3, Informative · on PearPC Trying to Sue CherryOS

    Just to add on a few extra's: PearPC community site direct link to the discussion there on CherryOS (LONG thread) The donation page for PearPC's legal fund

  10. Good. by daveschroeder · · Score: 5, Informative · on Michigan Diagnostic Software Case Big Win for GPL

    But remember, the GPL itself is not specifically "tested", per se, because GPL software developers assert them rights granted to them via copyright on an individual basis. This makes it a sometimes long and arduous process to assert rights and/or prove infringement, but hopefully more precedent will help.

    Since the provisions of the GPL have been upheld in a case in Germany as well, maybe PearPC will be able to more easily defend itself against CherryOS, which has blatantly taken GPL code, without release of source code or attribution, from PearPC and several other GPL projects:

    eWeek has a general overview of the situation:

    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775386,00.as p

    Below is a comprehensive collection of evidence, which runs the gamut from CherryOS including original PearPC graphics, extremely unique strings and error messages, debug code from PearPC, the same unique MAC address as PearPC's default network adapter, shared specific functionality, including bugs, and so on:

    http://www.ht-technology.com/cherryos-pearpc/cherr yos-pearpc.html

    http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/00 0501.html
    http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/00 0503.html
    http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/00 0504.html
    http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/00 0507.html

    http://starport.dnsalias.net/index.php?show=articl e&id=348

    http://forums.pearpc.net/viewtopic.php?p=16178#161 78
    http://www.tliquest.net/ryan/cherryos/
    http://dhost.info/kourge/en/projects/frauds/cherry os.php

    Additionally, PearPC project authors are already asserting their rights under the GPL:

    http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg _id=11116974

    And a general compilation of some of the evidence so far against CherryOS:

    http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg _id=11125509

  11. Arben Kryeziu Interview by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Finding the Pits In CherryOS

    Daniel Foesch, PearPC AltiVec developer, also just interviewed CherryOS "programmer" Arben Kryeziu by phone (prepare to amazed at how blatant this company is):
    Here

    Also, he has updated his code to thoroughly trounce any speed claim made by CherryOS:
    Here

  12. Arben Kryeziu Interview by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Finding the Pits In CherryOS

    Daniel Foesch, PearPC AltiVec developer, also just interviewed CherryOS "programmer" Arben Kryeziu by phone (prepare to amazed at how blatant this company is):
    Here

    Also, he has updated his code to thoroughly trounce any speed claim made by CherryOS:
    Here

  13. Tinfoil Goggles by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1 · on Sunlight in a Tube

    Keep hitting with the facts, Tom. These Greenhouse Deniers will run out of preprogrammed talking points pretty fast, as the ugly truth outnumbers us all. FWIW, research presented in England this past January indicate that the chances of the Gulf Stream shutting down by 2100 are 45%, and 75% by 2200. Freezing Britain, and plunging Scandanavia and elsewhere into arctic climate.

  14. Re:You've got to laugh... by Krach42 · · Score: 1 · on Finding the Pits In CherryOS

    http://starport.dnsalias.net/index.php?submit=comm ent&parent=356

    This is my analysis of the "speed" claims of MXS. Turns out PearPC AltiVec (once I actually fixed a number of bugs) is almost 15 times faster than CherryOS's.

    So, CherryOS can bite their "our code is faster." No, it's not, because it's my code, and a lot of it was turned off. :P

  15. Multiple Phishing websites by smharr4 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on "Phishing" Attacks to Increase

    My firewall was subjected to the now-often seen ssh attacks.. but this one was different, there were thousands of attempts.

    When I pasted the originating IP address into Firefox, a web-based interface for sending phishing emails was shown, complete with defalt 'paypal' text filled in.

    When I followed the link in the 'paypal' email (another IP address) i discovered that not only did the site contain a 'paypal' site, but also an 'ebay' and 'Wells Fargo' site too.

    I took a mirror of the offending pages, and I'm about to do a write-up... but I thought I'd post a quick precis of what I found, considering the relevance of the story.

  16. Re:a cute blue alternative by smharr4 · · Score: 1 · on Cheap DivX Solution For Your Entertainment Center

    Why would you want to run Debian when MPlayer works just fine under IRIX?

    My 360MHz R12K Octane2 is happy to play back most mpeg/divx/avi movies, and no Linux in sight.

    And yes, it's blue, with the obligatory blue LED.

  17. Geko 201 by markov_chain · · Score: 1 · on Two Ways To Use GPS With Linux

    I have the Geko 201. It's a superb little device. It speaks a Garmin protocol that Garmin published here. There are a number of utilities for Linux that implement this protocol; I use gpspoint. The only hurdle is the proprietary serial connector which costs a low double digits $$$; I hacked mine together with a glue gun from a couple of wires.

