I heard that some of the older cuecats came with TV cables, infact... I have two cuecats and both came with a book saying there was a TV cable, but neither came with one. Does anyone know how this is done?
What would be interesting is a television ad service based on barcodes. If you buy a product, you could scan the barcode to block advertisements for the product (since you are already a customer)... that would be pretty neat, then the commercial could be either removed so you can get to your show quicker.. or be fed an ad which is not blocked.
Drool,
really.. I think that people should start sending me their old hardware, I'm a complete hardware freak:) The best I've ever manged to get was a 25mhz 486sx/w MCA from a hospitol dumpster... there had been an AS/400 but it was already striped before i got there:(
This would be great to have in the states, but do they provide a method to change the software on the phones.. and provide the source to the software? I really wouldn't trust anything like this without know that I would be safe from backdoors!
Can we really trust a company to Do The Right ThingTM? Sure, even with a backdoor.. this will keep you from being spied on by your kid sister, but what about Big Brother?
We must demand that our devices using encryption MUST be open enough that we can verify our freedom.
As I run Linux exclusively on my machines, as I was shopping for a laptop I was in the market for hardware.. not platform. I looked around at all the machines... even apple.
It eventually came down between a Sony Vaio, a Compaq 1700, and the Apple PowerBook Pismo. The greatest deciding factor was that it had the best laptop keyboard i've ever seen.. infact, after using the keyboard for several months and using my friend's Compaq 1700... I was so glad that I had gotten my powerbook.
Sorry to sound a like a commercial, but it really is the best IMHO; and you get firewire:)
It is also great to have a PowerPC chip... good to get experience with other architectures.. although this can be a pain at times (some stuff doesnt run, usually due to endianess)
If you don't need windows and care about your hands, i'd say go for it.
Linux is a lot easier for powerusers.. Windows just doesn't have the functionality that Unix does. I cannot use a machine without a powerful CLI... to imagine the insanity of having a GUI tool for a file-manager, just horrid.
Some people have realized that a GUI is castration, sure the usage is obvious.. but whats the point if it isn't powerful enough to be useful?
Not saying that The One Unix WayTM is good for everyone, but for some anything less would just drive them to a mental hospital.
AMD's PowerNow will do this too, both AMD and Intel have had CPU throttling in their cpus for a while.. be it for power or heat concerns, it has been around.
I suspect that the P4 is already running faster then it should, I remember stories about Intel boasting about how they could overclock their chips to different speeds a while back.
Anyhow, this isn't a big deal.. who wants their processor burning up anyhow?
One design flaw (IMHO) is that all of the user applications on the machine are written in C++, due to the embedded design of the software.. C may have reduced the footprint required to "push" the applications, but that is my opinion..you don't have to agree:)
The graphics toolkit (C++) they are using is very cross platform, perhaps they decided to use it incase they would later decide to move to WinCE?? It is called FLTK. The machine itself runs XFree86, so all of your existing X11 applications should run fine; although the screensize may be a little limiting.
This platform just needs optimizations, they are using very open technologies and opened it up to developers, infact.. most of the software is already on most linux machines!
As far as the WindowManager is concerned, it is FLWM.. of course based on this high-level graphics library. For speed's sake, there are definately much "lighter" windowmanagers out there! A modification of RatPoison or ION would be perfect for this device, much cleaner.. faster..
It shouldn't take much to make this a much faster machine, just remove all the applications shipped with it!:) Theys guys didn't really know what they were doing on the speed-side but they did make a good peice of hardware.
It is a good writeup.. if it is true that you did write the content, which I do believe considering the contrast between the professionalism of the writeup vs Tom's site.. then perhaps you should write an email to Tom requesting that he directly links to your page instead of providing a hacked copy of it on his page.
If you really wanted, I'm sure you could sue him as he does claim he wrote it according to the header (although the header is on all of his pages).
