Sometimes I like to use the spanish option for fun. I don't speak or understand most spanish, but I never have a problem getting through it to get some cash.
When I first got my drivers license, the "written" test was actually taken at a computer terminal. There was a long line at every one except for the spanish-language one. I asked what happened if one failed the test -- the DMV lady said that you could re-take it right then up to three times a day until you passed (obviously this is to ensure that there are plenty of dumbasses driving around for cops to be able to issue tickets)
Anyway, I had nothing to lose and hours of time to gain, so I sprang for the spanish test. It was multiple choice with lots of pictures.
Expect that this battery has several failsafe internal current limiters to prevent it from exploding in your face. Heck, even some lithium (not li-ion) 9V batteries have a little current limiter in them as they are easily shorted.
The proposed Secure Audio Path stuff requires Microsoft to sign and certify a driver that they feel is sufficiently providing a secure audio path. Although this is feasable with many older creative labs soundcards such as the SB Live! (where you could in theory put decryption code on the DSP and send only crypted data for playback), it's likely not possible for the SB16 device that most virtualizers choose to implement. In other words, there will probably never be a secure audio path driver for SB16 because the hardware is not capable of any kinds of security.
The workaround of course is to emulate more modern hardware or exploit the DRM in some other area of the windows kernel. Then there's always the possibility that MS will simply sign a SB16 driver to prevent customer complaints but thereby leaving a huge gaping hole in their system.
It reminds me of this whole recent airport security business.. TSA will happily tear through my baggage with their little wand and mass spectrometer (ask them; they don't even know what their $30K machine that does the testing is called) to look for explosives while bypassing explosives screening on every single golf bag that comes through. The reason? Golf bags come up positive for explosives on their initial tests very often because of fertilizers. When they do, they have to use a more expensive test to more specifically identify the concentrations and type of the residual -- This takes too much money and time, apparently for TSA to stomach, so the policy at some airports has been simply to bypass the check. Idiots.
IIRC at one point FX!32 was benchmarking better on Alpha under emulation than on the fastest X86 chip (This was when you could get something like 200MHz alphas while the fastest x86 chip was a 486DX2/66 or 80).. Even at a pretty achievable 50-60% speed after emulation overhead they were pulling ahead.
If you subscribe to the newspaper but you let them pile up on your doorstep and never read them, then why do you bother subscribing? That is wasteful. Do you at least recycle them?
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No the problem is the same magnitude. In this attack, the desire is not to find the source text that creates the hash but to find an alternate data set that results in the same SHA1 hash so that, for instance, you can sign data with what appears to be someone else's key even though you don't know the key pre-hashing... you just know another one that hashes to the same value.
Isn't the PSO hack for gamecube based on this flaw? And the other one for the XBox (Forgot what game).. Without lazy programmers, it would have taken far longer to crack these machines!
You can tunnel it over TCP using something like Zebedee. But then again you can tunnel pretty much anything.
For instance, the other "native-to-Asterisk protocol," TDMoE, uses raw Ethernet framing and is essentially non-routable, but you can tunnel it also using layer 2 bridging tunnels or Asterisk boxes as routers.
It's also worth mentioning that IAX would generally be a lot easier to make work over TCP than SIP or H.323 due to its single-connection mentality... That is at least if both SIP and H.323 did not already have TCP extensions or implementations, which they already do - just few devices support them.
Yes, I had only yesterday ordered a Xerox Phaser 6250DX with 4yr onsite service to supplant the HP4500. I had used Tektronix printers at a previous job, but at the time back when we needed a color printer, the Phasers weren't in the budget, but the 4500 made the cut. It also doubled as a decently fast B/W unit too, which was another requirement at the time. Another poster pointed out that the color printing is 4x more duty than B/W since it lays down toner in 4 passes... So my machine has about 600K effective pages.. I'd say it's been a good haul for it.
Ahh good point; I had not actually considered that it prints color with 4 passes of the drum. I went and got a pagecount from it just to satisfy my own curiosity:
126,690 Color
91,088 B/W 217,778 Total
597,848 Effective Pages... So seems about right for its level of squeakyness and performance. The output is still very crisp too, considering. It's replacement (Xerox Phaser 6250DX) is on the way, and it's single pass so hopefully we'll get a longer life out of it.
