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Makes you wonder why rapidshare didn't implement this

The kaywa reader reads this :

http://emz.yi.org/emdigo/sis/C3D-auto.png

which, on my monitor, is about 2"x2", from about 7" away. It also has a macro mode, but I've not needed it yet.

In my experience, data matrix just plain doesn't work as well as QR-code. With the latter, I can just point my phone's camera in the general direction of the QR-code and it'll pick it up, but data matrix takes much more effort. Of course, that could be the reader's fault, but there you go.

QR-code here : http://emz.yi.org/emdigo/sis/Cinema3D.html

I use a QR code to allow people to conveniently install my software on their phone. Say a user is browsing on their desktop computer and comes across a review for my software. The user decides they want to try it out but the prospect of typing a url into the phone puts them off. They then notice the QR Code so they take out their Nokia N95, launch the preinstalled reader and scan it directly into the phone, which then automatically launches the web browser to download and install the application. Ok, it's more than a single click, but it's really convenient. I use this method quite often on my 3250 using the reader from Kaywa.
Try it yourself using the code here http://emz.yi.org/
Nokia are/will be using there codes on their beta site too.
Max.
(posted from my 3250)

That you host on your site!

The Anon posters shown in the vid: 1 2
And the "We're discussing penises, do you want to join?" image.

http://trollscore.y7.yi.org/

http://trollscore.y7.yi.org/

Search works now. Stay tuned for the voting feature.

http://trollscore.y7.yi.org/

Search works now. Stay tuned for the voting feature.

Yeah, Slashdot has become a place for attention whores like Zonk who would cut off their own penis and throw it at you to get your attention.

http://trollscore.y7.yi.org/

http://trollscore.y7.yi.org/

No censorship. No fascism. No Zonk.

http://trollscore.y7.yi.org/

No censorship, no fascism, no Zonk!

http://trollscore.y7.yi.org/

No censorship, no fascism, no Zonk.

http://trollscore.y7.yi.org/

Hava look at http://indie.yi.org:8000/gesall/en. It is still just a demo but if there is enough interest the service might be released.

Just one brawny guy is (barely) sufficient.

8.4 MB WMV

...with some sandpaper.

The dot-com boom is history, but efforts to use patents as a competitive weapon are alive and well. On Oct. 27, Dell (DELL ) was sued in a U.S. District Court by tiny Virginia outfit DE Technologies, which alleges that the PC giant has infringed on its patent covering a system for "facilitating international computer-to-computer commercial transactions," according to the complaint. In plain English: global e-commerce.

I'll second that.

MythTV is great and it's extensible - if you want to build your own PVR and you like Linux, then you'll like MythTV. It's not necessarily cheaper than a Tivo up front, but it's more flexible and extensible if you're into that sort of hacking thing ;)

Having just completed a MythTV box that now "owns" my TV, I can say it was more complicated, cost more, and took longer than I expected. I can also say that I'm very happy with what I have and what I can do with it, and the potential to add new features and functionality.

Installing MythTV takes some time. I recommend using one of the distros/guides below. Following these, most clueful people should be able to get MythTV running.

See:

MythTV Homepage
KnoppMyth - bootable MythTV
Jarod's Fedora/MythTV Homepage
Debian MythTV howto
Gentoo MythTV howto

The Unix Programming Environment. A true classic.

And yet we have those who stood up at Tiananmen Square. The younger generations are waking up.

I'm just saying we can't paint the Chinese population as universally passive in the face of authority. Things are changing, else the Chinese government wouldn't be so worried.

Why not put the PVR in a different room and just run the tv-cable to the TV? Lan cables are a no-go due to installation requirements, wifi's not fast enough to have the necessary data transferred over the needed distance and a box in living room is prohibited by wife.

There are people running myth over 802.11b, although if I was going to go wireless, I'd go 802.11g or 802.11a, which should be plenty of bandwidth.

Make an IR-connection with these nasty small transmitter/receiver combos (aprox. EUR 40), and get some learning remotes.

I have a 2.4GHz spread spectrum one of these that does A/V one way, and IR the other, so I can control all my equipement from the bedroom, and don't need anything but a TV and one of these transceivers. Apparently you can get use multiple "receivers" (the ones that receive audio/video, and transmit IR).

This would be a nicer solution than TV cable, put your myth box in a cupboard (combined front and backend), with one of these to receive the IR, and transmit (to multiple receivers) the A/V.

Being pure digital, the picture quality is perfect, and it doesn't seem to interfere with my 802.11b stuff despite using the same spectrum.