Just for those of you interested.. the exact page(s) on apple-history.com which is suspect is here
The text does look a little too professional for Tom's site.. but apple-history.com is not the most professional of sites either. Someone is lying, not that I really care who it is:)
I was looking for some information on the history of Apple today, for ammunition against some trolls lurking on irc.. I found this page, when I saw this link.. I realized that the history section is lifted directly off of the page I had seen earlier.
Of course, the page I found could be the counterfeit one, but I don't see why the personal homepage of an apple employee would need to copy this from another site!
The page I linked to is written by a Tom Elam, while Apple-history.com claims that all material was written and copyrighted by a Glen Sanford!
You can never be too careful with information you find on the web, it may not be from who you think it is
Duke Nukem3D was originally had cans of Cola for health, but they were removed before the final version. IIRC, they used pictures of 6packs of Coka Cola.
I'm sure this isn't the only example of such usage; I wouldn't be shocked if other commercial game engines have used easily available artwork while the game's artists were still at work, programmers aren't always very good at making their own art! So, perhaps this could speed development of games;)
Seriously though, this wouldn't work for say... quake3d, but it could work great for: Baseball, football, racing games, etc. It could work for realism fps like CounterStrike or maybe even UT.. but not all games would work so well with this, particularly games that deal with the future. Imagine a Star Wars game with an advertisement for TacoBell?
Ok, TacoBell may fit into a game version of Demolition Man, but a game based on "the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" wouldn't be able to have many ads after the Earth blows up.. unless Microsoft really IS the Borg:P
Actually, maybe Microsoft are really a bunch of Volgons.. their code is poetry. If you know the hitchhiker's guide, then you would understand:)
In most (all?) states of the United States, the legal driving age is well below the legal drinking age. Some states do not allow one to dispense normal gas until 18, even if their driving age is 16.. and in New Jersey, only employees of the Gas Station are allowed to dispense the gas.
If we did use alcohol-run cars, New Jersey's non-dispensing policy would likely become very popular... of course, you will get minors drilling holes into their gas tanks... but then their cars will not pass inspection:)
Yes, I vote to mod-down the parent to binarybit's post.. it is a shame for binarybits to lose karma when he was only replying to a troll bigger then he is:)
Now for something ontopic: I purchased a computer from Gateway who sold it out of SD and is currently in CA.. both states in that list. It is a shame I cannot resell the software, but I did use it for a short period of time; that shouldn't matter. I really do wish I could legally make some dough off of the software (although who wants to buy Win95 or WinNT these days?)
Here I go with my conspiracy theories, but I'm sure that the NSA and CIA have been doing this kind of stuff for years.. but i'm sure the data isn't just hidden, but also encrypted:)
What is nice about this is that instead of watermarking, the pixels are shaped differently. Watermarking doesn't scan right, but this does.. I don't really see how this can be considered new at all.. and certainly not patentable! But you never know what they will patent these days:(
Obvious concept with very little to no more realworld applications then a barcode has, only difference is that the untrained eye may not notice it's existance. What is good about this is, instead of putting an obvious and easily readable barcode on an identification card.. one can print the id card with glyphs, this isn't secure.. but it would prevent others from being able to read it without scanning it into a computer. (bar codes can be easily read by the trained eye). The identification card issue is brought up because there have been schools putting social security numbers on identification cards in barcode, or worse.. plain text..
speaking of plaintext info on identication cards, I wish they would either remove my social security number from my University id... or put encode it in a slightly more secure fashion!
Microsoft has ported IE and NetShow to Linux, but both projects have been canceled.. they were working though an outside company for the work, I don't know why they were canceled though.
This shows they do have an interest in porting to linux, they just haven't come out with anything more then broken beta software. The NetShow player doesn't really play many.asf files out there, as it supports none of the popular codecs.. sort of like the Linux Quicktime players, they work but not for the codecs you want:)
Although it is very likely that the Java client uses the TOC protocol, if it DOES use the Oscar protocol then it most likely has some other data that it uses for a checksum.
This other data could be the actual class file, which is possible via java's ClassLoader... or it could be a fixed array. If it is a fixed array, you can bet it is a small one; This could be easily integrated into an unofficial client. Of course, the problem with integrating such an array into an unofficial client is that it IS a java applet... AOL could replace the applet without worries of backwards compatability issues that uses another array.