Total crap projectors have no correction for keystone at all.
Cheap projectors have digital keystone image-destroying correction. It's basically only good for video and you have to live with light spilling off of your screen onto the surroundings and not really being able to focus your image properly since part of the screen is closer than other parts.
Good projectors have lens shift which can throw the image (generally up to 50%) off-center using optics. For the life of me, I don't know who came up with this digital keystone stuff -- they could have implemented similar things just as inexpensively using a manually operated lens shift mechanism... *shrug*
You also don't really have to have a projector with keystone correction in order to do digital keystone correction. Any of the new NVidia cards can do all kinds of image manipulation with NVKeystone.
100K is nothing on them if you print regularly high volumes. OTOH 100K is a lot if you spread it out over a long time period.. It's the same with printers as it is with cars. If you drive 10,000 miles/month the motor is probably going to seem to last for more miles than a car that's only driven 1000 miles a month -- but the difference is actually the driver.
We have two B/W LaserJet 4100's that both see well over 200K pages/yr and are still going like tanks (even on aftermarket/refilled cartridges). One is 3 years old, one is 2 years old. The service interval is 200K pages. They work so well, I actually just ordered another paper tray for each of them today (they are growing in height every year!)
OTOH we also have a HP4500 color printer with 6 years of service and "only" about 200K pages that is in dubious shape. Although it rarely misfeeds, fails to print, or has any other problems, it squeaks a lot and is slow (though it's just as fast as it ever was). I think its main problem is users perceiving it to be old/broken rather than it actually being old/broken. It is honestly a lot more worn out than the others simply because it ends up working a lot harder to do a lot less than our 4100's, but I'd sure be happy to take it home whenever they decide to junk it!
Their surcharge policy is incredibly hypocritical. They allow a merchant to pass along credit card processing fees -- well, except when paypal processes the credit card. If they wanted to make that worthwhile, they should actually stand up and perform all those paypal services they advertise such as insuring the purchase.
It's very extremely dissapointing that the form factor chosen for these small PC's has pretty much exclusively been something toaster-sized. I understand that it fits well for a little luggable for lan parties and whatnot (especially with the top mounted handle) but they certainly don't make the most ideal HTPC. This one is really going for it and if it weren't 7" tall or so, I might consider it. how do you expect to fit this into an AV stack reasonably?
(Yes I know there are a few other manufacturers making the pizza-box sized units, but why shuttle refuses to produce one that holds their same latest-chipset, high performance cooling, etc. amazes me.)
For what it's worth most (well nearly all, actually) cars these days have electronic instruments. They are far from the mechanical linkages of of yesteryear. Even though they are analog guages, they are driven by a PWM signal on a wire.. The faster you go, the faster it pulses, the more voltage goes to the speedo.
It would be pretty easy to read the values with a microcontroller and then feed them to a PC or directly drive an LCD/VFD text-type display via serial, but I agree with you -- what's the real point? Why replace perfectly good guages with something distracting?
I have a car pc in my daily driver. It even has an OBD-II interface so I can log all kinds of engine stuff... but never once have I really felt the need to watch electronic guages while driving, nor have I felt that my OEM guagus were in any way lacking. In fact, I have tried everything to minimize driving distraction.
For a good way to integrate guagues with an auxillary information display in the instrument cluster, you might take a look at the Chrystler Pacifica (I think it's a minivan, but I'm not sure).. at any rate it has a pretty interesting dash -- the GPS/Nav/computer screen is in the middle of the speedometer. The speedo guage goes around the outside edge.
Oh yeah, I forgot the interesting tidbit: The string is also a legal.com file. If you save the ASCII text (without the space in between VIR and US) to a file, say, eicar.com and run it, it will print "EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!"
It's safe to do, but then again, don't take my word for running any precompiled code on your machine:) You could also go to the source.
The only way to reliably future proof home wiring is to run CONDUIT. Running fiber is all fine and good but then whenever you need it you are stuck with terminating it and then buying some expensive transceivers to get the type of connection you really need from it. By the time you do all this you could probably pay to have had a simpler solution retrofitted in.
