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PROGMAN.EXE! They kept it in with every Windows release until XP SP1. If you really want to take a look at it again, here are is some instructions.

http://laptopservicemanuals.no-ip.org/ also has the same problems and all of its Toshiba links are broken now. :(

without much effort:
http://pyrotechnics.no-ip.org/files/astra%20advert%20-%201965-01%20trade%20-%203d%20for%20the%20guy%20(due%20to%20a%20rise%20in%20cost%20of%20living)%20(small).jpg

I've seen old versions of that mask in photos dating many years before the comic.
Not that the old ones looked exactly the same. Like Santa Claus, some corporation takes the image and makes it into 1 icon. BTW, Santa's red/white fatness being THE image of santa is from Coca-Cola, I read about the history of that back before the internet in this thing called a book.

Oh, that's ironic. Not a very effective protest of corporate greed, paying royalties, buying something made in China. Stopping fascism is in large part done by people being aware of their participation in the system and opting out of it. Someone needs to make a free version. Maybe base it off the original. Not the movie version.

Something nicer than some DIY versions.

I suppose you could illegally copy the design...

Are these originals? mask1 mask 2

Ah, here are some more. And another kind.

another and another.

more

another

Or you could base it on a portrait of Guy himself.

Oh, that's ironic. Not a very effective protest of corporate greed, paying royalties, buying something made in China. Stopping fascism is in large part done by people being aware of their participation in the system and opting out of it. Someone needs to make a free version. Maybe base it off the original. Not the movie version.

Something nicer than some DIY versions.

I suppose you could illegally copy the design...

Are these originals? mask1 mask 2

Ah, here are some more. And another kind.

another and another.

more

another

Or you could base it on a portrait of Guy himself.

Oh, that's ironic. Not a very effective protest of corporate greed, paying royalties, buying something made in China. Stopping fascism is in large part done by people being aware of their participation in the system and opting out of it. Someone needs to make a free version. Maybe base it off the original. Not the movie version.

Something nicer than some DIY versions.

I suppose you could illegally copy the design...

Are these originals? mask1 mask 2

Ah, here are some more. And another kind.

another and another.

more

another

Or you could base it on a portrait of Guy himself.

Oh, that's ironic. Not a very effective protest of corporate greed, paying royalties, buying something made in China. Stopping fascism is in large part done by people being aware of their participation in the system and opting out of it. Someone needs to make a free version. Maybe base it off the original. Not the movie version.

Something nicer than some DIY versions.

I suppose you could illegally copy the design...

Are these originals? mask1 mask 2

Ah, here are some more. And another kind.

another and another.

more

another

Or you could base it on a portrait of Guy himself.

Seeed Studio is by far the least expensive PCB manufacturer I've ever seen. As an electronics hobbyist, I recently built a USB phone tap, and used Seeed's Fusion PCB service for the prototype PCB's.

I only planned to make two devices, but the minimum order quantity is 10 units. Somehow, the price was still less than $25, after shipping. This doesn't seem to be a hobbyist charity, either - they're making money off it, even though it's a great deal.

The PCB's were perfect. No errors that I could find.

Order Seeed's Fusion PCB Service

USB Phone Tap

(Yes, there are 3 E's in Seeed)

Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010 documents. I work in tech support, and twice I've had users accidentially trunctuate these files by hitting save then yanking out the USB stick before it's ready. There are lots of (Invariably for-pay) utilities available to recover corrupted office documents, and none of them worked for me. In the end I had to grab a copy of the 30-year-old specification for the ZIP file upon which Office 2007/10 documents are based and write my own program to do the job.

Amazingly, it works. You can feed it a trunctuated zip file, and it'll allow you to recover all the files held within up to the point where the input ends. Turning the XML-based muddle of text and formatting into something readable is an exercise I didn't package up so tidily.