This protocol is what AIM is trying to fight.. There aren't many users, but the protocol is great. All messages and transports use XML, it decentralized to an extent. The decentralization is caused by the use of email-like addresses, for instance: I am ewindisc@jabber.org. It even uses MX records!
Jabber is great, but the transports break often and it doesn't have enough of a userbase to be useful alone.
I have read some people say that this will stop Oscar usage in linux without hacks, this is not totally true. Aol DOES make an official Linux client (GTK) which does use Oscar. Unfortunately this is only available for x86 and its list of features is a fraction of what is implimented in GAIM with the Toc protocol.
The funny thing is that I have heard people say that they think this move may be due to advertisements; However, the official linux client using Oscar does NOT have advertisements. The truth of the matter is that AIM realizes the potential for Jabber, this is just an outcry from AOL to Jabber saying, "We will not let you win, don't even try".
Should Linux users be worried about this? YES! The simple fact that they are not worried about advertisements makes this a war *directly* against and only against unofficial (and open) clients. AOL has offically declared war on Jabber, and we are experiencing the side effects of this. How long before AOL realizes that they could turn off TOC services?
I have a girlfriend who is currently overseas, without AIM our relationship would be either much more difficult or non-existant; As I often talk to her with my ppcLinux machine, the official client has no chance of running here.. i need my open source AIM.
The french one states that all citizens have free speech except for when they don't (when the government makes a law saying they cannot)..
The only real place I've encountered such censorship is when I was in High School.. they limited us on all kinds of things, it was not just once that I called them on it.
The mentality of High School officials these days is that if you want to be an individual, independant, and free.. they will grant it to you by kicking you out. If you tell your teacher to "fuck off", you get suspended.. why? is it illegal or wrong to say, "fuck" ? I see nothing wrong with it, and I wish every student would say it to their teacher every day.
To every high school official out there, fuck you
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Actually, in reference to who knows or has gone though the entire kernel... Sams Press has a book that annotates the linux kernel, I think it may be complete. It may have been a 2.2 kernel though, not sure... Of course, who has actually read this book ?:P
I think I saw one of these somewhere, not sure where.. I thought it was ugly as hell, not realing it was made of paper! This is a really great concept.. I will have to get one:) it seems that they do have some dimension though.. there is a ICB connected to a paper face and then plastic that holds it together. Infact, it seems ONLY the face is what is made of paper, but the plastic is recycable too. Don't know how recycable that circuit board is, but oh well;)
He doesn't seem to like to post stuff I give him on IRC either:) It is funny but I've submitted quite a number of stories that don't get posted.. oh well.
I have an older model before they could run linux, one of the few released in the states. It is great, although power runs out quickly.. thats what you get f or having something as powerful as a palm in 95'
I tried to find information for using my much older model in linux, it has a minicom-like serial terminal which is nice (real serial port!). I found there newer models in japan.. they sound like they run linux quite well already from user support!
I own 2 BTTV based cards, the 829 and the 848 (or 78?)... I haven't tried getting the 829 working in linux because it is in my headless router, but the other card works perfectly but mono sound. The one I have used gives a very sharp picture, but I've noticed artifacts on fast motion.
Meanwhile, my ATI All In Wonder Pro with Gatos gives VERY good results.. The picture is comparatively blurred, but it does not have the for-mentioned artifacts. The all in wonder also does hardware scaling, the bttv cards are resolution limited.. most do 640x480, i think the higher end ones may do 800x600 these days. I run my All in Wonder Pro at 1280x1024 without a hitch. Note that the All in Wonder Pro in linux is NOT currently a good choice for video editting or capture, it uses the xatitv program or any XV aware apps.. I don't think you can use any v4l stuff with it.
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I heard that some of the older cuecats came with TV cables, infact... I have two cuecats and both came with a book saying there was a TV cable, but neither came with one. Does anyone know how this is done?
