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It's not even close. This makes Milkdrop look like a joke; the video's awesome

furthermore, his previous work is basically the foundation for much of modern audio visualization programs (iTunes; WinAmp, WinMediaPlayer, various xmmc plugins). this software is likely to further influence the field, given it's unique qualities. there has been some experimentation with 3d visualizations and various filters and effects, but this is pretty much state of the art. it's running in HD, and quite fluidly. it's realtime interactive, and it should be pretty accessible being in ROM and using a wireless analouge controller. 4 people can control the thing simultaneously using a variety of control inputs (buttons, sticks,.. I don't know the exact mappings). impressively, this thing is under a half meg of code. check out the video's, which are compressed, low resolution, low framerate relative to the actual realtime xbox360 HD output...

My friend did this a few times on a very large iTunes collection, and decided to write a perl script to fix it... I'll shamelessly promote it on here, cause well, its not my script. It's called iTunes Dupeblaster Source is available as well, so you can modify to suit your needs.

(....teach me to typo a /. post... Take 2...) http://www.dyndns.org/news/releases/archives/2005/ 04/587.html

If you use something like dyndns.org to run a personal server from your home even w/ a dynamic IP address, you want a low TTL (mine is 5 min) so that, when your IP address changes, you've only (theoretically) got 5 minutes of downtime.

Might I also reccomend Microsoft Antispyware? I wrote a review and I think it's wonderful. I was pretty shocked to find something with "Microsoft" on it that also seemed to work, but in my honest opinion (note: I'm something of an amature) it seems to work quite nicely. It caught things that Spybot, Ad-aware and McAfee didn't catch. And removed them in such a manner that they didn't "regenerate" (as MS-AS put it) as most spyware does. Seriously a nice piece of software.

This .torrent is not correctly made. The tracker URL points to the direct download link you posted earlier (which is dead by now)
Read this

XBench running in OS X 10.3 in CherryOS on my Thinkpad T42 1.7Ghz (2MB Cache)
http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xhtml?doc1=101 262&doc2=1&setCookie=true

and then look at
http://minghong.dyndns.org:8080/OpenWiki/?NoIEInfo rmationBar
which has great IE InfoBar spoofing, including lots of localizations!

It's like designing web pages from a command line.

I design web pages from a command line, you insensitive clod!

In fact, I'm working on a web page for my robotics team (that's not the new site yet; you can see that here if my computer is on--take a look!), and I use vim to write it. A Perl script plugs the content into Template Toolkit, and it's formatted with CSS.

Designing pages with a GUI is horrible; designing them by hand with an editor that simply provides extra efficiency typing tags and inserting common sets of tags and attributes is good.

Just install Password Safe http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ and generate a new, random 20 character password (Hash That!) for each login. If you don't like Windows-only software, there's Password Gorilla http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/Gorilla/ (runs everywhere), My Password Safe http://www.semanticgap.com/myps/ (Linux/Qt) or pwsafe http://nsd.dyndns.org/pwsafe/ (command line).

Don't forget to use a good, long passphrase as the database's Master Password.

There are numerous fan pages for her, which is truly remarkable for a person who barely got any mention before her death from cancer in her early 60s. Of course, now she's dead and can't enjoy her fame, she's a celebrity. There was even a play written with her as the focus.

I think it fair to say that electronic music has been born and reborn many times, but has yet to really reach the heights the true visionaries expected of it. Like NASA, electronic music has been mostly promise and far too little creative genius.

Yes, I am one of the thirty-odd writers who collectively make up "Travis Tea," a pseudonym (and a pun -- say it outloud). :-)

Here is some background on this wacky collaborative sting project that we cobbled together.

Several months ago, in response to a claim by a certain publisher that writers working in the SF/F genre believe it "does not require believable storylines" or "does not need believable every-day characters," genre writer James D. Macdonald got approximately 40 mostly science fiction and fantasy writers to cobble together an intentionally horrendous monstrosity of a novel (read it here as an FTP download in RTF and PDF format) and then submit it, in order to display the less than discriminating tastes of that same certain publisher in regard to the kind of work they accept for publication.

Earlier last week, the sting has been revealed, the publisher fell for it (retracting the acceptance as soon as news spread, of course), and I proudly own up to having authored Chapter 13 of ATLANTA NIGHTS by Travis Tea .

