Opensource works because even though 90% of users of a project won't contribute, the 10% that do (not just code, but bug reports, comments, newbie help, documentation, etc.) make a huge difference.
Half of the stuff is assumptions I deal with *every day* from management on my paid work, so to say that OSS makes these assumptions exclusively is a pure troll.
Some of it is plain loony - saying that writing code once and sharing it is a commercial advantage is ludicrous - the *point* of OSS is that we write stuff once then share it. Commercial development does exactly the opposite, by protecting everything with patents and forcing everyone to re-invent the wheel when they write anything.
Just looking around you can get Tivo for $50 over there. Lifetime is $199 not $299... don't know where you got your figures from. Last I heard that included tax.
My Tivo warranty was something like 2 years, but I took the lid off so blew that one. 90 days would be illegal here (there are minimums for electronic devices) and I assume it's the same in the US.
If you get a Tivo replaced they *will* transfer the lifetime - there are numerous examples of that happening.
Minimum spec on a PVR is a lot more than a celeron.
For instance, for the SageTV thing mentioned earlier they state:
MPEG 2 capable receiver (the ones listed on sagetv are analogue ones... really you need one that can do satellite or at least DVB) - minimum $100. To be the same quality as Tivo you'd need one that's RGB in and oh dear they don't exist. PIII-600 256M - $100ish depending on where you get it. Video card with TV Out - $50 Big hard drive - at least 120GB - $100
That's $350 *before* you've put in the cost of the rest of the PC... Shuttle cases for example are $100 a throw.
Then there's the noise factor. Tivos are whisper quiet... To make a PC that quiet wou can easily add another $100 onto the base price.
It depends - I think some providers support xmltv directly.
The UK version of xmltv is pretty sucky - it's missing half the channels and there's no series information on most of them (I only managed to get 4 channels out of 30). There's a program to strip the Radio Times website of listings but it takes hours (and isn't very friendly to the website!).
You can program a Tivo using xmltv data, although the people who know how to do it (tivocanada) are pretty tight lipped about how (if you're lucky you might be able to get someone to leak you the code though).
Years ago someone told me that they spelled it daemon because the fundamentalists went nuts when they tried to spell it demon. No idea of the truth of that though.
Start the download and keep an eye on your temp directories - the redist downloads there... if you copy it before the system deletes it again you've got yourself an installable IE.
The lifecycles of Windows OSs are known years in advance... it's been an open secret MS wanted an excuse to ditch Win9x for years... Are you actually saying you *paid* for a 5 year old obsolete copy of Win98?
I've got this bridge going cheap I can sell you...
So they're trying to EOL Outlook 2000? Fat chance... Office rollouts are *slow* - we still have some Outlook 97 clients to support.
Also, since many of the desktops are still on Win2k they can't even run Office XP - nor would they want to, with all that activation crap (have you any idea how much *hassle* it is to activate 50 desktops? We sitestepped the XP ones by using corpfiles.zip there's nothing like that for Office).
The biggest problem with spam is the deception and confusion.
Absolutely untrue.
The biggest problem with spam is that it's theft of bandwidth, resources and time.
Even at home I get ~10,000 spams a month. You don't want to *know* what the figures are at work. Suffice to say we just upgraded the disk on the exchange servers to cope with it (and will the spammers be paying for that? Will they heck).
There is no 'acceptable' spam. If I didn't ask for it, I don't want it. I tolerate advertising on billboards and on TV because it (allegedly) keeps prices down and pays for other things. Spam has none of these benefits.
If they've broken into your box and achieved root, there are about 10 zillion methods of them getting the password. And about another 10 zillion of putting so many backdoors onto your system they'll never need a password again.../etc/shadow is the least of your worries...
Sometimes you can just do "ypcat -k passwd" and get the hashes anyway.
Not unless your actually not using shadow passwords at all...
'ypcat shadow' might do it but nobody with any ounce of sanity would put the shadow file on NIS. I use kerberos auth for the passwords and NIS for the rest of the stuff, which works fine... then again I'm behind a nice tight firewall.
Afganistan is now run by warlords, has restarted heroin shipments and is manifestly *not* a democracy...
Iraq is a bloody mess and the war hasn't actually finished yet, but the news seems to be the US are too busy trying to find a way out before the next election to care about actually winning.