Then there is the simpler problem: What if your drop box is in the wrong place?
I was going to post something about a big mechanical rotating cooker contraption requiring some kind of heating oil and whatnot, but I read this idea and it sounds freaking fantastic. It would likely result in some burned popcorn (ie when a popped kernel could not escape from the unpopped masses) and probalby some pretty pathetic tasting popcorn, but hey -- this stuff is to bury a building, not to eat! The oil left on popcorn cooked in it would not be the best thing for any building that it soiled anyway.
It would still be noisy and take a lot of time to get the volume required.. Best bet still would be to pre-pop the corn and truck it in. You could still use the plastic tube/air blower idea to move the popcorn from the trucks onto the structure though.
According to the MAME history file, Magic Bubble was released in 1993, a year ahead of Puzzle Bobble. However, there is no actual copyright date in the rom and no source listed for the date in the history file, so it could be inaccurate. It appears that Magic Bubble has some elements that could be ripped off from later versions of Puzzle Bobble -- but it could be the other way around also..
If you are building up a P4 3.0GHz machine and you need really fast AES (or whatever other crypto you might want) you probably have plenty of room for a dedicated PCI or Mini-PCI crypto accelerator which OpenBSD and others will also happily use!
If by "off the shelf" you mean "announced over a year ago and still not yet released but hopefully will be sometime before next year rolls around" then, yes, he did build it from "off the shelf" components.
De-Engrishing it, they mean that you can fast forward or rewind at up to 128 times normal speed. This really isn't applicable for computer-based playback as you can also arbitrarily seek, but on the unit itself, I'm sure it will do 128X ff/rw.
Sorry, I meant to link mod_bt instead. Using mod_bt and probably some mod_perl you could do the automatic/transparent directory -> torrent thing pretty easily. mod_bt does actually exist and work apparently, though it's apache2 only..
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Sometimes I like to use the spanish option for fun. I don't speak or understand most spanish, but I never have a problem getting through it to get some cash.
When I first got my drivers license, the "written" test was actually taken at a computer terminal. There was a long line at every one except for the spanish-language one. I asked what happened if one failed the test -- the DMV lady said that you could re-take it right then up to three times a day until you passed (obviously this is to ensure that there are plenty of dumbasses driving around for cops to be able to issue tickets)
Anyway, I had nothing to lose and hours of time to gain, so I sprang for the spanish test. It was multiple choice with lots of pictures.
Expect that this battery has several failsafe internal current limiters to prevent it from exploding in your face. Heck, even some lithium (not li-ion) 9V batteries have a little current limiter in them as they are easily shorted.
The proposed Secure Audio Path stuff requires Microsoft to sign and certify a driver that they feel is sufficiently providing a secure audio path. Although this is feasable with many older creative labs soundcards such as the SB Live! (where you could in theory put decryption code on the DSP and send only crypted data for playback), it's likely not possible for the SB16 device that most virtualizers choose to implement. In other words, there will probably never be a secure audio path driver for SB16 because the hardware is not capable of any kinds of security.
The workaround of course is to emulate more modern hardware or exploit the DRM in some other area of the windows kernel. Then there's always the possibility that MS will simply sign a SB16 driver to prevent customer complaints but thereby leaving a huge gaping hole in their system.
It reminds me of this whole recent airport security business.. TSA will happily tear through my baggage with their little wand and mass spectrometer (ask them; they don't even know what their $30K machine that does the testing is called) to look for explosives while bypassing explosives screening on every single golf bag that comes through. The reason? Golf bags come up positive for explosives on their initial tests very often because of fertilizers. When they do, they have to use a more expensive test to more specifically identify the concentrations and type of the residual -- This takes too much money and time, apparently for TSA to stomach, so the policy at some airports has been simply to bypass the check. Idiots.
Indeed.
IIRC at one point FX!32 was benchmarking better on Alpha under emulation than on the fastest X86 chip (This was when you could get something like 200MHz alphas while the fastest x86 chip was a 486DX2/66 or 80).. Even at a pretty achievable 50-60% speed after emulation overhead they were pulling ahead.
