Creative's TextOLE had "singing text" back in 1996 - I had demos on my PC that came with my SoundBlaster 16! You marked-up text with notes and expressions for each phonym and the text-to-speach synth could sing.
It did a great rendition of "Itsy Bitsy Spider". * grin *
I, personally, have never used any P2P file sharing.
I've never shared my music with anyone over the 'net.
I also haven't bought a record (CD, vinyl, etc.) in over 2 years. (Seriously - I know 'cuz I haven't had to reorganize my CD shelf since I moved in 2001)
Thank goodness my honesty has made the RIAA so much money.
I'm the computer guy for a small, security-concious company that uses IMAP-over-SSL (IMAPs) for email and I always install Mozilla as the default email client on both the Windows and FreeBSD machines here. The selection of email clients that support IMAPS is quite small and, of the choices, Mozilla Mail blows them all away.
Actually, I'd be interested in hearing from anybody with a good suggestion for an IMAPS mail client for either Windows or unix (FreeBSD esp.). Mozilla is nice, but I like options (besides PINE, which I use).
There's a direct port for GBA for Phantasy Star 1,2,3. It's out under the name Phantasy Star Collection. I'm playing right now (actually bought GBA just for this game) - it's great.
how do you plan to get 16 NTSC-composite video signals from your cable/sattelite/broadcast feed? Do you have 16 base-band converters? I'm curious.
Or perhaps are you capturing CCTV for archival? You may want to investigate how people do that (casinos capture immense amounts of high quality digital video for security purposes). The hardware is, doubtless, expensive, but it may give you some insight on how it can be done "on the cheap".
When they asked "Can I have you last name, please?" I just said "No." They'll still sell you your batteries, they'll just look offended while doing it.:)
from people who hate the prospect of actually having to pay for their bandwidth. Seems like people (geeks) get spoiled in college and then come back to the real world and say "Hey! Where's my cheap bandwidth! You can't do this to me!"
For starters, I think this guy needs a lesson in bits versus bytes in his net radio rant. Of course, that fact that nobody follows a 'b' = bits and 'B' = bytes convention doesn't help, either. 20kBps is 1.2MB per minute. And 20kBps net radio is damn good if you ask me.
I guess this guy's never priced a real connection to the internet. Bandwidth is just expensive. Now, I have no idea why it's that way - seems like it shouldn't be - but it is. Our business DSL line costs us $220/mo for 768kbps symetric. That fact that that same line costs me $70/mo at home is because my ISP knows that our business line is going to do more throughput that my home line. It's factored into the price that the expected behaviours are different.
Now, when people with consumer DSL/cable/etc. connections start behaving like business customers in their usage patterns, telcos start to put the brakes on and say "You need to be paying business-grade prices of you're doing business-grade traffic." What's so wrong about this that it gets every geek up in arms?
If you're going to be keeping the line at capacity >10% of the time, you deserve to pay for it. Any real connection you pay 95th percentile bandwidth charges (that means you pay for your actual metered usage, minus the top 5% of the measurements). And if you're pulling ISOs and MP3s and warez and porn over that, you're gonna get a bill that you may not like.
But...if I've got a 768kbps line that I use for web surfing and email and SSH sessions into work when something breaks, I don't really feel like paying the same amount as you. I say "Bring on the metered lines!" It won't raise my bill - I'm actually using the line the way the telco expects. I've got a line that's 12 times the speed of my old modem for about 4 times the cost. And I certainly do more than 4 times the transfers that I used to. But not 50 times or more.
So, to end my rant, I just wanna know why people think they shouldn't have to pay the actual costs of their transfers. Prices for high-speed connections via cable/DSL are SO low compared to what business-grade connections (T1, etc.) cost. Just be grateful you can afford 5GB/mo in the first place. Try pulling that over your modem.
Now that I think about it, I remembered constantly seeing ads for telephony, etc. cards on BSDMall. I would assume that a card proudly flaunted there would have BSD drivers at least, if not Linux.
How many quality telephony cards are out there with equally quality drivers? I'll admit I've done no research on this but could this be the answer?