What would be interesting is a television ad service based on barcodes. If you buy a product, you could scan the barcode to block advertisements for the product (since you are already a customer)... that would be pretty neat, then the commercial could be either removed so you can get to your show quicker.. or be fed an ad which is not blocked.
Drool, :) The best I've ever manged to get was a 25mhz 486sx /w MCA from a hospitol dumpster... there had been an AS/400 but it was already striped before i got there :(
really.. I think that people should start sending me their old hardware, I'm a complete hardware freak
Indys, yummy.
This would be great to have in the states, but do they provide a method to change the software on the phones.. and provide the source to the software? I really wouldn't trust anything like this without know that I would be safe from backdoors!
Can we really trust a company to Do The Right ThingTM? Sure, even with a backdoor.. this will keep you from being spied on by your kid sister, but what about Big Brother?
We must demand that our devices using encryption MUST be open enough that we can verify our freedom.
As I run Linux exclusively on my machines, as I was shopping for a laptop I was in the market for hardware.. not platform. I looked around at all the machines... even apple.
:)
It eventually came down between a Sony Vaio, a Compaq 1700, and the Apple PowerBook Pismo. The greatest deciding factor was that it had the best laptop keyboard i've ever seen.. infact, after using the keyboard for several months and using my friend's Compaq 1700... I was so glad that I had gotten my powerbook.
Sorry to sound a like a commercial, but it really is the best IMHO; and you get firewire
It is also great to have a PowerPC chip... good to get experience with other architectures.. although this can be a pain at times (some stuff doesnt run, usually due to endianess)
If you don't need windows and care about your hands, i'd say go for it.
Free software is great, but what happened to freedom of speech? This is a very bad thing!
Linux is a lot easier for powerusers.. Windows just doesn't have the functionality that Unix does. I cannot use a machine without a powerful CLI... to imagine the insanity of having a GUI tool for a file-manager, just horrid.
Some people have realized that a GUI is castration, sure the usage is obvious.. but whats the point if it isn't powerful enough to be useful?
Not saying that The One Unix WayTM is good for everyone, but for some anything less would just drive them to a mental hospital.
AMD's PowerNow will do this too, both AMD and Intel have had CPU throttling in their cpus for a while.. be it for power or heat concerns, it has been around.
I suspect that the P4 is already running faster then it should, I remember stories about Intel boasting about how they could overclock their chips to different speeds a while back.
Anyhow, this isn't a big deal.. who wants their processor burning up anyhow?
Here you can find all the information you need to hack your VR3:
:)
:) Theys guys didn't really know what they were doing on the speed-side but they did make a good peice of hardware.
http://developer.agendacomputing.com/
One design flaw (IMHO) is that all of the user applications on the machine are written in C++, due to the embedded design of the software.. C may have reduced the footprint required to "push" the applications, but that is my opinion..you don't have to agree
The graphics toolkit (C++) they are using is very cross platform, perhaps they decided to use it incase they would later decide to move to WinCE?? It is called FLTK. The machine itself runs XFree86, so all of your existing X11 applications should run fine; although the screensize may be a little limiting.
This platform just needs optimizations, they are using very open technologies and opened it up to developers, infact.. most of the software is already on most linux machines!
As far as the WindowManager is concerned, it is FLWM.. of course based on this high-level graphics library. For speed's sake, there are definately much "lighter" windowmanagers out there! A modification of RatPoison or ION would be perfect for this device, much cleaner.. faster..
It shouldn't take much to make this a much faster machine, just remove all the applications shipped with it!
If I get the money, i'm buying one!
Glad to see a response by you.
It is a good writeup.. if it is true that you did write the content, which I do believe considering the contrast between the professionalism of the writeup vs Tom's site.. then perhaps you should write an email to Tom requesting that he directly links to your page instead of providing a hacked copy of it on his page.
If you really wanted, I'm sure you could sue him as he does claim he wrote it according to the header (although the header is on all of his pages).
In any case, nice site.