If you subscribe to the newspaper but you let them pile up on your doorstep and never read them, then why do you bother subscribing? That is wasteful. Do you at least recycle them?
No the problem is the same magnitude. In this attack, the desire is not to find the source text that creates the hash but to find an alternate data set that results in the same SHA1 hash so that, for instance, you can sign data with what appears to be someone else's key even though you don't know the key pre-hashing... you just know another one that hashes to the same value.
And strenghts!
Isn't the PSO hack for gamecube based on this flaw? And the other one for the XBox (Forgot what game).. Without lazy programmers, it would have taken far longer to crack these machines!
Sorry but IAX is UDP, boss.
You can tunnel it over TCP using something like Zebedee. But then again you can tunnel pretty much anything.
For instance, the other "native-to-Asterisk protocol," TDMoE, uses raw Ethernet framing and is essentially non-routable, but you can tunnel it also using layer 2 bridging tunnels or Asterisk boxes as routers.
It's also worth mentioning that IAX would generally be a lot easier to make work over TCP than SIP or H.323 due to its single-connection mentality... That is at least if both SIP and H.323 did not already have TCP extensions or implementations, which they already do - just few devices support them.
Yes, I had only yesterday ordered a Xerox Phaser 6250DX with 4yr onsite service to supplant the HP4500. I had used Tektronix printers at a previous job, but at the time back when we needed a color printer, the Phasers weren't in the budget, but the 4500 made the cut. It also doubled as a decently fast B/W unit too, which was another requirement at the time. Another poster pointed out that the color printing is 4x more duty than B/W since it lays down toner in 4 passes... So my machine has about 600K effective pages.. I'd say it's been a good haul for it.
Ahh good point; I had not actually considered that it prints color with 4 passes of the drum. I went and got a pagecount from it just to satisfy my own curiosity:
126,690 Color
91,088 B/W
217,778 Total
597,848 Effective Pages... So seems about right for its level of squeakyness and performance. The output is still very crisp too, considering. It's replacement (Xerox Phaser 6250DX) is on the way, and it's single pass so hopefully we'll get a longer life out of it.
A minor point here:
Total crap projectors have no correction for keystone at all.
Cheap projectors have digital keystone image-destroying correction. It's basically only good for video and you have to live with light spilling off of your screen onto the surroundings and not really being able to focus your image properly since part of the screen is closer than other parts.
Good projectors have lens shift which can throw the image (generally up to 50%) off-center using optics. For the life of me, I don't know who came up with this digital keystone stuff -- they could have implemented similar things just as inexpensively using a manually operated lens shift mechanism... *shrug*
You also don't really have to have a projector with keystone correction in order to do digital keystone correction. Any of the new NVidia cards can do all kinds of image manipulation with NVKeystone.
100K is nothing on them if you print regularly high volumes. OTOH 100K is a lot if you spread it out over a long time period.. It's the same with printers as it is with cars. If you drive 10,000 miles/month the motor is probably going to seem to last for more miles than a car that's only driven 1000 miles a month -- but the difference is actually the driver.
We have two B/W LaserJet 4100's that both see well over 200K pages/yr and are still going like tanks (even on aftermarket/refilled cartridges). One is 3 years old, one is 2 years old. The service interval is 200K pages. They work so well, I actually just ordered another paper tray for each of them today (they are growing in height every year!)
OTOH we also have a HP4500 color printer with 6 years of service and "only" about 200K pages that is in dubious shape. Although it rarely misfeeds, fails to print, or has any other problems, it squeaks a lot and is slow (though it's just as fast as it ever was). I think its main problem is users perceiving it to be old/broken rather than it actually being old/broken. It is honestly a lot more worn out than the others simply because it ends up working a lot harder to do a lot less than our 4100's, but I'd sure be happy to take it home whenever they decide to junk it!
Their surcharge policy is incredibly hypocritical. They allow a merchant to pass along credit card processing fees -- well, except when paypal processes the credit card. If they wanted to make that worthwhile, they should actually stand up and perform all those paypal services they advertise such as insuring the purchase.