Linux being the DIY operating system that it is, people tend to write drivers for the hardware that they have. How many linux hackers have dialogic boards in their machines? At >$500, I doubt the number is very high. No drivers, no applications.
And I was thinking "Where am I gonna find a Windows box to test this from?"
Unfortunately, this exploit even works on boxes that have the "NULL session" registry patch. Time to go patch all the NT desktops in the office. *sigh*
From a security standpoint, this seems completely backwards to me. The data should already be encrypted. It should only be decrypted when it's in the owner's possesion (i.e., available to enter his/her passphrase). If the data is unencrypted by default where's the security?
And, on a practical note, how many laptops, do you imagine, get stolen while they're turned on and running? What about the ones that get stolen when they're sitting idle in their highly attractive "steal me" notebook cases (which is why my company issues backpacks that don't advertise that they contain computers).
My idea for a laptop is one that has a standard DB9 serial port so I can actually USE it for something. About 80% of why I need a laptop is a portable serial terminal for supporting servers/network switches in the field that have console on serial port. It's still the best way to administer a server. 9600-8-N-1 is the least common denominator: it always works.:)
And since the only way to get files in/out in MP3 format is Sony's "MagicGate" memory stick (the DRM version of the MemoryStick), copying shouldn't be a wory to the RIAA.
I'm the admin for a small (lt 20 people) company so I can usually get the chance to do things right from the beginning. When the exec's asked for a way for off-site consultants to access our internal (samba) fileserver, I cringed (ohmigod, Windows VPNs, etc.) until I found SecureFX.
SecureFX implements FTP-over-SSH2 and SFTP. All I had to do was turn on "Subsystem SFTP" on the servers, give each exec a DSA key and install this program. It was ~$60/seat when we bought it - we only bought 5 seats, one for each consultant - and it's easy enough for our Windoze users handle.
Basically, it looks just like and FTP client to the user. I just set the initial directory to our samba-shared directory path and bingo! You can drag-and-drop and whatnot. Only thing to worry about is getting users to upload the file again when they've made their changes (we've had files get out of sync that way).
One annoyance - it uses SSH.COM's SSH engine so you have to generate DSA keys with the client program and convert the public key to OpenSSH format for use on the server. Minor annoyance.
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Creative's TextOLE had "singing text" back in 1996 - I had demos on my PC that came with my SoundBlaster 16! You marked-up text with notes and expressions for each phonym and the text-to-speach synth could sing.
It did a great rendition of "Itsy Bitsy Spider". * grin *
So how long until I can find one on the Apple store? :)
This looks a lot like what the company I work for does.
(A box/infrastructure) that does the crypto/key management for you)
I, personally, have never used any P2P file sharing.
I've never shared my music with anyone over the 'net.
I also haven't bought a record (CD, vinyl, etc.) in over 2 years. (Seriously - I know 'cuz I haven't had to reorganize my CD shelf since I moved in 2001)
Thank goodness my honesty has made the RIAA so much money.
Actually, I'd be interested in hearing from anybody with a good suggestion for an IMAPS mail client for either Windows or unix (FreeBSD esp.). Mozilla is nice, but I like options (besides PINE, which I use).
There's a direct port for GBA for Phantasy Star 1,2,3. It's out under the name Phantasy Star Collection. I'm playing right now (actually bought GBA just for this game) - it's great.
:)
Now I can level up in my "spare" time at work.
Looks like more version-number leapfrog.
Actually, I think RedHat has this implemented pretty well.
how do you plan to get 16 NTSC-composite video signals from your cable/sattelite/broadcast feed? Do you have 16 base-band converters? I'm curious.
Or perhaps are you capturing CCTV for archival? You may want to investigate how people do that (casinos capture immense amounts of high quality digital video for security purposes). The hardware is, doubtless, expensive, but it may give you some insight on how it can be done "on the cheap".
When they asked "Can I have you last name, please?" I just said "No." They'll still sell you your batteries, they'll just look offended while doing it. :)
The web site version of this article is here.