    For laptop-side work I use viking, a very nice GUI based program for managing waypoints and tracks. It's not so much useful for street navigation as it is for trips and geocaching; it can overlay recorded tracks over satellite photos, or create waypoints to be transferred to the GPS for a future trip.

  18. Re:Uh, maybe I should go on EBay. by smharr4 · · Score: 1 · on HAL 9000 on the Auction Block

    Tsk, that's nothing! I have one of a pair of Origin200's used to create the PowerPuff girls movie.

    Ok, so perhaps Wrath of Kahn does have more bragging rights...

  19. Re:Office File Formats by j-pimp · · Score: 1 · on Josh Ledgard On MS's Future Open Source Efforts

    I wrote that page in 1998-1999. If you would like to see a standards compliant page see: My current home page BTW if you look at that pages source, other than the marquee tag ("I have paid RMS many induldanges for that sin") and iFrames its pretty standards compliance. Now consider the web browser market back then Netscape 4 or IE 4. IE4 stood up pretty well to netscape 4. Perhaps one day I will change that stupid javascript to only yell at you if your running netscape 4 or a pre 3.0 version of IE or Netscape.

    I didn't even know what an ip address was when I wrote this. I soon bought myself a copy of mandrake 6.0 after that and after much meditation in my CRT shrine now rock the SuSE and FreeBSD at home. I type this at work on my iBook while my boss thinks I'm writing PHP code.

  20. Re:Take off your... by electroniceric · · Score: 1 · on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans
    OK, I apologize if I got a little shrill there, but I think my basic point is actually one with a fair bit of merit.

    You have rightfully pointed out that the New York Times ran a story on the subject. I'm just encouraging you to look hard at how stories of this nature get to be stories. Think, for example, of the Abu Ghraib stories, particularly the ones by Seymour Hersh about the alleged "Coppergreen" program. Obviously Sy Hersh talked to a couple angry folks at State and CIA, and they mouthed off about some program they think exists. Do you believe the New Yorker story? I am definitely left of center, and have a low opinion of Donald Rumsfeld, but I'd be hard pressed to call Sy Hersh's story corroborated just because it makes damning claims about Rummy.

    Given the Times' reputation as having high editorial standards, this means that some scenario like one of the following probably occurred in running the Oil-For-Food story you linked to:
    a) the editor believed that this story has merit and asked Judith Miller to write about it
    b) the editor was skeptical, but Judith Miller pushed for it
    c) neither the reporter nor the editor thought the story was really that important, but one or both felt they had to cover it in case it became big news.

    Now I don't work for the Times and I presume you don't, so we don't know which, if any of the above scenarios resulted in the Times covering the story. My point, as with Sy Hersh's allegations, is twofold. One is that any given story has a set of decisions behind it regarding why it ran, and people pushing for an angle, so it's rarely the unvarnished truth. The second is that while a story can quote a wide variety of people, the reporter may or may not have been able to directly verify the claims being made by any of the parties.

    If you read the story you sent me closely, I think it's a pretty good example of this phenomenon. There are quite a few quotes from high UN officials saying they think the program was poorly run and could well have had the alleged problems, but there's no single quote from any of them affirming the charges. There's also a long section detail how ripe the program was for corruption, but in the final reckoning, only Mr. Volcker and Mr. Chalabi known what's in the records, and they are disclosing them yet.

    The most direct evidence provided in the story is:
    The Hussein government demanded kickbacks on almost every contract it negotiated, beginning in 2000, according to documents from Iraqi ministries obtained by The New York Times this year.

    That seems pretty credible to me, but it's still not exactly on the record - the source of the documents is not named, and to my knowledge none of the companies allegedly blackmailed in this way spoke with the Times reporters.

    Look, in the long run, I'm not really disputing that the UN handled the program poorly, or even that there was corruption (given what bastards Hussein and his ministers were, I'd say all claims are pretty plausible). I'm just troubled at how the claims of a few people can bypass close scrutiny by getting a loud airing in the media. In the case of the Iraq war, I do honestly believe that key players in the Pentagon and CIA allowed themselves to be fooled by Ahmed Chalabi.

    I know this post is long, but let me add one more thought. The left has made a two-decade-long mistake in abdicating a clear-eyed geopolitical view in favor of shrill claims about how bad the baddies are, and it's a mistake the right (at least the neo-cons) unfortunately seems to have picked up. Iraq is indeed a linchpin to the Middle East ("the road to Jerusalem", etc), but it is simply too complicated to remedy with a quick in-and-out mission by troops with minimal training in necessities of occupation like language, customs, or local politics. We've botched this war because we rushed it, and that's due, at least in part, to believing unverified claims.