And should anyone in future have happened upon this post while trying to recover a similar problem, http://sharedserv.no-ip.org/utils_dat.html

The large squarish chip in the middle is an atmega 8535 microcontroller. The two rectangular chips farthest from the USB connector (shiny metal thing) drive the LED's (MIC5400YWM). Brightness of each of the 8 LEDs' 3 colors (24 total) is controlled by a 10-bit PWM, at 1.3KHz. Each color, collectively, can have its current adjusted, using a 4-bit DAC. Each LED can be set to off; on, at some brightness and color; blinking between the "on" state and "off" state; or phasing in and out (like a constantly turning dimmer switch).

But, if you just wanted on/off for each of the 24 LED's, all you would need is a smallish USB microcontroller, an I/O expander (because 480mA is too much for one MCU), and LED's

Project Website, including pictures
MIC5400

Please, nobody mod me up! We've gotten far off topic, and I really don't want my site to get slashdotted - it's being hosted in my parents basement, from an OpenWRT router.

Yup, this is exactly what Tekkotsu does, for example, here is the tutorial page and the event class reference page

So for instance, there are events for obvious things like button presses, but also for seeing an object, sensor updates, power status, etc. Further, there are events for individual stages of vision processing so only the stages which actually have subscribers are computed, and those computations are only performed once per frame regardless of how many behaviors want to use that data.

To be fair, a lot of robotics frameworks do something like this, at the least for expensive processing units like vision.

My wife and I celebrated our Pi anniversary a couple of years back. 2pi is coming up soon--my time how flies.

Even if it would attract non-human females, would that necessarily be a bad thing? For example, it be so bad to attract her, her, her, her, or her, to name but a few?

Learn to expand you horizons, man!

It's no wonder people can fall for phishing scams like this when ebay doesn't even have valid ssl certificates on all of its servers..

Screen shot *.ebayobjects.com.au , during payment process .. heh

http://xes.no-ip.org/~xerxes/ebayobjects.com.au.jpeg

Woh woh woh. A Neutral Milk Hotel fan on /.? It's not as if the Apples are any better known, by the way.

If you're interested: http://stormx.no-ip.org/nmh

(Yeah, totally OT, meh. What more can be said on these stories that hasn't been said before?)

Compiled fmpeg binaries for Win32 were here, last time I checked: http://arrozcru.no-ip.org/ffmpeg_builds/

got it for you Not mine, but under the CC.

News in brief http://planetlinux.no-ip.org/

Read this and come back: http://planetlinux.no-ip.org/

Read this and come back: http://planetlinux.no-ip.org/

windows?? http://planetlinux.no-ip.org/

My laptop works better out-of-the-box in Ubuntu than it does in Vista (I installed both, dual-booting, this past weekend).

Of course, I should probably mention that I cheated: the laptop in question is a Thinkpad x60 Tablet, and Thinkpads are almost always well-supported in Linux. It's got Intel graphics, a screen with a weird resolution (1400x1050), Atheros WiFi, a Wacom digitizer, extra buttons next to the screen, volume buttons, a fingerprint scanner, and a hard drive accelerometer. Here's what worked, and what didn't:

Windows Vista

• accelerated graphics: worked, but Windows Update prompted me to install a new driver anyway
• screen: worked, but sometimes switches to 1024x768 when waking from sleep
• WiFi: worked
• digitizer: had to be recalibrated
• screen bezel buttons: had to install a driver from Lenovo (not Windows Update)
• volume buttons: STILL DON'T WORK, even after installing every Lenovo driver that looked relevant! Grr...
• fingerprint scanner: not listed in device manager until I installed Lenovo driver; haven't tested it yet
• hard drive accelerometer: had to install a driver from Lenovo

Kubuntu Linux

• accelerated graphics: worked (even with Beryl!)
• screen: worked
• WiFi: worked
• digitizer: worked
• screen bezel buttons: needed to use xmodmap to assign actions to them, and copy a few scripts to implement those actions
• volume buttons: worked, except the "mute" button mutes but doesn't unmute (the "volume up" button works fine for that, however)
• fingerprint scanner: probably doesn't work, but haven't looked into it
• hard drive accelerometer: driver is broken, from what I've heard

I should note that this page was extremely useful.

Overall, both Kubuntu and Vista work pretty well. Vista has a few unresolved annoyances though, such as the non-working volume keys and the fact that the screen orientation doesn't automatically change in tablet mode (note: I had to add acpi actions to do that in Linux). If it weren't for the lack of tablet-friendly applications in Linux, I wouldn't have Windows on here at all.