Here are a couple of examples of the transceiver hardware I mean. I paid about AUD $100 for my set.
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
-- G. B. Shaw

My blog: http://yi.org/blog, Latest entry : Muscle powered microrobot's

As I'm sure we all know, upgradability is a big issue with computer hardware. My MythTV box is using a Cooler Master case (but in black), with this motherboard.

I've already added a DVB-T (HDTV in the US) card, which you can't do with this box (i.e. you will never get digital TV with this box).

My box is a bit bigger, but looks like a stereo component (brushed steel). I'm also planning on adding an extra analogue capture card (bringing my capture sources up to three). This will fill the PCI slots on the Micro-ATX board, so I'm damn glad I didn't buy a smaller box!

I've got a DVD-ROM drive, DVD burner and currently one 160GB hard disk. Planning on adding another much bigger hard drive (waiting, waiting, I want 1TB)

If you are thinking of building a PVR (it's a fun project), you really should think about expandability and upgradability.

Also check Jarod's PVR Hardware Database, and his excellent Install Guides page.

Also, don't forget MythTV is a very nice client/server architecture, so you can run your "backend" on some beefy ugly PC in a cupboard, and us anything (including an XBox) as a frontend.

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"Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
-- Henry Mencken

My blog: http://yi.org/blog, Latest entry : Muscle powered microrobot's

Whatever. This book is no substitute for a close reading of The Unix Programming Environment -- if anyone knows what is, I'd love to hear about it.

Over time I've collected a disorganized handfull of links related to free ghost type stuff on my online dumping ground.

Of those, Partimagelooks the most promising to me, though I still haven't had the chance to try it.

What's next to your home key?

Isn't it obvious?

Make your own webpage, it doesn't have to be complex. As long as your document uses the keywords that people will google for, people will generally be able to find your page. You would need to get a couple outside links to make sure the search engines index the page, though. Using your homepage URL in your Slashdot profile will suffice.

It's amazing what happens when obscure words get posted on the web. I get dozens of hits a day on my personal online dumping grounds for a variety of search terms.

Yeah, I'd agree that Google does produce quite a few garbage results, but let's keep things in perspective. Before Google, I'd be used to 3 PAGES of garbage results on AltaVista and other engines.

You've got to remember that Google is just code. It has a lot of tricks to produce good results, but there are bound to be little things that slip through. As for your example, it appears to be a bit of luck. The site that shows up at #1 lists all its recent queries as links, a neat little feature. One of those recent queries happens to exactly match your Google query of 'convert wmv mpeg'. So Google guesses that it's a specific page about some object called 'convert wmv mpeg' and it gets a good ranking, in this case the top ranking.

It happens on my personal homepage too. For some reason (page design, link text, page header, whatever) this miniscule grep examples page on my personal web database comes up as number 3 for "grep examples" (quotes included). I get a few hits that way...

More importantly, in terms of realism regarding UK broadband connectivity:

ADSL-For-Ipswich | Barnt Green, Birmingham | Edenbridge, Kent | Brinscall, Lancashire | Chafford Hundred, Grays | Broxburn/Uphall, Scotland | New Mills, Stockport | Bradford-on-Avon | Antrim, Northern Ireland | Paddock Wood, Kent | Mossley, Greater Manchester | Maltby, Rotherham | Cudworth, South Yorkshire | Pembury, Kent | Telford, Shropshire | Totnes, Devon | Caister on Sea, Great Yarmouth | Broadband in the East of England | Wargrave, Berkshire | Alton, Hampshire #1 | Alton, Hampshire #2 | Frodsham, Cheshire | Atherstone, Warwickshire | Sleaford, Lincolnshire | Neston, South Wirral | Blackpool/Fleetwood, Lancashire | Colwyn Bay, Wales | Whitby, Yorkshire | Saltcoats/Ardossan/Stevenston, Strathclyde | Thornbury, South Gloucestershire | Dinnington, Sheffield | Irby, Wirral | Colwyn Bay/Old Colwyn/Rhos-On-Sea, North Wales | Hednesford, Staffs | Connahs Quay/Flint/Mold/Sealand/Queensferry, North Wales | Eastham/Wirrall, Cheshire | Worle, North Somerset | Dereham, Norfolk | Leicester Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire | Bolton Westhoughton, Lancashire | Leek, Staffordshire | Ivybridge, Devon | Attleborough, Norfolk | Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire | Montrose, Angus, Scotland | Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex | Worcester/St Johns/Fernhill Heath, Worcester | Allerton, Liverpool (and surrounding exchanges) | Buntingford, North Hertfordshire | Glastonbury, Somerset | St Budeaux, Devon | Fenland towns of Ramsey, Yaxley, Whittlesey, Chatteris, Ely and Soham | Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire | Pershore, Worcs | Yarmouth, Norfolk | Great Oakley, Corby, Northants | South Woodham Ferrers, Essex | Goring & South Stoke, South Oxfordshire and Streatley & Lower Basildon, West Berkshire | Kinross & Milnathort, Perthshire | Bolsover, Derbyshire | Elton, Ince and Helsby in Cheshire | Hanwell/Horley/Wroxton/Balscote/North Newington/Drayton, Oxfordshire | Tonyrefail/Gilfach Goch and surrounding area, Mid Glamorgan | Rotherfield Greys/Rotherfield Peppard/Shepherds Green, Oxfordshire | Heath Hayes, Staffordshire | Hednesford, Staffordshire | Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire | Adderbury (Nr. Banbury), Oxfordshire | Lydney, Gloucestershire | Knaresborough, North Yorkshire | Saltburn-By-The-Sea, Cleveland | Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire | Churchdown, Gloucestershire

