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Lots of people use my app Andromeda on home-bound servers so that they can play their collection from work. Also handy is dynamic-IP to pseudo domamin service like DynDNS.

But generally because of bandwidth considerations, most want to keep their sites private anyway.

"The Achilles Heel of Bittorrent is that it can only transfer one file at a time, and the only way to download multiple files is to open multiple instances of Bittorrent, which drains upload speed, a precious commodity among home broadband users. Some work [kefro.st] is being done towards this goal but it currently deals with upload rates for individual downloads, and doesn't manage multiple downloads."

Try BT++ or Burst! both of which, I believe, can do all of this.

size 7 1/2 please!

however, if you have ever tried to get joe-average-desktop-user to set up gpg or pgp then you know that something has to be made easier! even the point-n-click solutions like winpt or mac-gpg (my fave!) make my dad's head ring. here's an example: i work with a guy who went to work for the nsa (that's right, super-spook central). about a year ago i asked him where his public key was so that i could send him some sensitive work-type stuff. his response? "i don't have any of that. it's too confusing". this is a guy who the nsa chose to hire!

something has to be simplified if mom-n-pop (and nsa hires) are going to use crypto.

(oh, and this is my public key)

OK, I've whipped up a simple example: http://glow.dyndns.org/letterforms.gif. I've taken a well-known slogan and blurred it beyond recognition. See if you can still tell what it used to say.

The winner noted:

I used 17 Dual P4 1800Mhz computers. (Without the permission of the CS Dept... sorry guys no time to get permission..)

He also probably wrote the least amount of code of anyone. (A link to his source is posted in the same forum.)

To be fair, he also took an approach that my team wrote off as unachievable when it obviously wasn't unachievable--brute force search of the solution space. (Specfically, brute force search of the "whole" solution space reduced by restricting solutons to only change control settings on pixel crossings [and certain quantized speed changes].)

Meanwhile my team's solver got beat by some people who just interactively solved the courses with a human driver. Embarassing.

Here's her picture and mine.

Unfortunately, she's not longer single. When she was, I was still in a relationship. Despite the obvious sexual tension, we've both been faithful to our significant others. In the end, it all worked out though. Her boyfriend is now my boss and good friend!

-Lucas

Here's her picture and mine.

Unfortunately, she's not longer single. When she was, I was still in a relationship. Despite the obvious sexual tension, we've both been faithful to our significant others. In the end, it all worked out though. Her boyfriend is now my boss and good friend!

-Lucas

GPS jammer pictures

'nuff said.

I got an error on my Win2K machine this morning while I was running DXDiag:

"Your sound hardware cannot play sounds.
Contact your vendor for more information."


Here's the screenshot for those who are curious.

Ahh... I found a better archive.

There is no reason for a consumer level access user to need to run their own mailserver, and in fact almost none do (on purpose).

Speak for yourself. I've got a cheap $35/mo. consumer-level DSL connection through SBC (it's down to $30/mo. now) with a dynamic IP. I would like to be able to create an arbitrary number of mail accounts (for family and for spam protection; by running ``useradd -m username''; no hassles, please) and run my own web server, with my own plugins (eRuby, etc.) and with as much storage as I am willing to put on the machine, with root access on the box so I can install whatever I feel like using, while avoiding any recurring monthly fees with any ISP.

I use Dyndns to handle the DNS mapping for my domain to whatever my IP happens to be (it changes fewer than 3 times a year anyway). I picked up a $29 Pentium II machine from a discount electronics store and put Debian stable on it over a weekend. A script (ddclient) does automatic updates with Dyndns when the IP changes. It serves as my firewall/NAT server, my mail server, and my web server. I have Squirrelmail running on the thing with apache-ssl to provide secure web access to my account. I don't have to use Hotmail or Yahoo to have web access to my e-mail, with their tacky advertisements at the bottom of the messages that are sent from them. I am running uw-imapd with stunnel to allow remote IMAP access to e-mail for my family members who want it, but I usually just SSH in and use mutt.

It runs cron-apt and is configured to do automatic security updates from Debian's security apt repository. SBC's DSL connectivity, at least in my area, is outstanding. I don't recall ever having downtime. I like being able to handle my own domain and to have no middlemen messing with the e-mail messages sent to me. I like not having to pay recurring fees to ISP's to provide servers; I can do it all from my own $29 server for no additional charge.

In fact, I would not be surprised if there were a market for $49 boxen that could easily be set up on peoples' DSL lines to do exactly why my own custom-built box does (firewall/NAT, mail, web) with no recurring ISP fees.