Yeah, Digg is a joke - and i'm not saying that as a "slashdotter" or anything goofy like that. I'm saying that as they act like their site is all "democratic", but in reality they censor the living shit out of it. Like when i disagreed with a bunch of the racist stories at the hate site "littlegreenfootballs" and "buried" their Digg stories - which quickly led to my account being deleted for "abuse". Check it out, "Digg this you Biased Bastards"

So it seems like it ought to be possible to 'recontainerize' a Divx .divx or .avi into an .mp4 file without decompressing and recompressing it, thus avoiding loss.

Get mencoder for demuxing from avi, MP4Box for muxing into mp4 and optionally AtomicParsley for metadata. Windows binaries: [1] [2] [3]

On Linux install the packages MPlayer and gpac.

Sample code

mencoder -ovc copy -nosound -of rawvideo -o "temp.264" "the.avi"
mencoder -ovc frameno -oac copy -of rawaudio -o "temp.aac" "the.avi"
MP4Box -fps $fps -add "temp.264"#video -add "temp.aac"#audio -new "the.mp4"
atomicparsley "the.mp4" --stik "Music Video" -W

You can find out the framerate (frames per second) of the avi with ffmpeg [4].

ffmpeg -i "the.avi" nul 2>&1

Look for the line with fps in it.

RTFM of the parsley to see what sort of metadata you can add.

Now mod me up, bitches.

For those complaining about firefox's memory footprint, I suggest you read this. In general firefox will use more RAM only if you have more RAM available; you WANT more of your memory to be used for caching to speed things up (as long as it doesn't result in swapping). That said, there are a few real bugs in plugins, and probably the main codebase too. They are hopefully being worked on. By the way, here are my referer browser stats for October so far, for anyone interested.

For those of you still running IE who are ready to treat or cure your disease, the direct download page is here. For those of you who want to feed your masochistic disorder, this might be more appropriate.

How many real ATMs have been exploited using this information? Manuals for common hardware are basically public information (although I'm sure the vendor retains copyright to them and could conceivably also use trade secret law to keep people from sharing proprietary information). I don't really think this is much of a threat. If you are a security researcher and want to learn more, here are two ATM manuals that I've found.
Images scanned from a physical ATM manual
A different manual in PDF form

How many real ATMs have been exploited using this information? Manuals for common hardware are basically public information (although I'm sure the vendor retains copyright to them and could conceivably also use trade secret law to keep people from sharing proprietary information). I don't really think this is much of a threat. If you are a security researcher and want to learn more, here are two ATM manuals that I've found.
Images scanned from a physical ATM manual
A different manual in PDF form

Your history of SDF is correct, but this particular case does not prove that Linux is less secure than BSD. Depending on how you configure your system, either OS can be rock solid impenetrable, or more exploitable than an unpatched Windows98 box. Very few successful break ins are due to kernel flaws; usually the problem is an application bug, bad configuration, or incorrect policy. I also run a public shell service, and it too often comes under attempted exploit and DoS attacks. I've successfully managed to run it using Linux. I also run OpenBSD on another machine. Linux and BSD both have strong security as strengths, if you use them correctly. However, there is something to be said for OpenBSD's policy of "secure by default".

And I have a site about an alternative commandline shell for Unix systems, fish. And guess what, The IE marketshare is almost nothing!

Thats the thing with statistics. If you know what result you want, all you have to do is figure out where to collect your data.

I don't know about VAX, but Debian runs great on MIPS and many other platforms. I installed and used it on several Sgi Indys and X worked fine, as did sound, networking, and all the hardware features I had used under IRIX. Some software was slower (gcc is notorously less optomised for MIPS then the commericial Sgi c compiler MIPS Pro), but more modern software was available. Most Debian packages are available for most architectures.

