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Samsumg ML-2510 with a starter cartridge $59. It's USB and works well if you DO NOT use Samsung's broken installer. Incredibly fast and the toner is perfect for PCB masking to etch with ferric chloride or masking brass to make an electrolytic etch. The toner makes a damn tough coating once you get it transfered. I've had to use strong paint stripper to get it off. I've had good luck using a digital hot plate to make the transfer, not so good luck with a standard clothing iron.

You can see a photo of brass etching here. The defects actually make it look better than a perfect reproduction of the image used. I made this for a friend who is a Disney employee.

http://mrmeval.is-a-geek.net/~mrmeval/images/blogstuff/brassetch/brass-after-final/dsc00064.jpg

http://mrmeval.is-a-geek.net/~mrmeval/mp3s/hum-sinister.mp3

Yes I did.

http://mrmeval.is-a-geek.net/~mrmeval//mp3s/hum-sinister.mp3

You can overlay them so that at rest you hear one sound but when moving the overlayed lower pitched sound is more evident. This can be done for several variations but I think you'd be limited to at most three overlapped sounds. I mixed the above with artsbuilder though you'll have to do the math on the frequency shift.

For variations have a keypad marked with different variations and one marked "car skidding sideways at high speed mixed with shriek" which controls an arduino that controls an MP3 device. It can run lighting displays as well.

http://mrmeval.is-a-geek.net/~mrmeval/images/humor/MyManBitch.jpeg

I can paste a shit load for my comment. Lameness filter nullified

Don't flash a toothy smile, don't wear your glasses and don't wear a hat or head scarf while you're getting your photo taken for an Indiana driver's license or identification card.

The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles last month rolled out a new set of rules governing how people must be photographed on their driver's license photos.

No, the rules aren't designed to make driver's license photos -- which already had a reputation for being unflattering -- even worse.

Rather, the BMV is making the photographs uniform so their facial recognition software can be its most effective in spotting fraudulent license applications.

A person's new photograph will be compared against old photographs on file -- more than 6 million dating back at least eight years -- to protect customers from identity fraud, said Ron Stiver, BMV commissioner.

"We take very seriously our responsibility to help protect the personal identity of Hoosiers, and the employment of this innovative technology is yet another important step forward in doing just that," Stiver said.

BMV Communications Director Dennis Rosebrough said if a criminal went to get a driver's license under his name, the criminal's photograph would be compared to an old photograph of Rosebrough and the BMV could be alerted the next day that the two don't match.

Rosebrough said the new technology is just an advancement of what the BMV already was doing. BMV employees always have looked at the old photo of a person to see if it looked like the person seeking a new license.

The facial recognition software might raise privacy issues, Rosebrough acknowledged. The BMV could give police a photo of a wanted person and that person could be arrested going through an airport where facial recognition software is used.

But Rosebrough said the BMV has long cooperated with law enforcement to provide photos and information that leads to arrests.

The bottom line, Rosebrough said, is that in this day of identity theft and fraud, "We believe it's our responsibility to assure all Hoosiers the credentials we issue ... are as accurate as possible." He said Indiana is one of about 20 states using the technology.

Rosebrough said BMV customers can petition to leave on headdresses in photographs for religious reasons and can petition to have a nonphoto license or identification card. Overall, the rule changes have been implemented without a hitch.

"We've really had minimal issues," Rosebrough said.

"If people understand why we're doing something, our experience is the great, great majority of our customers say 'fine, we get it.' "

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I can mount the first image in Linux and there are ssl keys that I believe are used to mount the encrypted file system. I don't have a Mac but if I did I would use "hdiutil" along with those keys to mount the encrypted dmg image.

See:
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/forums/viewtopic.php ?t=2081

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/forums/viewtopic.php ?p=14612#14612

I'm sure someone else has probably figured this out by now but it's pretty easy to mount the firmware image under linux. First get yourself a copy of the firmware from the Apple site and then:

Code:

$ unzip iPhone1,1_1.0_1A543a_Restore.ipsw
$ dd if=694-5259-38.dmg bs=2048 skip=1 of=/tmp/iphone.img
# mount /tmp/iphone.img /mnt -o loop

Then:

Code:

$ ls -l /mnt
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9 2007-06-26 20:40 bin
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 2007-05-22 22:54 dev
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 80 11 2007-06-26 20:40 etc -> private/etc
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 2007-05-22 18:05 mnt1
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 2007-05-22 18:05 mnt2
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 2007-06-19 17:42 private
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 2007-06-26 20:40 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 2007-06-26 20:40 System
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7 2007-06-26 20:40 usr

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net:8100/

I just have to remark that one of the websites linked on that page, http://www.2advanced.com/ -- is the most astounding and complete piece of flash work I have ever seen on the web. Seriously. I'm floored.