or just use this one

Sadly, I wasn't.

I don't believe that standard UNIX/Linux systems come with a program that provides shell-level access to running a chrooted program as a non-priviledged user; I wrote a little C program a while ago that does this - chroot-setuid.c

CP.

If it does require a server side piece, it's not a web browser, per se; but as a general question, is it worthwhile to look into "compressed" web pages, e.g., foo.html.zlib?

It's been a standard for a while. IE, Mozilla, Konqueror, etc, support it. It helps my little cable modem serve pages a little faster, since the objects with mime-type containing "text/" are compressed (and you can compress text a lot).

My patch also supports pre-compressed pages, ie if there's a request for a.html, and a.html.gz exists, it will send that one. With some cron action to make all of the compressed pages every night, the at-request-time compression goes away.

Better check on your .NET worth after posting this web site. Bank account 3846 8109-689 at the Bank of Montreal.

The whole thing about "people can lean Linux only if you teach them because the bandwidth is so poor ..." etc. etc. is all a bunch of crap. The IITs (in this case IIT Kanpur) never had great badwidth (at least untill a few years ago). See details of ERNET connection setup at IITK. That was more pathetic than any dialup connection available in most of the places in India now. I remember downloading all my stuff through FTPmail around 1994. The regular connection used to be so poor that it was often virtually unusable. Still may of us had working linux systems with regular updates through this poor connection.

I agree with you on the user front. I was trying to explane to my mother that I had my new site up, bhsx.yi.org, and she kept telling me she couldn't get to it. Now this is a woman who ran the offices for Consumer's Digest Magazine (failed .com and all) for 16 or so years, she's a woman who used to pass around WordStar pirate discs, when WordStar cost something like $550/seat. So I thought maybe I screwed the DNS pooch, somehow. But after logging into a remote server and using links, I realized she didn't really know what she was doing. She was running win98/IE and somehow couldn't get to my site. So one day I decided that she should show me what she was doing when trying to reach it. She went right for the "Yahoo Search" form that yahoo embedded into her IE. I tried to correct her, and said "No, no, the URL field... the bar at the top." So she clicks the Search form on Excite (she was checking her mail... I can't believe she still uses Excite/SpamHaven, but I degress). So at this point I point to the URL bar, and she understands. So what does she do?

She starts typing in www.bhsx.yi.org....

True Story, just happenned last week.

Postnuke also has an implementation of the blogger api, allowing all those little win32 desktop apps (as well as PDA, cellphone) access to your postnuke site. I personall think postnuke is the way, with tons of modules available. I'm waiting for PostSHOP to get going again (there was a shopping cart for older versions of pustnuke, but it was deemed unstable/insecure, iirc). With just about as many themes available for postnuke as there are for KDE, and even a template generator for the upcoming 8.0 release, that's where I see the future. You can check out my somewhat new site (nice theme) at bhsx.yi.org. I'd say it took about 20 minutes to setup and about half-an-hour's worth of content so far. Super simple.

That's not historic. I do something very similar to that, today, using Apache and ipchains. I ban users who use those fucking multi-threading download manglers. You can see the idiot list du jour at greycat.yi.org.

Oh the memories...I first played netrek in 1994, and have probably logged a few thousand CA hours since then, and a few hundred in other ships (yeah, I'm still a newbie).

