Wasn't it supposed to be called Jini? A java (which as we know, runs everywhere, in any JVM) based thingy which can talk to everyone and know who does what where when and how? Isn't apples rendevous trying to do something like this, but much stripped down?
Incase you missed Wired a month ago, Real is moving to rent you a TV like subscription over your broadband internet connection. (sorry to cross post, i posted to the wrong mozilla tab:)
You pay them 20$/month to have basically cable tv on demand. Now where does this leave bandwidth limited cable subscribers? In the dark, but DSL people should be streaming away happily. So you give away the sourcecode to your decoders, get mplayer and all the cool software to use it, and use it well. Now you have an installed base to sell product too. Very wise move if you ask me.
Read wired this month. Real is moving to rent you a TV like subscription that you can use over your broadband internet connection. Broadcast tv will be streamed into your computer. Now in order to do this you need a play which doesn't suck on as many platforms as possible, so why not open the source up? This is very cool for us, however there is still sound business behind it. (Or maybe last months Wired)
Either way, pretty cool. Now remind me again why RealOne EXPIRED on me? After reading that article in Wired i thought Real had become Hip to whats out there. Then RealOne suddenly stopped playing content? Hello? I'm on a modem and am *not* going to wait for a 6 meg download to happen so i can watch my own content.
At least in canada. I was in a SonyStyle store in Vancouver somewhere (I live in SoCal, so forgive the lack if location knowledge) and Sony was selling a VAIO equiped with video in/out, TV tuner, etc, advertised as having full PVR capabilities. Seeing as Sony ships actual set top PVR's, this doesn't surprise me in the least. I was literally completely absorbed staring at it, that i missed that my girlfriend had whacked, and really hurt, her elbow on some shelf unit in there. That was no good, let me tell you. Don't ever lose track of girlfriend while oggling reallycooltech.
Even when they do successfully run a story, notice how the story is presented by the same slant from almost all media sources. What good does that do us?
Notice how at the top of most of the stories you read it says AP or Reuters? That would be why they all have the same slant, same story, same journalist, etc. Now while i agree that the need for AP/Reuters exists, your local cali newpaper can't afford to cover issues in DC, as is the converse, however some stories would be better reported by several different journalists. Never happen though, hard to drum up the other 90% of a newpaper page for the little chunks of articles they use to fill the gaps.
You know something, We have G4 TiBooks here at work that i've used heavily. I have never noticed a problem with battery life. I can use it easily for 3 hours if i'm not watching a DVD or something. 4 if i'm not doing heavy load work, even with the airport card running. The power saving features on them add up very quickly, especially dimming the LCD and engaging processor cycling, and because it's a G4, you don't notice the slowdown that much, because it's fast anyways.
Now with that said, i would love to see 12hour batteries, and 6hour dvd players. Would be very cool.
Last I checked, if someone reviewed that preteen image of harrison, they are now liable for a federal prison term, and a hefty fine. Isn't that mentioned in this very article? (And in the print of Wired for that matter)
If the school blocks the port for Kazaa or Half Life the school loses their internet connection. Pretty tough, but they have strong feelings that the internet should not be censored. I agree with them even if it makes things difficult somethings.
Welcome to the world of Traffic Shaping. Look at the MRTG graphs of UCSB's resnet, 40mbit at 75% constantly. I was just up there this weekend setting up my girlfriends XP machine, and i was reading their traffic shaping policy. If you ever want to be able to do ReallyFast inet there, try using HTTP. It's at the top of the list. They say they have "dedicated traffic" for people to play games on, unfortunatly, its on the same traffic as FTP and streaming audio/video, so the connection to like Battlenet is lagged, and my Digitally imported stream cut out every so often. Of course, at the bottom of the list is P2P, which really is where it does belong. (The major traffic hogs, which aren't really that educational, get put at the bottom of the pecking order, below the "more legitamite" online gaming, and generic web surfing)
The other thing i noticed, was during sign up, you plugged in your computer, and i expected to get a DHCP lease right off, well i did, so i used e-mail to check the connection, little did i know i needed to open up a web browser so i could see/sign their AUP. I was then told to shutdown my computer, rebooting wouldn't work, etc, in order to go online. run ipconfig/release &&/renew, BAM, inet works.