Here's a bit of an excerpt from my chapter:

"Actually, I think I am ready to order now," said Isadore, firmly ignoring it all, flipping back his red forelocks out of his face and beyond the back to where the bulk of the abundant and suggestive ponytail rested against his wide strongly utterly virile back -- a back that could do the beast with two backs so well, when one of the two backs came into question and under scrutiny (but the other back of course depended on the woman writhing with him, under him and on top of him ah, the beasts they would make!).

Yes, you can even buy your own copy at Lulu.com to read for gut-wrenching hilarity and educational purposes (lessons on how not to write can be derived from the perusal of this book). Here is the stellar lineup of blurbs from the back cover. And that's just the ones that fit the back cover. There are twice as many additional blurbs inside the front matter of the book. Some of them are truly classic....

I predict this will replace THE EYE OF ARGON as midnight panel reading material at science fiction conventions. This book, is purely and genuinely bad. So bad that it's great. In all seriousness, The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest should give it a special achievement prize. :-)

For more detailed coverage, including a list of contributors, of the ATLANTA NIGHTS atrocity -- or should we say, travesty -- see the Cold Ground blog , and Tor Books editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden's Making Light . ..

Also, looks like the LA Times has picked up the story .

:-)

Vera Nazarian

you can also use DynDNS if you don't want to get a static ip. I've been using a free account with them for a little over a year now, and have had no problems at all, They also offer a number of premium services that seem to be a little on the expensive side but still quite reasonable.

I posted this a few days ago on my AQFL Web site:

Death_Knight's thread (screen shots [nice ion canon] and comments) mentions a FilePlanet (account required -- free or subscription) video file link (87 MB) with Gnomevasion in World of Warcraft. Here is the video file description: "What happens when you take 300 players, throw in teamwork, voice communication, a server crash, and one of the greatest guilds of all time? You get Gnomevasion! In this video members of Sturmgrenadier form up on an alternate server in WoW when their home of Bleeding Hollow goes down. Hilarity ensues when each and every member wreaks chaos on an unsuspecting server with pink-haired pig-tailed gnomes! Download this video and witness the true power of a Gnomevasion."

Non-FilePlanet sites: #1, #2, and #3 (BitTorrent files).

Funny music video! It is two minutes and 20 seconds. Check it out!

You can get it working with DishNetwork. You'll need to get an IRC blaster and a second customized version of lirc running to control it. This is required with either digital cable or satellite tv. Here are the links:
http://www.irblaster.info/
http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/M ythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html

I currently have my Myth box connected to analog cable and it works fine. I plan on moving down to the living and hooking it up to my dish network receiver pretty soon. The quality of the show is only as good as your input. Good luck!

Where's the Open Source games? Everyone knows Worldforge is infinitely better than Everquest 2 AND World of Warcraft combined.

It's only an amount of time when such classic Worldforge spinoffs like Archipelago
deserve their own respect from the realm of sequential graphic media.

After all, with WoW-beating graphics like these, surely there's a 'raft' (pun intended) of opportunities for quality comic art.

Where's the Open Source games? Everyone knows Worldforge is infinitely better than Everquest 2 AND World of Warcraft combined.

It's only an amount of time when such classic Worldforge spinoffs like Archipelago
deserve their own respect from the realm of sequential graphic media.

After all, with WoW-beating graphics like these, surely there's a 'raft' (pun intended) of opportunities for quality comic art.

The Last Question

Really, it sounds more like a question about a change to their TOS, actually.

This is easily solved by services like DynDNS. But it's still in violation of the TOS.

I've been using it for sometime and never had a problem with them, however. But then, all I have is a crappy webpage I rarely update. Other than that, it's primarily so I can map my domain over to my DHCP addy and get to my mailserver (I don't use their mail services -- rather host my own thanks), move stuff around with scp or admin things with ssh remotely.

...until the spam trojans setup redundant bittorrent seeders and leechers?

It seems to me that the most obvious solution to this is to overwhelm the ignorant public with infections that the RIAA red flags as compromised intellectual property. Once people who are unaware that such silly laws exist actually become affected by it will anything begin to change. What if the next major exploit revealed in Windows NT-class operating systems were to setup a exactly the kind of thing seen here? Courts would be overrun with baseless cases and the Supreme Court just might make a real effort to get rid of this annoying leglislation known as the DMCA.