Hopefully Chip&Pin will take care of most of it... the banks are pushing it so hard that it's bound to take off (almost every shop I see with credit card machines also has a C&P logo stuck to their window... even though nobody has any of the actual cards yet - I suspect the retailers are being paid or more likely strongarmed into adopting it - they're talking about 100% of all CC/debit transactions going via C&P by the end of next year).
Even if you're stupid you need the physical card to actually do a transaction with it, as they're damn near uncopyable. The downside is once someone has your pin it's game over - they can *prove* that they are you to any store with no need to bother with learning your signature.
Just after the students come back all flushed with their grants (and no idea that once their board and lodgings are taken into account they have about 5.00 a week to spend of food) the most prevalent kind of ATM theft round here is also the simplest:
Knife in back, 'take out all your money or I'll kill you'.
A few people get stung with that every year... not a lot that can stop it either (cameras help, but they're not everywhere).
Over hear one or two banks tried to charge for the use of ATMs, and they started shedding customers so fast it probably cost them far more than they could ever have made in fees - they backed down in less than a fortnight IIRC (now the bank that first tried it uses 'we don't charge' as one of its selling points... sigh...)
Most small shops don't take credit cards... you're telling me you pay for a newspaper with a CC?
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True - I've seen some of the code I wrote 10 years ago... OMG!!! Shoot me!!!
No, I'm not disciplined by most peoples standards even now, but at least my code is logical and readable now.
It's a complete straw man though.
Opensource works because even though 90% of users of a project won't contribute, the 10% that do (not just code, but bug reports, comments, newbie help, documentation, etc.) make a huge difference.
Half of the stuff is assumptions I deal with *every day* from management on my paid work, so to say that OSS makes these assumptions exclusively is a pure troll.
Some of it is plain loony - saying that writing code once and sharing it is a commercial advantage is ludicrous - the *point* of OSS is that we write stuff once then share it. Commercial development does exactly the opposite, by protecting everything with patents and forcing everyone to re-invent the wheel when they write anything.
Just looking around you can get Tivo for $50 over there. Lifetime is $199 not $299... don't know where you got your figures from. Last I heard that included tax.
My Tivo warranty was something like 2 years, but I took the lid off so blew that one. 90 days would be illegal here (there are minimums for electronic devices) and I assume it's the same in the US.
If you get a Tivo replaced they *will* transfer the lifetime - there are numerous examples of that happening.
Can't press "record" on the TiVo from work, now can you?
Um, yes, actually.
PVR-250 is hopelessly inadequate for modern PVR. It's got an analogue tuner, FFS!!! At least get a DVB card.
Half hour?
Just getting the dependencies right for MythTV (most of which are *not* documented) took about half a day.
Then there's the kernel patches for the card... at least two different ones, none of which compiled cleanly and had to be manually hacked.
For the price of your 'high quality' card you could have bought a Tivo, you know... they sell for half that.
Learning is irrelevant - the OP was trying to save money, not learn.
at least one full featured card with video out required
Ouch.
That's $200 before you start...
Minimum spec on a PVR is a lot more than a celeron.
For instance, for the SageTV thing mentioned earlier they state:
MPEG 2 capable receiver (the ones listed on sagetv are analogue ones... really you need one that can do satellite or at least DVB) - minimum $100. To be the same quality as Tivo you'd need one that's RGB in and oh dear they don't exist.
PIII-600 256M - $100ish depending on where you get it.
Video card with TV Out - $50
Big hard drive - at least 120GB - $100
That's $350 *before* you've put in the cost of the rest of the PC... Shuttle cases for example are $100 a throw.
Then there's the noise factor. Tivos are whisper quiet... To make a PC that quiet wou can easily add another $100 onto the base price.
It depends - I think some providers support xmltv directly.
The UK version of xmltv is pretty sucky - it's missing half the channels and there's no series information on most of them (I only managed to get 4 channels out of 30). There's a program to strip the Radio Times website of listings but it takes hours (and isn't very friendly to the website!).
You can program a Tivo using xmltv data, although the people who know how to do it (tivocanada) are pretty tight lipped about how (if you're lucky you might be able to get someone to leak you the code though).
Hmm... PC $600 + about a month configuring it to work as a PVR.
Tivo + Lifetime sub $300-$400
I know which I'd go for...