I also run Debian on PA-RISC for my shell server. Add an account for yourself and do a few apt-cache searches to see which packages are available. All the major desktop and server packages are there (various apache mods, firefox, gaim, amule, etc). I found Debian to provide more modern software then HP-UX or BSD for PA-RISC. Even most of the somewhat obscure Debain provided applications are available. I run Debian and Ubuntu on x86, OpenBSD and Solaris on SPARC64 (Solaris is better for SMP systems), IRIX and Debian on MIPS (IRIX is better for newer Sgis like the Octane2), and HP-UX and Debian on PA-RISC. Overall I've found Debian to be the most portable complete Operating Environment. I have not used NetBSD that much so I am not aware of it's current state. It has a reputation for portability, but seams to lag behind in terms of real world testing (many of the ports apparently consist of cross compiling code), and also doesn't seem to have as many packages as Debian. Overall it just looks less up to date then Debian or OpenBSD.

Yeah, I went all through this as a Multi-Media project here at RIT. Even after quoting sources like Vint Cerf, I have still caught hell.

Peer guardian does not make it safe to download copyrighted material from the ed2k network although it may help a bit. The risk is low through safety in numbers. Reccently released films and music are probably higher risk than older stuff.

Yes, there are fake servers that filter search results or record users activitys. There are fake razorback servers active now.

I recommend either a) using emule set to not connect to a server and using kad
or b) turn off the options to auto update your server list from servers and clients, clear all the servers, update your server list from OCBMaurice's server list ocasionally. The gruk.org server list went down along with razorback. All the other server lists I know of are out of date
or list fake servers.

Alternativley go back to using binary newsgroups. Less choice than ed2k but much less risk if you just download.

My web site hosts one of the more offensive cartoons made in response to the rioters.

http://unixclan.no-ip.org/~the1/muhammaddevareaux. jpg

Additionally, if you add an account for yourself, you can use scp to download a copy of Theo Van Gogh's film, Submission. He was murdered by a Moslem angry over its contents.

http://unixclan.net/

If anyone has a problem with my expression of free speech, they can try to hack me all they want, if they succeed, the content will be back up within a few days. Moreover, it is already available in hundreds of places (especially on p2p networks); redundancy is key to Internet content resilience. The Moslem attackers will not succeed in anything except convincing everyone else that fundamentalism is idiotic.

One of the greatest things about City of Heroes is that it could be run in windowed mode and used accross dual monitors connected to a single card:

http://walkiry.no-ip.org/coh/grab_023_2005_01_27.h tml

I tried 3 monitors (I had them already, the third one was connected to a PCI Radeon 9200SE) but didn't quite work, although I later heard in a discussion about this in the CoH forums that triple monitors worked wonderfully in a dual-card SLI configuration. YMMV.

The gained real state was wonderful. As you can see in the screenshot, I could have a lot of chat windows open, as well as all the bars available (team, inspirations, powers), and the map tab, while keeping a great view of the game. I'd imagine that if WoW were to support multimonitor setups, the gain in space would be wonderful since the UI gets crowded so easily. Imagine having multiple chat windows shoved to the side, and keeping track of everyone in a 40 man raid without having to completely cover your screen and obscure your character.

Yes. The fish.

I've been toying around a bit with AJAX, and it really depends on what you are doing. Autocomplete should ideally be implemented using an indexed table of common words, or something like that, since if it does anything complex, it will be dog slow because of the large number of transactions. Also, client-side caching is good to make sure the amount of network trafic doesn't get out of hand. You can do some cool things with very little JavaScript, like my english to elvish interactive translator.

Other AJAX concepts actually make things faster. I've been implementing a forum that never reloads. When you write an entry and press the submit button, an XmlHTTP request is sent containing the new post and the id of the last recieved post. The reply contains all new posts, which are then appended to the innerHTML of the content div-tag. Less CPU-time is spent regenerating virtually identical pages over and over, and less data is sent over the network.

I have ascended five times, including a tourist ^_^

I have failed to ascend many many times. I still weep when looking at my records file and seing that archeologist that died in the astral plane because I didn't realize Rodney had cursed my Unicorn horn (death by Pestilence... sigh).