Crikey, are you sure? Have you checked again recently?

Here in the UK, where we usually complain about the high price of everything compared to the bargains in the USA, you can get all-inclusive 128K ISDN for less than 50 (US$75) per month. 25 quid a month for ISDN line rental (includes regular telephone line rental) and 25-35 quid for a reasonable inclusive-hours ISDN plan (I recommend SurfAnyTime who are a bit pricier than the others but have multiple redundant freephone numbers and the support is second to none).

Townies, governments and companies all seem to have forgotten about ISDN, to the point that it is very difficult to spread the word:

IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE BROADBAND, ISDN IS PROBABLY AVAILABLE AND WILL DO MOST OF WHAT YOU WANT

Pseudo always-on: less than 2 seconds to connect

Low ping times, in the region of 40-80ms

Decent bandwidth, 128kbps is half the speed of entry-level broadband- more than sufficient for all but the most hardened downloaders.

Usually less than twice the cost of broadband

You can make telephone calls at the same time as connecting to the Internet (although the speed drops to 64k- you can use Windows/Linux or router built-in Bandwidth On Demand feature to control this).

Admittedly what I'm basically saying is that ISDN is half the speed for twice the cost, but- IT IS AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY EVERYWHERE, IT'S ALMOST AS GOOD AS BROADBAND, IT'S WAY BETTER THAN A MODEM AND IT WORKS.

ISDN will even do fancy stuff like remote ringback connections. I've got mine set up so that when I ring my 3rd number from my mobile phone (with ISDN you get 3 telephone numbers), it automatically dials up and updates its dynamic DNS so I can VNC/FTP in to my home machine from anywhere in the world.

Try the Burst! client. It is great.

Marco--

I know a bit about this. Basically, the idea is to correlate and overlap information from several individual exposures, while "dewarping" the variations caused by the target rotating during the scan. David Hilvert has written an open source tool that implements some basic methods for doing this kind of work; it's called ALE. Google for "Superresolution" for further information; everything that goes from the temporal domain to the spatial domain ends up using techniques like this.

--Dan

I saw a whole truckload of them shortly after they came out. I remember thinking they were really cool at the time. ('course I was about 12 at the time).

I think I've also seen *the* Back to the Future DeLorean on the back lot during the Universal Studios tour. It was parked in a parking lot with a lot of other cars near what I suppose is their automotive shop. The tour guide never mentioned it, so that makes me think it may have even been the real thing.

At the risk of killing my DSL connection, here is a photo I took of it. We were almost past it before I got my camera out and pointed in the right direction :-(

Click the "MORE" hyperlink from the URL below, need I say more?
http://zmaster.dyndns.org/fm_radio/

Someone a while back said someone should write a bot that gave a list of filenames, and linked them to garbage, to plug up the DMCA and RIAA enforcement bots.

And here's proof of that.

Look halfway down the page for The Version 6 Unix kernel (1976), which links to code containing the comment shown.

That pretty much means there's zero trade-secret protection on it.

And here's proof of that.

Look halfway down the page for The Version 6 Unix kernel (1976), which links to code containing the comment shown.

That pretty much means there's zero trade-secret protection on it.

Every single app that I would want to run is already available and runs under Linux natively. For example:

mozilla, neverwinter nights(w/ expansion pack), gcc, gdb, make, gnuplot, bc, gimp, icebreaker, valgrind, electric fence, Crossfire, LyX, angband, Nethack (falcon's eye), vim, XFree86, pekwm and netpbm.

There are few apps that I run that are not on that list. Really, if you think about it. On any computer system the top 90% of the apps you run could probably be counted on one hand.

But I'm one of those unusual people who has his laser printer working in Linux and only has a windows box to test the software I write. I compile the windows version on Linux of course. (using these scripts to build the cross compiler).

Schematics and technical info here:

Cellular Phone Jammers

No actual person would use them, but the DMCA bots would see a jackpot. Then, when actual people followed up, they'd find absolutely nothing wrong. That would gum them up pretty badly.

So who wants to spearhead this?

Whoohoo!!

Count me in! I'm already in the process of making a totally self-contained PHP script that will generate a bunch of random crap for the bots to find.

http://cbservices.dyndns.org/Anti-DMCA/anti-dmca.h tml

Right now this page is just a placeholder, but I hope within a couple of days I can have this program finished in my spare time.
I'm hoping to get it so that every couple of days it automatically connects to my server to get the latest list of *ahem* questionable filenames, so that people can submit new ideas regularly, but people don't have to keep downloading new versions of the script.