Ah, a laptop with a 3-button mouse - what a thing of beauty.
*sighs*
For starters, I think this guy needs a lesson in bits versus bytes in his net radio rant. Of course, that fact that nobody follows a 'b' = bits and 'B' = bytes convention doesn't help, either. 20kBps is 1.2MB per minute. And 20kBps net radio is damn good if you ask me.
I guess this guy's never priced a real connection to the internet. Bandwidth is just expensive. Now, I have no idea why it's that way - seems like it shouldn't be - but it is. Our business DSL line costs us $220/mo for 768kbps symetric. That fact that that same line costs me $70/mo at home is because my ISP knows that our business line is going to do more throughput that my home line. It's factored into the price that the expected behaviours are different.
Now, when people with consumer DSL/cable/etc. connections start behaving like business customers in their usage patterns, telcos start to put the brakes on and say "You need to be paying business-grade prices of you're doing business-grade traffic." What's so wrong about this that it gets every geek up in arms?
If you're going to be keeping the line at capacity >10% of the time, you deserve to pay for it. Any real connection you pay 95th percentile bandwidth charges (that means you pay for your actual metered usage, minus the top 5% of the measurements). And if you're pulling ISOs and MP3s and warez and porn over that, you're gonna get a bill that you may not like.
But...if I've got a 768kbps line that I use for web surfing and email and SSH sessions into work when something breaks, I don't really feel like paying the same amount as you. I say "Bring on the metered lines!" It won't raise my bill - I'm actually using the line the way the telco expects. I've got a line that's 12 times the speed of my old modem for about 4 times the cost. And I certainly do more than 4 times the transfers that I used to. But not 50 times or more.
So, to end my rant, I just wanna know why people think they shouldn't have to pay the actual costs of their transfers. Prices for high-speed connections via cable/DSL are SO low compared to what business-grade connections (T1, etc.) cost. Just be grateful you can afford 5GB/mo in the first place. Try pulling that over your modem.
BTW, I only picked Dialogic 'cuz I knew their boards from when I worked for Comdial.
This one here lists Linux compatibility.
Linux being the DIY operating system that it is, people tend to write drivers for the hardware that they have. How many linux hackers have dialogic boards in their machines? At >$500, I doubt the number is very high. No drivers, no applications.
Step 1: Get a link to your band on /.
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Step 2:
Step 3: Profit!
Unfortunately, this exploit even works on boxes that have the "NULL session" registry patch. Time to go patch all the NT desktops in the office. *sigh*
And, on a practical note, how many laptops, do you imagine, get stolen while they're turned on and running? What about the ones that get stolen when they're sitting idle in their highly attractive "steal me" notebook cases (which is why my company issues backpacks that don't advertise that they contain computers).
Seems bass-ackwards to me.
My idea for a laptop is one that has a standard DB9 serial port so I can actually USE it for something. About 80% of why I need a laptop is a portable serial terminal for supporting servers/network switches in the field that have console on serial port. It's still the best way to administer a server. 9600-8-N-1 is the least common denominator: it always works. :)
No...and neither is dead hardware. But equipment vendors....they're difficult. :)
The boss didn't do for, though. :(
And since the only way to get files in/out in MP3 format is Sony's "MagicGate" memory stick (the DRM version of the MemoryStick), copying shouldn't be a wory to the RIAA.
Assuming you have one within 400 fickin' miles of your homwtown...*sniff* :(
SecureFX implements FTP-over-SSH2 and SFTP. All I had to do was turn on "Subsystem SFTP" on the servers, give each exec a DSA key and install this program. It was ~$60/seat when we bought it - we only bought 5 seats, one for each consultant - and it's easy enough for our Windoze users handle.
Basically, it looks just like and FTP client to the user. I just set the initial directory to our samba-shared directory path and bingo! You can drag-and-drop and whatnot. Only thing to worry about is getting users to upload the file again when they've made their changes (we've had files get out of sync that way).
One annoyance - it uses SSH.COM's SSH engine so you have to generate DSA keys with the client program and convert the public key to OpenSSH format for use on the server. Minor annoyance.