It's very extremely dissapointing that the form factor chosen for these small PC's has pretty much exclusively been something toaster-sized. I understand that it fits well for a little luggable for lan parties and whatnot (especially with the top mounted handle) but they certainly don't make the most ideal HTPC. This one is really going for it and if it weren't 7" tall or so, I might consider it. how do you expect to fit this into an AV stack reasonably?
(Yes I know there are a few other manufacturers making the pizza-box sized units, but why shuttle refuses to produce one that holds their same latest-chipset, high performance cooling, etc. amazes me.)
For what it's worth most (well nearly all, actually) cars these days have electronic instruments. They are far from the mechanical linkages of of yesteryear. Even though they are analog guages, they are driven by a PWM signal on a wire.. The faster you go, the faster it pulses, the more voltage goes to the speedo.
.. at any rate it has a pretty interesting dash -- the GPS/Nav/computer screen is in the middle of the speedometer. The speedo guage goes around the outside edge.
It would be pretty easy to read the values with a microcontroller and then feed them to a PC or directly drive an LCD/VFD text-type display via serial, but I agree with you -- what's the real point? Why replace perfectly good guages with something distracting?
I have a car pc in my daily driver. It even has an OBD-II interface so I can log all kinds of engine stuff... but never once have I really felt the need to watch electronic guages while driving, nor have I felt that my OEM guagus were in any way lacking. In fact, I have tried everything to minimize driving distraction.
For a good way to integrate guagues with an auxillary information display in the instrument cluster, you might take a look at the Chrystler Pacifica (I think it's a minivan, but I'm not sure)
Oh yeah, I forgot the interesting tidbit: The string is also a legal .com file. If you save the ASCII text (without the space in between VIR and US) to a file, say, eicar.com and run it, it will print "EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!"
:) You could also go to the source.
It's safe to do, but then again, don't take my word for running any precompiled code on your machine
Did it actually catch it? Slashdot forces a space in there so it generally makes it fail..
The only way to reliably future proof home wiring is to run CONDUIT. Running fiber is all fine and good but then whenever you need it you are stuck with terminating it and then buying some expensive transceivers to get the type of connection you really need from it. By the time you do all this you could probably pay to have had a simpler solution retrofitted in.
Then there is the simpler problem: What if your drop box is in the wrong place?
I was going to post something about a big mechanical rotating cooker contraption requiring some kind of heating oil and whatnot, but I read this idea and it sounds freaking fantastic. It would likely result in some burned popcorn (ie when a popped kernel could not escape from the unpopped masses) and probalby some pretty pathetic tasting popcorn, but hey -- this stuff is to bury a building, not to eat! The oil left on popcorn cooked in it would not be the best thing for any building that it soiled anyway.
It would still be noisy and take a lot of time to get the volume required.. Best bet still would be to pre-pop the corn and truck it in. You could still use the plastic tube/air blower idea to move the popcorn from the trucks onto the structure though.
According to the MAME history file, Magic Bubble was released in 1993, a year ahead of Puzzle Bobble. However, there is no actual copyright date in the rom and no source listed for the date in the history file, so it could be inaccurate. It appears that Magic Bubble has some elements that could be ripped off from later versions of Puzzle Bobble -- but it could be the other way around also..
for what it's worth...
If you are building up a P4 3.0GHz machine and you need really fast AES (or whatever other crypto you might want) you probably have plenty of room for a dedicated PCI or Mini-PCI crypto accelerator which OpenBSD and others will also happily use!
If by "off the shelf" you mean "announced over a year ago and still not yet released but hopefully will be sometime before next year rolls around" then, yes, he did build it from "off the shelf" components.
"This is a live demonstration"..."this EPS file is really coming off of a Mac which is why it takes a second. The Mac's a little slow to give it up."
De-Engrishing it, they mean that you can fast forward or rewind at up to 128 times normal speed. This really isn't applicable for computer-based playback as you can also arbitrarily seek, but on the unit itself, I'm sure it will do 128X ff/rw.
Sorry, I meant to link mod_bt instead. Using mod_bt and probably some mod_perl you could do the automatic/transparent directory -> torrent thing pretty easily. mod_bt does actually exist and work apparently, though it's apache2 only..