I agree. Sure a good syntax is vital for a shell, but it seems to me they have completely forgotten that a shell needs a good UI as well. I would have expected them to implement things like command-specific tab-completions, syntax highlighting, clipboard intergration, etc., but I guess MSH is really only meant for scripting, not interactive use. Shameless plug: If you're running Unix, you can try out fish, a shell which features all the above UI niceties as well as a cleaned up shell syntax.

*cough*

http://mboverload.no-ip.org/tech/mboverloadpak.htm l

http://mboverload.no-ip.org/tech/recyle_2.html

BT was designed (IIRC) to help distribute large (Linux) iso's. I just looked at the official BT page and there is really nothing there endorsing anything - it's more of a "hey...look at the geeky cool thing I made" page.

However, if you look in the FAQ, it points to two places for content to download:

http://bt.etree.org/ and http://smiler.no-ip.org/BT/BTlinks.php

The first one looks to be bootlegs of bands that allow bootlegging. The second, is a more of an all-things-BT clearninghouse, with links to more questionable sites among legit items.

So, how much infringing encouragement does BT have? What if I made my own client and billed it as the best video store next to Blockbuster? Is just that client liable, or is BT as a whole now advertising infringing uses?

I have a feeling that this won't be the last that SCOTUS will hear of this case.

The number 58 does not include commands that start or en blocks, such as 'if' 'case', etc. I included them, since I consider them to be a sort of builtin commands, that is why I said about 70. And while there are commands in bash that are there since it would be difficult to implement them as an external program, many, many of them are there for very little reaseon. Examples of this include 'echo', 'printf', 'pwd', 'kill', 'test' and 'time'.

And bash does support regular expressions. Try this:

if [[ abcfoobarbletch =~ 'foo(bar)bl(.*)' ]]; then echo tjo; fi

<yet another shameless plug>

For a shell that only has builtins for things that can't be implemented as commands, and that has a very clean, simple syntax, try out fish.

</yet another shameless plug>

Mostly true, I admit. But check out fish. Really! I am not biased by the fact that I am the main author. :)

Some of the new features in fish include a much nicer history, descriptions for tab completions (like when tab completing a manual page, the description is the whatis information on the manual page), tab completions for the options to many common commands, a good pager for browsing long lists of tab completions, syntax highlighting with error flagging of many common errors such as misspelled commands, misspelled options or reading from or appending to a non-existing file, X clipboard integration, a saner language syntax.

Read this article for more information.

I think there are a lot of room for innovation in the CLI market. How about syntax highlighting? Or better integration with the GUI? A better completion mechanism? A visual shell, with a visual tree representation of the filesystem for quick directory selection?

A few of these ideas can bew found in fish, which you can read up on here.

Truth be told, Linux does a pretty lousy job of integrating the shell into the GUI as well. Shell programs should support the mouse, should respect theme color preferences and should use the X clipboard for copy and paste. There are many other ways in which the CLI could benefit from a closer integration with the GUI.

I have written a shell that uses the X clipboard for copy and paste, available here, but the other features are still missing. I hope to support using the mouse to select completions from the tab completion list in the future as well.

I've written a Unix shell that aims to have a lower learning curve than traditional shells. It does this by having a smaller and simpler syntax, and integrated help features.

There is an article about the shell here, and the shells homepage is here.

Syntax highlighting can give you a great deal of information. I have written a shell called fish, that syntax highlights the commands as you are typing them. What I find useful about this is that fish colors potential errors in red. Mistyped commands, non-existant options, reading from non-existing files and loads of other errors can be identified by just glancing on your screen.

</shameless plug>

I think both zsh and bash could use a redesign. The syntax is crufty, with stupid variable assignment syntax ('foo = bar' is not the same thing as 'foo=bar'? '$foo' is not the same thing as `$foo` or "$foo"?), insufficient tab-completion support and very few features enabled by default.
I have written a shell called fish. It has lots of new features. Check it out.

</shameless plug>

I think both zsh and bash could use a redesign. The syntax is crufty, with stupid variable assignment syntax ('foo = bar' is not the same thing as 'foo=bar'? '$foo' is not the same thing as `$foo` or "$foo"?), insufficient tab-completion support and very few features enabled by default.
I have written a shell called fish. It has lots of new features. Check it out.

</shameless plug>