I guess that'll require some funky stuff in my database, too. :)

Let's see some pictures, shall we?

Windows 2000 Professional
Here's my network in Win2K SP4. Mapped drives are marked neatly as "share at machine." Machine names show in My Network Places, with the comment showing to the right in details view.

Windows XP Professional
This is my network in WinXP SP1. Microsoft got rid of the nice mapped drive names of Win2K, so now it uses the longer and less useful "share at comment (machine)." That's one thing they shouldn't have changed IMHO. The Entire Network part of My Network Places hasn't changed at all; however, the root of My Network Places shows all the shares on the network in alphabetical order, which I think is stupid and disorganized. Worse, it still uses "share at comment (machine)" for the listing so it's even harder to follow, especially on a large network.

Let's see some pictures, shall we?

Windows 2000 Professional
Here's my network in Win2K SP4. Mapped drives are marked neatly as "share at machine." Machine names show in My Network Places, with the comment showing to the right in details view.

Windows XP Professional
This is my network in WinXP SP1. Microsoft got rid of the nice mapped drive names of Win2K, so now it uses the longer and less useful "share at comment (machine)." That's one thing they shouldn't have changed IMHO. The Entire Network part of My Network Places hasn't changed at all; however, the root of My Network Places shows all the shares on the network in alphabetical order, which I think is stupid and disorganized. Worse, it still uses "share at comment (machine)" for the listing so it's even harder to follow, especially on a large network.

Let's see some pictures, shall we?

Windows 2000 Professional
Here's my network in Win2K SP4. Mapped drives are marked neatly as "share at machine." Machine names show in My Network Places, with the comment showing to the right in details view.

Windows XP Professional
This is my network in WinXP SP1. Microsoft got rid of the nice mapped drive names of Win2K, so now it uses the longer and less useful "share at comment (machine)." That's one thing they shouldn't have changed IMHO. The Entire Network part of My Network Places hasn't changed at all; however, the root of My Network Places shows all the shares on the network in alphabetical order, which I think is stupid and disorganized. Worse, it still uses "share at comment (machine)" for the listing so it's even harder to follow, especially on a large network.

Buy the USA version, the build a frequency converter to receive the "good" frequencies.

Listening in on cellular phone calls is old hat.

It is more fun to talk over people's cell phones!!

I've always been amazed by the 24 and 48 hour game contests (or any short programming contest). It's been a long time since I looked at that scene, but I remember some goodies back in my Apple ][ through Apple ][gs days. A quick google search turned up a couple interesting links: A 48 journal developing a Godzilla game and These entries in another contest (complete with ratings and descriptions).

I'm sure someone here knows the "big site" for these contests and I'd certainly like to hear about it.

AB

DynDns

Its only Microsoft style innovation we're talking here (in future referred to as Microvation).

The way you do things is take an existing product or range of products, copy 'em, brand 'em and market 'em to hell.

e.g.

Take NEC's personal robot and call it a Robie.

Take the common idea of controlling another device with a PDA and make it sound like a pocket PC microvation

And of course, you really need an advanced research division to come up with a "a program that acted like a magnifying glass for Web sites"

I was going to have a dig at the "The system uses compression technology to turn photos into data and encryption techniques to make forgery nearly impossible"...but hey - its just waaaaaaaay to easy.

Bottom line. Nothing new to see here.

-Sould

But Doctor Who is a web comic. When did they make a sci-fi show out of it?

The number of IP addresses IP6 will allow is truely astronomical, 6.65x10^23 addresses for every square meter of the Earth's surface. More than enough for everyone to have an internet controlled Etch-A-Sketch

quake4.tar.gz

here is an easier link

Good points, but I would prefer a combination of SquirrelMail (or SSH / PuTTY & Mutt) and a dynamic DNS domain over a "freemail provider". :)

These lifters just ionize air and direct the ions downwards with an electric field, generating upwards thrust. There's no anti-gravity involved at all. It's the same technology used in The Sharper Image's Ionic Breeze air purifiers.

My friend and I did some measurements of this effect, and with 23,000 Volts, 700 microamps, and 36 centimeters of foil and wire, it's possible to generate 2.7 grams of force. With balsa wood, it's certainly possible to build a support weighing less than that, and, voila! You have flight. Nothing magic.

For more details on our measurements, check out http://peng.dyndns.org/~dan/writings/phy210.pdf .

See an article on DeveloperWorksabout that at h for doing that on the server side.

I'm also using an home grown Python script based on that principle for my homepage. I'm actually in the process of rewriting it to use the more robust HTML and XHMTL parsing of the libxml2 python bindings, and to have even cooler stuff such as Xpath and XSLT under the control of your embedded python scripts.