    If you're really interested (or even still awake), here's a blog post I wrote about this a while back.
  21. torrent link for .AVI by k3v0 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer Online

    hitchikers trailer

  22. Re:What a load of crap. by Famatra · · Score: 1 · on Moving Net Control From ICANN to Governments?

    I2P is another anonymous p2p project you should look at. The developers are on the IIP ( http://www.invisiblenet.net/iip/index.php ) network in #I2P. Here are some links to their content, and I believe their network can scale up to 5 million people (or so their documentation says).

    I2P Links:

    http://www.i2p.net
    http://wiki.invisiblenet.net/iip-wiki?I2P
    http://i2p.dnsalias.net/
    http://i2p.dnsalias.net/i2p/
    http://www.invisiblenet.net/i2p/

  23. Re:What a load of crap. by Famatra · · Score: 1 · on Moving Net Control From ICANN to Governments?

    I2P is another anonymous p2p project you should look at. The developers are on the IIP ( http://www.invisiblenet.net/iip/index.php ) network in #I2P. Here are some links to their content, and I believe their network can scale up to 5 million people (or so their documentation says).

    I2P Links:

    http://www.i2p.net
    http://wiki.invisiblenet.net/iip-wiki?I2P
    http://i2p.dnsalias.net/
    http://i2p.dnsalias.net/i2p/
    http://www.invisiblenet.net/i2p/

  24. No he means I2P by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Can P2P Filter Copyrighted Content?
    I2P, very interesting anonymous p2p application.

    http://wiki.invisiblenet.net/iip-wiki?I2P
    http://i2p.dnsalias.net/
    http://i2p.dnsalias.net/i2p/
    http://www.invisiblenet.net/i2p/

  25. No he means I2P by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Can P2P Filter Copyrighted Content?
    I2P, very interesting anonymous p2p application.

    http://wiki.invisiblenet.net/iip-wiki?I2P
    http://i2p.dnsalias.net/
    http://i2p.dnsalias.net/i2p/
    http://www.invisiblenet.net/i2p/

  26. W32Swen infection rate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative · on Microsoft "Swen" Worm Squiggles Into Sight

    Some guy tracked the hidden counter inside the virus and posted the numbers: http://smharr4.dnsalias.net/security/index.html Pretty neat.

  27. Re:That's a good thing! by KrispyKringle · · Score: 1 · on Europe, Free Speech, And The Internet
    If that's the case, then perhaps we should just abolish democracy, since most people are obviously too stupid to vote.

    You don't hear me complaining. ;)

  28. Re:Mirror mirror on the wall by KrispyKringle · · Score: 1 · on Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity
    mirror here

    please mirror if you can.

  29. Mirror by KrispyKringle · · Score: 2, Informative · on Build Your Own ECG
    I'm sure if this weren't costing bandwidth, someone'd called me a karma-whore. That said, I'm attempting to wget a mirror to here.

    If you can, please mirror my mirror. I'm sure a large number of slashdot readers have servers available they can put to good use.

  30. Re:Slashdotted before out of "The Mysterious futur by KrispyKringle · · Score: 5, Informative · on Pictures of Earth From Mars
    Seems like a good way to test my pII 400:

    mirror here.

    If you can, mirror it somewhere else, too.

  31. Re:M.U.L.E. had the best music ever by c64cryptoboy · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Salon on M.U.L.E Creator Dani Bunten
    I still play the M.U.L.E. theme music on my piano on a semi-regular basis.

    For great M.U.L.E. theme remixes, check out the MP3 collection at:

    http://www.eidolons-inn.de/mule/muledown.htm

    They even have an all vocal arrangement: http://eidolon.dnsalias.net/mulefiles/MayBeBop_Mul e.zip

  32. Re:Why do we need legislation? by fwankypoo · · Score: 1 · on Alternatives to the CBDTPA?

    Sorry, here's the correction: http://rain.dnsalias.net/leahy.html

  33. Re:Why do we need legislation? by fwankypoo · · Score: 0 · on Alternatives to the CBDTPA?

    I have written a letter, to Hollings and to all of my representatives (I'm from VT, so there are three) and I recieved a letter from Sen. Patrick Leahy as well.

    I WILL be thinking about this legislation when I vote next time, you can be sure of that.

  34. Digital is already comparable to film by jpm242 · · Score: 1 · on New Sensor Has Real Per-Pixel RGB Sensitivity

    I've been photographing with film for a few years now, and recently converted to digital. I had a Canon AE1 before and now own a Canon G1. The truth of the matter is, ultimately, the quality of a photograph is barely reliant on the camera, rather on the photographer him/herself.

    Unless of course you're working with an extremely bad camera, but the technology that's out there today is very much capable of producing kick-ass prints on 8x10 paper.

    I have a few shots that I find quite satisfying. Click here.

    JP.

  35. Just try... by jpm242 · · Score: 1 · on Move Over Lego, Enter Atollo

    making robots like this using 2 pieces. LEGO rules.

    JP.