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I don't get what the big deal is, so long as nothing was off-hook. There have been multiple times when i've been holding RJ-11 in my mouth and zapped my tounge. The first few times it took me a minute to realize what "that cool tingling sensation" was on my tounge. I'm only a few brain cells short because of it too.:)
When my dad was diagnosed with asthma (as everyone in my immediate family has been) the Doc gave him an inhaler to try out and teach him how to use etc. "now the first few times you do this it's going to taste like diesel fuel", however after taking his two hits my dad looked him straight in the eye and said it tastes nothing like diesel fuel. The doctor stood there staring at him not knowing what to say for a minute before mumbling something about how he was using the inhaler right and to come back in month or so, then walked out.
And yes, my dad does know what diesel fuel tastes like.
I have been pushing sites which don't work with mozilla to shape up recently. However, the other thing i have been doing, is adding more and more Agent: Mozilla 1.0 tags to their logs. Remember, numbers and statistics are what the boss understands, not technobabble and The Right Thing to do.
At friends houses (ones with DSL mostly) I have been offering to install Mozilla. Most of the time all i have to show them is tabbed browsing, and the "blue modern" theme and they love it. I have even had success at selling it on a college librarian, who while not an uber-geek, likes to learn and be able to do things. She picked up all the little intricacies of mozilla in minutes and was loving it. When i went back over to one of my friends house, he had replaced IE with mozilla as the default he liked it so much.
With that being said, i've also managed to get the little CyberCafe/computer store place i workat/hangoutat to install OpenOffice.org and Mozilla on all the new PC's he sells. The owner of that store is anything but technically literate, but can be taught very easily (eager to learn), he's a manager. He picked up OpenOffice.org very quickly, and saw the appeal after about the third time he asked me "how much does this cost again?".
Interesting fact: i have seen "ethernet switches" sold which have collision lights. It makes me wonder how dumb the network cards are by that comapany that they can't get their own carrier detection right.:) Either that or they are selling to the masses something which doesn't do actual switching, or has such a pitiful buffer that it still needs a collision light.
Disclaimer: I am a CCNA, however i saw my classmates for who they were. A trained monkey could pass those classes.
Ever benchmarked an 800Mhz G4? or even a 400Mhz G4 Ti laptop? Those things fly a hell of a lot faster than the Mhz would suggest, and if anyone would write games at the Altivec core, they would also fly. See the numbers a 400Mhz G4 dnetc client runs at, and then compare them to my 1.3Ghz AMD. The G4 beats out my computer by about a Gkey/sec. I am so glad to see AMD build a chip which is more efficient with the time it has (800million clock cycles/second:). That little Ti laptop renders video much better than anything i have here in windows. Maybe now i will be able to beat my Mac head friends at Photoshop renders;-) (btw, OSX++)
I would like to thank the developers who have made it possible for me to have a responsive, fast, and non-memory hogging webbrowser for both OS X (Especially!) and my other FreeBSD machine.
IE was so slow and cludgy it took forever to get anything done, and Netscape 6 in all it's glory just used too much CPU and Memory to get anything done. This launches quickly, and does everything i want it to! Great Job:) (and heck, much better than the milestones i tried out a year ago too:)
Well i sure hope they come out with a DVORAK version of those QWERTY wipes. Then again, my dvorak keyboard would probably only have my germs on it because anyone else wanting to use it would run away screaming after a few minutes on it.
I've seen someone on the web which has made the BFPG10k (big fucking potato gun10k). I can't find the site right now, but they were blowing up watermelons with potatoes.
Last i checked, in junior high school i did learn how to program a computer. Sure it was an Apple ][, but this was only 6 years ago. *then* students were allowed to take the computer apps course. And the first day of that course the teacher took apart a Macintosh LC II and taught us what each part did and how it worked. Sure it wasn't "this part modulates the electricity into etc." but it was "the hard drive uses a magnet to write data onto the hard drive, the same way a floppy drive does". Schools keep catering to the lowest common denominator, and you know something? That's wrong. There need to be classes for the dumb kids, and the retarded kids, but the average kids need to be forced to use their heads more.
Why not a slashbox with a search field? You can enter in your zip+4 and it spits back your local reps in state/fed government system on whatever that website is that does that. Along with a link for zip+4 lookup (type in address/city/state it gives you +4 for those like 2 geeks that don't know their +4;-)
What i think you're looking for is the jail(8) stuffs for FreeBSD. It lets you boot an entire computer from within a computer. You can then SSH into that computer, etc. With proper setup end non-root users will be very hard pressed to figure out they are in a virtual machine rather than a real one.
Are you in jail? -If you have unrestricted `ps` capabilities, there will be no 'init' process. -`df` will show you some procps file systems (4k apeice) mounted under the name of your server or whereever your server was booted from.