And you think you have it bad? How about a headless laptop?

Okay, then why have I -never- experienced this bug under IE or Netscape? I only see it under Mozilla/Firefox.

If it works in IE, it should work in Firefox.

I've also been seeing a new one pop up lately.

Bug One

Bug Two

Download special edition knoppix here!

It might be in your bochs. If it works on OS/2, it's got to work for you!

Don't forget to save an image before you blow it up.

... and never will be. UML assumes that everything can be reduced to boxes. There are things I can say in code, that I would like to have another notation for. If UML is truly "unified," show me the UML (sequence diagrams, in this case) for the following code (explained here):

(defun make-load-form-with-fixup (obj)
(multiple-value-bind (alloc init) (make-load-form-saving-slots obj)
(setf init (nsubst 'o obj init))
`((lambda (o) ,init o) ,alloc )))

Better yet, show me the sequence diagram for this function's caller. Or, since Lisp is supposedly dead, how about this:

sub sort_versions {
return map { $_[0] }
sort { $a[1] <=> $b[1] }
map { [ $_, split /-\./ ] } @_;
}

Want an example in a more contemporary language? Then just draw a UML diagram of, say, Spirit , for instance. The control flow here simply cannot be reduced to boxes. UML can't deal with RAII in C++, or finalize-time operations in Java. UML is fundamentally a decent whiteboard tool for some of the less complicated and less expressive languages. That's all it is. (Except for use cases, which have somewhat more broad applicability.)

The solution is to to use a dynamic dns service like www.dyndns.org. Purchase the custom dns service and you will be able to control everything with your domain.

I believe there's a way around it. Just use port 2525 for example. DynDns has a service like that.

Performance Limits on Chemical Computation.

The Last Question

A brilliant story, and thank you for reminding me of it. :)

I've got a video that says otherwise.

I can't find a working link to the video offsite because, according to Google, there is only one copy of the clip on the planet and every Geocities page links to it, so it's been removed.

Here. This one is on my computer. The web server's on and off - if you can't get to it, it means I've booted into Windows to do something else.

Why am I getting spam to my Backup MX domain through mx2.mailhop.org when my primary MX is up?

Many spammers will use the lowest priority MX for sending spam to avoid DNSBL and other message checks. Many mail servers/spam filtering packages have a setting to make them aware of the "authorized" relay so they can strip it out before doing their checks. Other spam filtering packages, such as SpamAssassin, perform their checks on all Received headers, and thus aren't affected by this type of tactic. There's really nothing we can do to stop this - by the very nature of a backup MX service we must accept and relay all mail to you. You need to work out a solution to this problem with your mail server/spam filtering software's settings.

I find Paranoia XP's development process, namely the use of a Wiki to develop the rough draft, a lot more intriguing than "We used the following word processor.."

For free-as-in-beer games out there, Active Exploits is a good diceless game, and their more traditional Impresa system is good for people who are easily frightened by games that take away the dice.

Another GM in our RPG group is currently using JAGS, which I find to be a horrible system but it seems to appeal to GURPS masochists.

Quite personally, I prefer spending $50 a year on a Custom DNS and my own private domain than putting my stuff on anyone elses server.
What I do is this:
1) Go get a Custom DNS from DynDNS.org.
2) Go get a Domain Name from a selection of many different registrars.
3) Go set up a box running Gentoo, Debian, SuSE, or FreeBSD, and install Apache.
And then boom. I'm the master of my own domain, for the low-low price of $50 per year. thats an average of $4 a month for hosting, totally within your control.
I can even give subdomains to the people I like, considering if I have enough bandiwdth. But that isn't a problem considering many Canadian ISP's offer over 800kbps upstream.

modprobe amd76x_pm
echo "3" > /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/0000\:00\:00.0/lazy_idle

http://chris-low.dyndns.org:6969/torrents/PauschAc ademicsFieldGuideToEA.pdf.torrent?ADAA8F351E795039 6A6FC2B3D7AF1C785533D3BF

There are still quite a few hams who homebrew there own radio equipment.

Here is a good site about some hams who homebrew their own wireless LAN hardware, antennas, amplifiers and everything. They also document lots of other neat projects, like cellphone-to-ham converters and the van Eck stuff.