Just for those of you interested.. the exact page(s) on apple-history.com which is suspect is here
The text does look a little too professional for Tom's site.. but apple-history.com is not the most professional of sites either. Someone is lying, not that I really care who it is :)
I was looking for some information on the history of Apple today, for ammunition against some trolls lurking on irc.. I found this page, when I saw this link.. I realized that the history section is lifted directly off of the page I had seen earlier.
Of course, the page I found could be the counterfeit one, but I don't see why the personal homepage of an apple employee would need to copy this from another site!
The page I linked to is written by a Tom Elam, while Apple-history.com claims that all material was written and copyrighted by a Glen Sanford!
You can never be too careful with information you find on the web, it may not be from who you think it is
Duke Nukem3D was originally had cans of Cola for health, but they were removed before the final version. IIRC, they used pictures of 6packs of Coka Cola.
;)
:P
:)
I'm sure this isn't the only example of such usage; I wouldn't be shocked if other commercial game engines have used easily available artwork while the game's artists were still at work, programmers aren't always very good at making their own art! So, perhaps this could speed development of games
Seriously though, this wouldn't work for say... quake3d, but it could work great for: Baseball, football, racing games, etc. It could work for realism fps like CounterStrike or maybe even UT.. but not all games would work so well with this, particularly games that deal with the future. Imagine a Star Wars game with an advertisement for TacoBell?
Ok, TacoBell may fit into a game version of Demolition Man, but a game based on "the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" wouldn't be able to have many ads after the Earth blows up.. unless Microsoft really IS the Borg
Actually, maybe Microsoft are really a bunch of Volgons.. their code is poetry. If you know the hitchhiker's guide, then you would understand
In most (all?) states of the United States, the legal driving age is well below the legal drinking age. Some states do not allow one to dispense normal gas until 18, even if their driving age is 16.. and in New Jersey, only employees of the Gas Station are allowed to dispense the gas.
:)
If we did use alcohol-run cars, New Jersey's non-dispensing policy would likely become very popular... of course, you will get minors drilling holes into their gas tanks... but then their cars will not pass inspection
Yes, I vote to mod-down the parent to binarybit's post.. it is a shame for binarybits to lose karma when he was only replying to a troll bigger then he is :)
Now for something ontopic: I purchased a computer from Gateway who sold it out of SD and is currently in CA.. both states in that list. It is a shame I cannot resell the software, but I did use it for a short period of time; that shouldn't matter. I really do wish I could legally make some dough off of the software (although who wants to buy Win95 or WinNT these days?)
Here I go with my conspiracy theories, but I'm sure that the NSA and CIA have been doing this kind of stuff for years.. but i'm sure the data isn't just hidden, but also encrypted :)
:(
What is nice about this is that instead of watermarking, the pixels are shaped differently. Watermarking doesn't scan right, but this does.. I don't really see how this can be considered new at all.. and certainly not patentable! But you never know what they will patent these days
Obvious concept with very little to no more realworld applications then a barcode has, only difference is that the untrained eye may not notice it's existance. What is good about this is, instead of putting an obvious and easily readable barcode on an identification card.. one can print the id card with glyphs, this isn't secure.. but it would prevent others from being able to read it without scanning it into a computer. (bar codes can be easily read by the trained eye). The identification card issue is brought up because there have been schools putting social security numbers on identification cards in barcode, or worse.. plain text..
speaking of plaintext info on identication cards, I wish they would either remove my social security number from my University id... or put encode it in a slightly more secure fashion!
Microsoft has ported IE and NetShow to Linux, but both projects have been canceled.. they were working though an outside company for the work, I don't know why they were canceled though.
.asf files out there, as it supports none of the popular codecs.. sort of like the Linux Quicktime players, they work but not for the codecs you want :)
This shows they do have an interest in porting to linux, they just haven't come out with anything more then broken beta software. The NetShow player doesn't really play many
Although it is very likely that the Java client uses the TOC protocol, if it DOES use the Oscar protocol then it most likely has some other data that it uses for a checksum.