Anyone see this as a HUGE DMCA case? Similar to the DeCSS case? If you bypass their copy protection scheme by interpolating over the pops and clicks, even if "normal" cd players do this anyways, wouldn't you be violating their supposed rights, and thus get to sue you?
A) Be good friends with teachers who are just as ticked at Bess as you are. They will give those they trust their override passwords. This requires that you also don't go using that password to download smut. Just good things, like the old everything.blockstackers.com, which was blocked by bess, but not [E2], funny.
B) Have SSH access to a computer off campus, and alot of patience. Sometimes your ports are blocked off for common ones like 20-23, 80, 6665-7000, etc. But with proper configuration, and routeable IP, you can normally get "off the network" via SSH. Next task is to configure Port Forwarding, something which comes standard with SSHd, ssh, and SecureCRT. Simply add a port forward to port 80 of wherever you want to connect, and translate that to a local port (like 81), making sure not to overlap local ports. Now, configure your browser to ignore the proxy for hosts beginning in 127.0.0.1, then connect to 127.0.0.1:81. Why not use localhost? because `hosts' can be configured to redirect that elsewhere, and thats a bad thing. Pitfall? if the people use a seperate server for images and such, you're SOL, because you can't redirect where the refs inside the web pages go, and only relative links work.
I imagine when you are porting something to an entire new CPU you would probably have to compile it alot of times. Its not like you are just making a new kernel for that spiffy new SCSI card.
Would be interesting to see what the compile rate for devel kernels.
I *think*, but dont quote me on this, that Flash 4 (maybe 3) can interact with Javascript, but fortunatly enough, any sort of system call with Javascript (in netscape at least) seems to load up the entire Java subsystem, and you get a handy little warning box telling you exactly what the program wants to do. I do not know if it can interact with VBS in IE5, i hope it wont to keep the portability that Flash seems to maintain (read: Java player would have problems with VBS in linux)
cept for the fact that on average, blocking a simple x.x.x.* will nuke that dynamic user, along with 253 potential other users (assume one subnet). The legal teams know this, so does napster, i can see them trying to enforce a block on 24.*.*.* because its the ip block the cable modems use. or 63.*.*.* because alot of DSL customers have one in that range. good luck with your dynamic ip.
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Wasn't it supposed to be called Jini? A java (which as we know, runs everywhere, in any JVM) based thingy which can talk to everyone and know who does what where when and how? Isn't apples rendevous trying to do something like this, but much stripped down?
Incase you missed Wired a month ago, Real is moving to rent you a TV like subscription over your broadband internet connection. (sorry to cross post, i posted to the wrong mozilla tab :)
You pay them 20$/month to have basically cable tv on demand. Now where does this leave bandwidth limited cable subscribers? In the dark, but DSL people should be streaming away happily. So you give away the sourcecode to your decoders, get mplayer and all the cool software to use it, and use it well. Now you have an installed base to sell product too. Very wise move if you ask me.
Read wired this month. Real is moving to rent you a TV like subscription that you can use over your broadband internet connection. Broadcast tv will be streamed into your computer. Now in order to do this you need a play which doesn't suck on as many platforms as possible, so why not open the source up? This is very cool for us, however there is still sound business behind it. (Or maybe last months Wired)
Either way, pretty cool. Now remind me again why RealOne EXPIRED on me? After reading that article in Wired i thought Real had become Hip to whats out there. Then RealOne suddenly stopped playing content? Hello? I'm on a modem and am *not* going to wait for a 6 meg download to happen so i can watch my own content.
Sony's got it.
At least in canada. I was in a SonyStyle store in Vancouver somewhere (I live in SoCal, so forgive the lack if location knowledge) and Sony was selling a VAIO equiped with video in/out, TV tuner, etc, advertised as having full PVR capabilities. Seeing as Sony ships actual set top PVR's, this doesn't surprise me in the least. I was literally completely absorbed staring at it, that i missed that my girlfriend had whacked, and really hurt, her elbow on some shelf unit in there. That was no good, let me tell you. Don't ever lose track of girlfriend while oggling reallycooltech.
Even when they do successfully run a story, notice how the story is presented by the same slant from almost all media sources. What good does that do us?
Notice how at the top of most of the stories you read it says AP or Reuters? That would be why they all have the same slant, same story, same journalist, etc. Now while i agree that the need for AP/Reuters exists, your local cali newpaper can't afford to cover issues in DC, as is the converse, however some stories would be better reported by several different journalists. Never happen though, hard to drum up the other 90% of a newpaper page for the little chunks of articles they use to fill the gaps.