You can also do the scripting on the client side. The Win32 version ActiveState Python has support for doing that - if you're on that sort of pseudo OS... ;-)

I recommend you go and GET bittorrent. On Windows, I recommend the Burst! client.

Not a bad post. So why the "Lunix," straight from the manual?

DynDNS
HammerNode
WhyI
No-IP
FreeDNS
CJB.net
DDT
DDNS
Continuum
dnsQ
dyn.ee
dyndsl

Just a few... There are lots more, both free and not.

Get ahold of two high power (40+ Watt) Motorola 800 MHz 2-way radios. Program the frequency of one of the radios about 1000 Hz higher or lower than the other radio. Example: 820.000 MHz & 820.001 MHz. Get two spaced, directional antennas (one for each radio) and point them at your target. The non-linear mixing in the sound system's unshielded semiconductors or audio/power lines will result in a constant 1000 Hz tone coming over their stereo, causing them to turn it down.

You can practice using two FRS (family) radios transmitting on the same channel. Put them near your monitor/TV or any speakers and you'll hear a squeal.

Other ideas include HERF guns

I wrote something kind of similar that streams audio remotely by way of a FM tuner card I have installed in my FreeBSD server at home (ADSL 1.2 Mbps down / 225 upstream). Let the slashdotting begin!

http://zmaster.dyndns.org/fm_radio/

You control the frequency on the FM tuner card remotely, unless of course someone else is listening and changes the channel. The 'stereo' and 'signal' indicators on the radio actually work and are queried from the FM tuner card itself. If anyone knows of a similar project (I haven't seen any so far) please let me know!

I wrote the PHP / Java applet so that my father (an avid HAM radio / RFI hunter) can listen to bootleg radio stations broadcasting here in Miami Florida all the way from his house in Colorado.

Here is the link of audio samples on his site I created (presets are of local pirate radio stations here in Miami):
http://www.aerorfi.org/?page=audio_samples.html

Cheers!

I'm a developer of a BT client, so I know what I'm talking about here.. and I must defend BT :)

Pretty much the entire analysis of k2b vs BT is wrong. Hell, even the diagram for how BT propagates is wrong.. it isn't a bunch of trees, it's a mesh (check the official BT site)! Everyone is connected to everyone.

BT splits a file into smaller bite-size chunks (256kb - 1MB in size), and then sends these chunks arond. So Alice, instead of sending the whole 512MB file to Bob, only sends him the first 256kb chunk. Then, Alice proceeds to send the second chunk to Joe, who's already downloading the first part from Bob..

This (almost) guarantees that once Alice has sent out 1 full 512MB file, it's already well spread throughout the network and there are MULTIPLE complete sources, not just 1. And if someone leaves/crashes, they can jump right back in.

With BT, you can launch a .torrent, and the file will start coming in right away from many sources at once.. with k2b, -one- of the people who has the file needs to decide that they want to send it to you.

The only "benifit" k2b has is that it's push instead of pull.. and the benifits of that are greatly debatable...

Here are some good open-source CGI utilities to model your wireless network coverage and plot point-to-point links:

Microwave Radio Path Analysis
Wireless Network Link Analysis
Line-of-Sight Path Analysis
United States Ground Elevation Retreiver
Fresnel Zone Boundry Calculator

Here are some good open-source CGI utilities to model your wireless network coverage and plot point-to-point links:

Microwave Radio Path Analysis
Wireless Network Link Analysis
Line-of-Sight Path Analysis
United States Ground Elevation Retreiver
Fresnel Zone Boundry Calculator

Here are some good open-source CGI utilities to model your wireless network coverage and plot point-to-point links:

Microwave Radio Path Analysis
Wireless Network Link Analysis
Line-of-Sight Path Analysis
United States Ground Elevation Retreiver
Fresnel Zone Boundry Calculator

Here are some good open-source CGI utilities to model your wireless network coverage and plot point-to-point links:

Microwave Radio Path Analysis
Wireless Network Link Analysis
Line-of-Sight Path Analysis
United States Ground Elevation Retreiver
Fresnel Zone Boundry Calculator

Here are some good open-source CGI utilities to model your wireless network coverage and plot point-to-point links:

Microwave Radio Path Analysis
Wireless Network Link Analysis
Line-of-Sight Path Analysis
United States Ground Elevation Retreiver
Fresnel Zone Boundry Calculator

Not mentioning that keeping the box opened gathers lots of dust. Only 6 months and some dust will accumulate (dirt warning..).