Anyway, although I grew tired of netrek a year or so ago and moved on to more other things, I still haven't found a game that I like better, nor have fellow netrekkers been able to point me to any game they like better. The intense teamwork, strategy, tactics, and action that netrek offers is something I have yet to see anywhere else.

Someone said the dogfighting system is simple, but I think it is quite a delicate and complex masterpiece, especially when compared to alternative 2D space combat. It takes years to become a decent dogfighter - it is almost a virtual martial art. In no other game I've played do you have to aim and fire torps, phaser, dodge, pressor/tractor, change speed, det, keep track of enemy damage (to cripple) all at the same time. And even if you can do those 7 tricky things at once, you will help your team to get genocided if you do not also pay attention to the big picture and read messages, pay attention to the galactic map, and the strategic importance and status of 15 ships besides your own.
I challenge anyone who thinks dogfighting is simple to see if they still think the same after 10 dogfights with me ;)

As for netrek as a whole, it is more of a sport than a game.

When its players aren't being "old farts" or "arrogant children", netrek also has quite a strong social aspect to it. In many games, there are so many people that it is difficult to play with people and get to know them, or there is no real point in talking. But in a sport like netrek, you build trust among your teammates - you learn their escort style, their capabilities, their personality/loyalty to you and your team, and factor all of this into the many strategic decisions you have to make. (And then you must also know your enemy.)

There is also psychological warfare (which is easier to manipulate in pickup), and almost always a need for leaders who know how to direct and encourage the team.

Anyway... the question I want to pose is: why haven't the superior aspects of netrek's gameplay been recognized and incorporated into modern computer games? I have played games like Subspace, Infantry, Cosmic Rift, etc., and although they have thriving communities, I found them very lacking compared to netrek's gameplay. And in 3D space combat and FPS games, gameplay on the same level as netrek doesn't seem feasible. Has the advancement of 3D technology been so seductive that the majority gamemakers have lost sight of the fact that gameplay is the biggest factor in what makes games fun? Perhaps the problem is that the commercial interests who govern what games are made are posing the question 'what makes games sell?' Perhaps there has to be another serious grassroots game production that is by gamers, for gamers (who enjoy gameplay), as opposed to the masses of casual/unintelligent gamers who are just looking for a cool even if mindless way to waste time.

For about 7 years now, about as long as I have known about netrek, I have thought about creating a modern and extensible successor to netrek. Although the developer base for netrek has largely seemed to have grown up and moved on, I believe that there is a younger untapped volunteer coding/development talent out there that would be willing to revamp netrek for the 21st century. I have seen and been a part of other large scale projects that accomplished some really substantial things. I think the biggest root cause of netrek's dwindling health is a lack of enthusiasm among netrek server/client developers and especially would-be developers.

I have recently begun some initial technical design and coding on a new endeavour, and I am curious whether there are any serious gameplay loving gamers out there who have seen the light in netrek and also have something to offer to a for-real development project. I'm not talking about a interactive tutorial, hacking the client to make it look pretty, or providing a better netrekrc file. Nor am I talking about making a 3D version of netrek in visual basic or a 'learning how to program in C++' experiment. I'm talking about a new and committed professional but grassroots movement with new momentum to create a modern bronco netrek based upon a highly extensible and maintainable client/server framework.

In 4-12 months or so I intend to formally launch a new project to take on this endeavour. If anyone thinks they may be interested in being a part of such a project (especially visionary gameplay designers and architectural design experts at this point) or wants to be kept informed of the project's development, should it get off the ground, feel free to drop me a note at mawen@thirsk.yi.org.

Peace out,
Mahalalel - (aka jared, Hyperphase, -Classified-, Mifiq)

Here are my thoughts:

By now I am sure most people have seen that Mozilla RC1 has been released .
The press has picked this up and now there are a number of reviews .



They all fail to compare RC1 to the last release (0.99) which leads to almost
all positive feedback.


The truth is that Mozilla really screwed up their release process. This is the
worst stable Mozilla build I have tested in the last year. They litterally
broke every rule in the book:


- They introduced major UI changes which are incompatible with all of the builds
since 0.80 or so.


- Saving files locally (at least on my system) is totally broken. Want to save
a PDF file locally? ... Too bad!


- They have completely changed around a lot of the preferences. Where did
these come from?


There are also numerous other small bugs.


RC1 should have been 0.99 with *only* patches to fix critical bugs. How many
release candidates do they expect to have?


Will there every be a Mozilla 1.0 or is it just going to be asymptotic to 1.0?