They even have open source microwave path analysis CGI utilities.

I'd still be using 2.x right now if it had support for OGG media, but since it was built into 3.x nobody took the time to make a plugin.

1. Absolutely, under all circumstances, mandatorily demand a Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail. This applies not only to touch-screen technology, but to all voting machines. NO EXCEPTIONS, THIS MEANS YOU.
2. Having accomplished #1, Condorcet voting would be nice, maybe with Approval voting while we wait for everyone to get used to the idea. The Republicrat duopoly needs to end, and though I disagree with the Libertarians on economic issues, it'd be nice to see some real dialog rather than thumping gay abortionist Bibles for the imminently threatening Iraqi children.
3. Abolish the Electoral College and directly elect the President. This is about equally as important as #2. Land doesn't vote, so why should one land's people get more voting power than another's?

A while back, I wrote this rant on #2, and just last week I wrote this letter to my state legislators regarding #1 and #2. Please, please, PLEASE do the same to your own legislators. (Remember, don't bother so much with your federal legislators. For the forseeable future, the Electoral College will stay in place, and that means each individual state decides its own standards on audit logging and election methods. Only your state legislators currently have any say with regard to #1 and #2, so the rise of Condorcet/Approval will have to be a state-by-state thing.)

1. Absolutely, under all circumstances, mandatorily demand a Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail. This applies not only to touch-screen technology, but to all voting machines. NO EXCEPTIONS, THIS MEANS YOU.
2. Having accomplished #1, Condorcet voting would be nice, maybe with Approval voting while we wait for everyone to get used to the idea. The Republicrat duopoly needs to end, and though I disagree with the Libertarians on economic issues, it'd be nice to see some real dialog rather than thumping gay abortionist Bibles for the imminently threatening Iraqi children.
3. Abolish the Electoral College and directly elect the President. This is about equally as important as #2. Land doesn't vote, so why should one land's people get more voting power than another's?

A while back, I wrote this rant on #2, and just last week I wrote this letter to my state legislators regarding #1 and #2. Please, please, PLEASE do the same to your own legislators. (Remember, don't bother so much with your federal legislators. For the forseeable future, the Electoral College will stay in place, and that means each individual state decides its own standards on audit logging and election methods. Only your state legislators currently have any say with regard to #1 and #2, so the rise of Condorcet/Approval will have to be a state-by-state thing.)

I've had great experience with dyndns.org -- with both dynamic and static IPs. Their web control panel is functional and fast, their support is pretty good, and they automatically lock your domain for you. (Their part of the OpenSRS system, so I don't know if everybody in OpenSRS gets the same feature or not)

It's too primitive to even bother looking at, but it's at least a proof I'm not talking out of my ass :p

Bet you thought you were kidding.

Bet you thought you were kidding.

Alternatively, I just hold ctrl and scroll the mouse up, then down really quick.

Otherwise, you get this: click

For reference, this is my Palm Zire 71 hard case in my hand. (I am not the hand model for the picture of the XACT, so YMMV.)

A paintball gun tends to get their attention. Personally I'd love to build a herf gun. I always wanted to lay into the car of one of those jackasses that would stop at the stoplight outside my apartment complex and crank up the bass. I swear I could see my alarm clock shaking. A herf gun would have made all the difference.

I can totally recommend Blender, as it not only has a good 3d-engine for animation, it also has a complete scripting environment, making it possible to create user-interaction schemes.

I wanted to post additional Blender Tutorial links:

i found a collection of Tutorials, the Blender Classroom Tutorial Book or a list of Blender Tutorials found on the net.

or, as a PDF: OilAgeIsOver.pdf

Good read.

Eh, not many stalkers chase the ones with their noses in sci-fi books all the time with geek t-shirts on, either!

Heck that is my favorite kind of prey^H^H^H^H ummmm nevermind. :-)

I used dyndns.org because they have a very slick automated web interface and have been quite responsive. They also are pretty cheap ($15 for a year registration) but that wasn't what tipped the scales in their favor for me.

Via the interface you can change all three contact's info. They also host Dynamic DNS entries for free so that a hostname can be auto-updated to point to a dynamic IP (cable internet etc). My roommate used this for a few years before needing more bandwidth and moving his server off our cable net connection to a hosting service.

Have fun with you registrar's tech support though.

jason