This other data could be the actual class file, which is possible via java's ClassLoader... or it could be a fixed array. If it is a fixed array, you can bet it is a small one; This could be easily integrated into an unofficial client. Of course, the problem with integrating such an array into an unofficial client is that it IS a java applet... AOL could replace the applet without worries of backwards compatability issues that uses another array.
Checkout Jabber at Jabber.org and Jabber.com
This protocol is what AIM is trying to fight.. There aren't many users, but the protocol is great. All messages and transports use XML, it decentralized to an extent. The decentralization is caused by the use of email-like addresses, for instance: I am ewindisc@jabber.org. It even uses MX records!
Jabber is great, but the transports break often and it doesn't have enough of a userbase to be useful alone.
I have read some people say that this will stop Oscar usage in linux without hacks, this is not totally true. Aol DOES make an official Linux client (GTK) which does use Oscar. Unfortunately this is only available for x86 and its list of features is a fraction of what is implimented in GAIM with the Toc protocol.
The funny thing is that I have heard people say that they think this move may be due to advertisements; However, the official linux client using Oscar does NOT have advertisements. The truth of the matter is that AIM realizes the potential for Jabber, this is just an outcry from AOL to Jabber saying, "We will not let you win, don't even try".
Should Linux users be worried about this? YES! The simple fact that they are not worried about advertisements makes this a war *directly* against and only against unofficial (and open) clients. AOL has offically declared war on Jabber, and we are experiencing the side effects of this. How long before AOL realizes that they could turn off TOC services?
I have a girlfriend who is currently overseas, without AIM our relationship would be either much more difficult or non-existant; As I often talk to her with my ppcLinux machine, the official client has no chance of running here.. i need my open source AIM.
The french one states that all citizens have free speech except for when they don't (when the government makes a law saying they cannot)..
The only real place I've encountered such censorship is when I was in High School.. they limited us on all kinds of things, it was not just once that I called them on it.
The mentality of High School officials these days is that if you want to be an individual, independant, and free.. they will grant it to you by kicking you out. If you tell your teacher to "fuck off", you get suspended.. why? is it illegal or wrong to say, "fuck" ? I see nothing wrong with it, and I wish every student would say it to their teacher every day.
To every high school official out there, fuck you
Actually, in reference to who knows or has gone though the entire kernel... Sams Press has a book that annotates the linux kernel, I think it may be complete. It may have been a 2.2 kernel though, not sure... Of course, who has actually read this book ? :P
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I think I saw one of these somewhere, not sure where.. I thought it was ugly as hell, not realing it was made of paper! This is a really great concept.. I will have to get one :) it seems that they do have some dimension though.. there is a ICB connected to a paper face and then plastic that holds it together. Infact, it seems ONLY the face is what is made of paper, but the plastic is recycable too. Don't know how recycable that circuit board is, but oh well ;)
He doesn't seem to like to post stuff I give him on IRC either :) It is funny but I've submitted quite a number of stories that don't get posted.. oh well.
I have an older model before they could run linux, one of the few released in the states. It is great, although power runs out quickly.. thats what you get f or having something as powerful as a palm in 95'
I tried to find information for using my much older model in linux, it has a minicom-like serial terminal which is nice (real serial port!). I found there newer models in japan.. they sound like they run linux quite well already from user support!
would love to have one in america!
I own 2 BTTV based cards, the 829 and the 848 (or 78?)... I haven't tried getting the 829 working in linux because it is in my headless router, but the other card works perfectly but mono sound. The one I have used gives a very sharp picture, but I've noticed artifacts on fast motion.
Meanwhile, my ATI All In Wonder Pro with Gatos gives VERY good results.. The picture is comparatively blurred, but it does not have the for-mentioned artifacts. The all in wonder also does hardware scaling, the bttv cards are resolution limited.. most do 640x480, i think the higher end ones may do 800x600 these days. I run my All in Wonder Pro at 1280x1024 without a hitch. Note that the All in Wonder Pro in linux is NOT currently a good choice for video editting or capture, it uses the xatitv program or any XV aware apps.. I don't think you can use any v4l stuff with it.
Have fun!