Athlon64 currently has a single memory channel rather than dual IIRC. It's also about a quarter of the price :)
It flies running 64bit Linux..
Deliberate misspelling :)
Years ago someone told me that they spelled it daemon because the fundamentalists went nuts when they tried to spell it demon. No idea of the truth of that though.
40 a day? You mustn't use your email much.
Try over 300 (currently averaging 10,000 spams a month)... Thank god for SpamAssassin or I'd have given up on email by now.
I wonder how Windows 95b would run on a 3GHz CPU with 1GB RAM?
I wouldn't - above a certain speed Win9x falls over with a division by zero (some kind of busy loop it uses for timing I think).
IIRC it can only address 256MB anyway without becoming unstable.
Start the download and keep an eye on your temp directories - the redist downloads there... if you copy it before the system deletes it again you've got yourself an installable IE.
MSDN also has it on CD, of course.
I really hope that was supposed to be a joke :)
The lifecycles of Windows OSs are known years in advance... it's been an open secret MS wanted an excuse to ditch Win9x for years... Are you actually saying you *paid* for a 5 year old obsolete copy of Win98?
I've got this bridge going cheap I can sell you...
So they're trying to EOL Outlook 2000? Fat chance... Office rollouts are *slow* - we still have some Outlook 97 clients to support.
Also, since many of the desktops are still on Win2k they can't even run Office XP - nor would they want to, with all that activation crap (have you any idea how much *hassle* it is to activate 50 desktops? We sitestepped the XP ones by using corpfiles.zip there's nothing like that for Office).
The biggest problem with spam is the deception and confusion.
Absolutely untrue.
The biggest problem with spam is that it's theft of bandwidth, resources and time.
Even at home I get ~10,000 spams a month. You don't want to *know* what the figures are at work. Suffice to say we just upgraded the disk on the exchange servers to cope with it (and will the spammers be paying for that? Will they heck).
There is no 'acceptable' spam. If I didn't ask for it, I don't want it. I tolerate advertising on billboards and on TV because it (allegedly) keeps prices down and pays for other things. Spam has none of these benefits.
If they've broken into your box and achieved root, there are about 10 zillion methods of them getting the password. And about another 10 zillion of putting so many backdoors onto your system they'll never need a password again... /etc/shadow is the least of your worries...
Zombies, demons, cyrpt, etc.
Were all the original unix inventors Goths?
Sometimes you can just do "ypcat -k passwd" and get the hashes anyway.
Not unless your actually not using shadow passwords at all...
'ypcat shadow' might do it but nobody with any ounce of sanity would put the shadow file on NIS. I use kerberos auth for the passwords and NIS for the rest of the stuff, which works fine... then again I'm behind a nice tight firewall.
Has he won one? I missed that.
Afganistan is now run by warlords, has restarted heroin shipments and is manifestly *not* a democracy...
Iraq is a bloody mess and the war hasn't actually finished yet, but the news seems to be the US are too busy trying to find a way out before the next election to care about actually winning.
Hopefully Chip&Pin will take care of most of it... the banks are pushing it so hard that it's bound to take off (almost every shop I see with credit card machines also has a C&P logo stuck to their window... even though nobody has any of the actual cards yet - I suspect the retailers are being paid or more likely strongarmed into adopting it - they're talking about 100% of all CC/debit transactions going via C&P by the end of next year).
Even if you're stupid you need the physical card to actually do a transaction with it, as they're damn near uncopyable. The downside is once someone has your pin it's game over - they can *prove* that they are you to any store with no need to bother with learning your signature.
Just after the students come back all flushed with their grants (and no idea that once their board and lodgings are taken into account they have about 5.00 a week to spend of food) the most prevalent kind of ATM theft round here is also the simplest:
Knife in back, 'take out all your money or I'll kill you'.
A few people get stung with that every year... not a lot that can stop it either (cameras help, but they're not everywhere).
You need to protest a bit...
Over hear one or two banks tried to charge for the use of ATMs, and they started shedding customers so fast it probably cost them far more than they could ever have made in fees - they backed down in less than a fortnight IIRC (now the bank that first tried it uses 'we don't charge' as one of its selling points... sigh...)
Most small shops don't take credit cards... you're telling me you pay for a newspaper with a CC?
That's funny until you have a PHB wanting New features, stability, and it *must* be released on the exact date that marketing says it will. ...
Which is next week...