I ditched Microsoft and went 100% Linux in my house several years ago. My wife and kids are as far from being tech savvy as one can get. Life has been SO easy for them and for me since that time. I don't get viruses, I don't get malware, I don't have to install anti-virus and anti-malware software that does nothing more than eat up CPU cycles. My kids have used OpenOffice.org to do all of their schoolwork and have been on the A honor roll every year. My son will be a junior in high school and my daughter will be starting her first year of college with a full scholarship. Maybe if I would have grown up with Linux I could have been smart like them. They certainly didn't get it from me. They are smart but they are not tech savvy and they don't really have an interest in computers which is excellent in my book. Hopefully they can actually do something useful with their life rather than the IT grind.

In my house the computers are just tools that work when they need them and they don't get in the way. It's almost like you don't even know they are there. You can concentrate on your real work rather than on whether the computer is going to work or whether your virus software is up to date or whether your credit card data is going to some 3rd party.

As I said, you look up the word "user" in the dictionary and you will find a picture of my wife and kids. With that said, they have never broken anything that has rendered the computer unusable or even their own account for that matter, unlike my having to constantly repair their Windows profiles and reinstall the OS back in the old days. I just chuckle when I see articles like these and I chuckle when I see people defend Microsoft for their severely flawed OS. No problem though, I like free entertainment.

In my household I have had around 8 Linux machines (a few servers, a few desktops, and a few laptops) for the last few years and have been running Linux in some form since the early 90s. I can not remember a single time on any one of those machine where I have had to reinstall the OS. Most have had one install and then an upgrade install every time a new release comes out. They automatically update themselves with any security updates nightly while I sleep. I guess my point is, computing in my house is not a chore. I am glad to see at least one more person take off the shackles. Good luck my friend!

-Void
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/

Once upon a time not long ago I decided to track down where the spam I was getting came from. I did this for about a month and in that month 99.9% of the spam I received came from what appeared to be zombie "Windows" machines. When are people going to call this out as what it really is, yet another Microsoft problem. You can find my tracking results here:

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/spam/

Void

On that topic, my own hack of choice; an animated presentation engine in 341 bytes, a protest against my classmates' multi-megabyte powerpoint based presentations:

$c=`clear`;foreach(`tail -c+341 $0|zcat`){if(/^p/){print@l;@l=()} elsif(/^d(.+)/){select$u,$u,$u,$1/10}elsif(/^s(.)/ ){$s=10;$e=-30; $m=-1;if('o'eq$1){$s=-30;$e=10;$m=1}for($i=$s;$i!= $e;$i+=$m){$j=0; foreach(@l){print substr($_,(($i+$j++)>0?($i+$j)**2:0),-1)."\n"} select($u,$u,$u,0.1);print$c}}elsif(/^c/){print$c; @l=()} else{push@l,$_}}__END__

The full presentation with data file; a ~1:30 demonstration on floating point binary in under 2KB.

Source with generator; have p7zip installed and run "./build.sh floating" to generate the presentation.

I don't do much perl hackery, I'm sure someone who does could do shorter ;)

And yet, I'm mostly in it to watch them with these comedic fake subtitles turned on.

What is the definition of a "retro" machine? My blog here is running on, what i consider to be, a retro machine. It's a 233 recently reformatted with Fedora Core 3. (Yes I know 4 is out)

While many many not think this is very old, I guess it's basically because I can't find a way to hook up my Tandy 1000 to the internet, (or i'd have my blog on it.. that'd be funny)

Apple has dropped their 1.8 Ghz PowerMac.. Is this aiming more towards things to come? Click here for the Dropped 1.8 Ghz PowerMac entry

i got one right here...

granted, it's not a high-res display, and the redraw rate really sucks, but it does come in a nice pink.

link

Do note that there are already several http mirrors going round, so look a couple of screenfuls down the page if the server dies (ETA: 30 seconds...)

See this? Full shadows, running in realtime, with no hardware acceleration, on 400MHz (and account for 2 lots of X overhead, networking, and compression, as I was running it within VNC). True alpha blending of full windows is also doable, but there's no UI for setting it yet :(

To repeat: full blending, realtime, on non-accelerated 400MHz. With current X + E17 technology.

PS. Please don't mod me up, that image is hosted on my home connection for lack of anywhere else to put it >_<

We succeded. Our house burnt down, due ( probably) to an electrical fault in a computer. The damage was too extensive to be sure. The computer shown is mine, but the fire started in a room at the other end of the house. Learn from our mistake: Insurance is your friend! http://lordsnott.is-a-geek.net/gumby/jezz.html

Oooh. As a back-end, use something like the [single-player, online] nationstates.net political simulator. NationStates' 3-axis (political/economic/personal freedoms) model would offer a lot of political options.

You can get a real BT file here.

And you were too busy trying to close pop-ups to provide a working link??

LINK


~foooo