You know something, We have G4 TiBooks here at work that i've used heavily. I have never noticed a problem with battery life. I can use it easily for 3 hours if i'm not watching a DVD or something. 4 if i'm not doing heavy load work, even with the airport card running. The power saving features on them add up very quickly, especially dimming the LCD and engaging processor cycling, and because it's a G4, you don't notice the slowdown that much, because it's fast anyways.
Now with that said, i would love to see 12hour batteries, and 6hour dvd players. Would be very cool.
Like advertising the cripser, better quality of a DVD on a VHS tape? ;-)
Last I checked, if someone reviewed that preteen image of harrison, they are now liable for a federal prison term, and a hefty fine. Isn't that mentioned in this very article? (And in the print of Wired for that matter)
But wait! The MPAA is above the law, i forgot.
If the school blocks the port for Kazaa or Half Life the school loses their internet connection. Pretty tough, but they have strong feelings that the internet should not be censored. I agree with them even if it makes things difficult somethings.
/release && /renew, BAM, inet works.
Welcome to the world of Traffic Shaping. Look at the MRTG graphs of UCSB's resnet, 40mbit at 75% constantly. I was just up there this weekend setting up my girlfriends XP machine, and i was reading their traffic shaping policy. If you ever want to be able to do ReallyFast inet there, try using HTTP. It's at the top of the list. They say they have "dedicated traffic" for people to play games on, unfortunatly, its on the same traffic as FTP and streaming audio/video, so the connection to like Battlenet is lagged, and my Digitally imported stream cut out every so often. Of course, at the bottom of the list is P2P, which really is where it does belong. (The major traffic hogs, which aren't really that educational, get put at the bottom of the pecking order, below the "more legitamite" online gaming, and generic web surfing)
The other thing i noticed, was during sign up, you plugged in your computer, and i expected to get a DHCP lease right off, well i did, so i used e-mail to check the connection, little did i know i needed to open up a web browser so i could see/sign their AUP. I was then told to shutdown my computer, rebooting wouldn't work, etc, in order to go online. run ipconfig
I don't get what the big deal is, so long as nothing was off-hook. There have been multiple times when i've been holding RJ-11 in my mouth and zapped my tounge. The first few times it took me a minute to realize what "that cool tingling sensation" was on my tounge. I'm only a few brain cells short because of it too. :)
When my dad was diagnosed with asthma (as everyone in my immediate family has been) the Doc gave him an inhaler to try out and teach him how to use etc. "now the first few times you do this it's going to taste like diesel fuel", however after taking his two hits my dad looked him straight in the eye and said it tastes nothing like diesel fuel. The doctor stood there staring at him not knowing what to say for a minute before mumbling something about how he was using the inhaler right and to come back in month or so, then walked out.
And yes, my dad does know what diesel fuel tastes like.
I have been pushing sites which don't work with mozilla to shape up recently. However, the other thing i have been doing, is adding more and more Agent: Mozilla 1.0 tags to their logs. Remember, numbers and statistics are what the boss understands, not technobabble and The Right Thing to do.
At friends houses (ones with DSL mostly) I have been offering to install Mozilla. Most of the time all i have to show them is tabbed browsing, and the "blue modern" theme and they love it. I have even had success at selling it on a college librarian, who while not an uber-geek, likes to learn and be able to do things. She picked up all the little intricacies of mozilla in minutes and was loving it. When i went back over to one of my friends house, he had replaced IE with mozilla as the default he liked it so much.
With that being said, i've also managed to get the little CyberCafe/computer store place i workat/hangoutat to install OpenOffice.org and Mozilla on all the new PC's he sells. The owner of that store is anything but technically literate, but can be taught very easily (eager to learn), he's a manager. He picked up OpenOffice.org very quickly, and saw the appeal after about the third time he asked me "how much does this cost again?".
I find your post funny :)
:) Either that or they are selling to the masses something which doesn't do actual switching, or has such a pitiful buffer that it still needs a collision light.
Interesting fact: i have seen "ethernet switches" sold which have collision lights. It makes me wonder how dumb the network cards are by that comapany that they can't get their own carrier detection right.
Disclaimer: I am a CCNA, however i saw my classmates for who they were. A trained monkey could pass those classes.