Everyone has seen goatse.cx, but there is something even google's image cache won't touch.

I can always set up a daemon to grab it, handle the overflows, plot it using rddtool,

You mean like this? By the way, rrdtool handles the overflow for you.

ok so mp3 is teh industry standard...

but it has been around for so long...

in my opinion Musepack (or MPC) which used to be called Mpegplus is by far the best codec for several reasons...

1. very high quality: for the most part even the standard setting for Musepack files is transparent to most people... and i dont mean about equal with 128k mp3... it is MUCH better.

2. ONE standard encoder: mp3 could be great, but there are so many different types of mp3... Xing, LAME, FhG, etc... they dont all sound the same... and with music on the net, there really is no way to tell what has encoded which file.

3. Low CPU usage: on my tests, decoding a MPC file (or playing a MPC file) uses less CPU power than playing or decoding even a MP3 file. thats something to say for use in portables, as for the most part companies dont want to sacrifice batteries like crazy for a faster more powerful cpu.

4. potential: MPC has come quite far since i have been around... and who knows where it will go. i know for a fact that stream version 8 is now being actively worked on. with this we will get support for multiple sampling rates and multiple chanels, along with a ton of other improvements. also there has recetly been started a p2p sharing of MPC files (visit http://aquaudio.yi.org/board for more info) and we already have winamp support and support in EAC and a slew of other programs.

5. (for now) its free: MPC decoder has always been free. and so has the encoder... with the completion of the software it is possible the (one) creator of the format will charge a small fee, as he has based some of his work on the sub band technologies patented by philips (i believe that is the company). i do believe however that there will never be a charge for playing the files and currently there is no red tape around the format (as there was with AAC).

personally i believe MPC has the best things going for it. sure maybe OGG is 100% free, but it uses more CPU power and is not completely developed yet (and because of its open nature the development is excrutiatingly slow). sure WMA is made by microsoft, but it has all sorts of red tape around it. AAC has great quality, but once again the red tape. sure mp3 has the support, but MPC is getting there...

people need to stop living in the past and hear what they have been missing.

for basic info on Musepack, please visit musepack.net and/or musepack.org (not yet completed).

There are a lot of people here that are criticizing UML.

It is important to remember that UML is not a panacea! It won't solve all of your problems. However, when combined with other proper design techniques it can be very valuable.

For example:

Check out my Reptile docs.

When combined with regular documentation, and linked to the Javadoc, these UML class diagrams REALLY help to clarify the system to newbies.

These were generated from source with Jase

The site was generated with Apache Velocity/Anakia and the Jase diagrams are generated with Ant every time I want to rebuild the site.

This allows us to produce a site that has up-to-date UML Class diagrams, javadoc, code snippets, etc and these are always up-to-date with the code that is in CVS.

cool... huh? :)

This is a good example of how UML can bring a lot to the picture.

There is a version being ported to Linux. Here is an excerpt:

WWIV/X 4.25 is a port of WWIV 4.24a for DOS to the Linux platform with additional code from WWIV 4.30 for DOS. It is based on the same code as WWIV for DOS, and significant portions of the code have remained intact. Eventually, we hope to integrate the new features of WWIV 4.30 into WWIV/X, but no timeline for that has been established.

Here is the link: http://kobran.yi.org/wwivx/index.html

-rr

Please excuse my ignorance here. But I take a huge performance hit when I use emacs beacuse I don't know how to do line folding. Let me explain (and excuse the simplistic example). Suppose a file with the following content:

the ability to have dynamic fonts (IE new face implementation)

a header line at the top of the file for additional inforation

support for tooltips (I am working on an intellisense package)

Resize of minibuffer windows

A fringe to the left and right of a buffer for metainfo.

Font colors can be used anywhere including the modeline, within completion, etc.

Cursors are updated if Emacs is busy

Tons more stuff. See the NEWS file in the dist for more information.

Also. I have written a ton of Emacs extensions that you guys might like.

You can also check out my Emacs bookmark which contain a lot of information.

the ability to have dynamic fonts (IE new face implementation)

a header line at the top of the file for additional inforation

support for tooltips (I am working on an intellisense package)

Resize of minibuffer windows

A fringe to the left and right of a buffer for metainfo.

Font colors can be used anywhere including the modeline, within completion, etc.

Cursors are updated if Emacs is busy

Tons more stuff. See the NEWS file in the dist for more information.

Also. I have written a ton of Emacs extensions that you guys might like.

You can also check out my Emacs bookmark which contain a lot of information.