Ever benchmarked an 800Mhz G4? or even a 400Mhz G4 Ti laptop? Those things fly a hell of a lot faster than the Mhz would suggest, and if anyone would write games at the Altivec core, they would also fly. See the numbers a 400Mhz G4 dnetc client runs at, and then compare them to my 1.3Ghz AMD. The G4 beats out my computer by about a Gkey/sec. I am so glad to see AMD build a chip which is more efficient with the time it has (800million clock cycles/second :). That little Ti laptop renders video much better than anything i have here in windows. Maybe now i will be able to beat my Mac head friends at Photoshop renders ;-) (btw, OSX++)
I would like to thank the developers who have made it possible for me to have a responsive, fast, and non-memory hogging webbrowser for both OS X (Especially!) and my other FreeBSD machine.
:) (and heck, much better than the milestones i tried out a year ago too :)
IE was so slow and cludgy it took forever to get anything done, and Netscape 6 in all it's glory just used too much CPU and Memory to get anything done. This launches quickly, and does everything i want it to! Great Job
Well i sure hope they come out with a DVORAK version of those QWERTY wipes. Then again, my dvorak keyboard would probably only have my germs on it because anyone else wanting to use it would run away screaming after a few minutes on it.
I've seen someone on the web which has made the BFPG10k (big fucking potato gun10k). I can't find the site right now, but they were blowing up watermelons with potatoes.
Last i checked, in junior high school i did learn how to program a computer. Sure it was an Apple ][, but this was only 6 years ago. *then* students were allowed to take the computer apps course. And the first day of that course the teacher took apart a Macintosh LC II and taught us what each part did and how it worked. Sure it wasn't "this part modulates the electricity into etc." but it was "the hard drive uses a magnet to write data onto the hard drive, the same way a floppy drive does". Schools keep catering to the lowest common denominator, and you know something? That's wrong. There need to be classes for the dumb kids, and the retarded kids, but the average kids need to be forced to use their heads more.
Why not a slashbox with a search field? You can enter in your zip+4 and it spits back your local reps in state/fed government system on whatever that website is that does that. Along with a link for zip+4 lookup (type in address/city/state it gives you +4 for those like 2 geeks that don't know their +4 ;-)
What i think you're looking for is the jail(8) stuffs for FreeBSD. It lets you boot an entire computer from within a computer. You can then SSH into that computer, etc. With proper setup end non-root users will be very hard pressed to figure out they are in a virtual machine rather than a real one.
Are you in jail?
-If you have unrestricted `ps` capabilities, there will be no 'init' process.
-`df` will show you some procps file systems (4k apeice) mounted under the name of your server or whereever your server was booted from.
Anyone see this as a HUGE DMCA case? Similar to the DeCSS case? If you bypass their copy protection scheme by interpolating over the pops and clicks, even if "normal" cd players do this anyways, wouldn't you be violating their supposed rights, and thus get to sue you?
A) Be good friends with teachers who are just as ticked at Bess as you are. They will give those they trust their override passwords. This requires that you also don't go using that password to download smut. Just good things, like the old everything.blockstackers.com, which was blocked by bess, but not [E2], funny.
B) Have SSH access to a computer off campus, and alot of patience. Sometimes your ports are blocked off for common ones like 20-23, 80, 6665-7000, etc. But with proper configuration, and routeable IP, you can normally get "off the network" via SSH. Next task is to configure Port Forwarding, something which comes standard with SSHd, ssh, and SecureCRT. Simply add a port forward to port 80 of wherever you want to connect, and translate that to a local port (like 81), making sure not to overlap local ports. Now, configure your browser to ignore the proxy for hosts beginning in 127.0.0.1, then connect to 127.0.0.1:81. Why not use localhost? because `hosts' can be configured to redirect that elsewhere, and thats a bad thing. Pitfall? if the people use a seperate server for images and such, you're SOL, because you can't redirect where the refs inside the web pages go, and only relative links work.
I imagine when you are porting something to an entire new CPU you would probably have to compile it alot of times. Its not like you are just making a new kernel for that spiffy new SCSI card.
Would be interesting to see what the compile rate for devel kernels.
I *think*, but dont quote me on this, that Flash 4 (maybe 3) can interact with Javascript, but fortunatly enough, any sort of system call with Javascript (in netscape at least) seems to load up the entire Java subsystem, and you get a handy little warning box telling you exactly what the program wants to do. I do not know if it can interact with VBS in IE5, i hope it wont to keep the portability that Flash seems to maintain (read: Java player would have problems with VBS in linux)
cept for the fact that on average, blocking a simple x.x.x.* will nuke that dynamic user, along with 253 potential other users (assume one subnet). The legal teams know this, so does napster, i can see them trying to enforce a block on 24.*.*.* because its the ip block the cable modems use. or 63.*.*.* because alot of DSL customers have one in that range. good luck with your dynamic ip.