who would spend $700 on a video card to give an extra 20fps (total of 150fps) on their 80hz monitor.
Nice try but the fps plays an intrinsic part of the control system, it's proportional to the latency. At lower fps the machine cannot respond to mouse events as soon. So having a high FPS is a metric to how well the machine will respond overall.
Also, people use FPS in Quake3 as a guide. Okay one can say 'I got 3547' on 3dMark but Quake3 fps is something people can directly understand. Remember that play many games and not just Quake3. For instance I just got a GeForce4 ti4600. I get 220 fps in Quake3 (@1280x1024x32:) with the default config but in Dungeon Siege I get 10fps @ 1024x768x32.
I've never heard of anyone spending $700 for 20fps! (but that's not to say it's impossible)
As for liquid cooled, if I could be arsed/afford it I'd buy it and take a 3% performance *decrease* just to show it to people at LAN parties.
Don't be a player hater. The world would be a sadder place if people didn't play.
I'm sure these guys will do something great with this project, but call me when they add even one of the features on that list.
you dont get it do you?
this is Open Source. If you have ideas and help that you can bring to the party then bring them. What peopl *don't* need is some smart alec standing there watching and saying: "what's the point, it's rubbish, you're wasting my time!!"
sorry but experience alone will not teach one the breadth of the subject. How, for instance, will one deduce that the re-written program would be better suited to a different programming paradigm if one has not studied the known paradigms?
Without reading about say, Functional Programming, how will one make the intuitive leap mearly by exercising the iterative.
Like *all* disciplines it is the combination of study and practice that will lead the way.
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the popular mail client Pine 4.21 (and possibly earlier versions), relating to the function which regularly checks for incoming email.
The real concern here is that this requires no user interaction to exploit.. a target need only be using a vulnerable version of pine. The overflow occurs when the user recieves new email. While typically not yielding root privileges (unless root reads email with pine AS root) this can be used by a remote, anonymous attacker to gain local access to the target host.
Thomas Phelps and Robert Wilensky, for their project, Robust Hyperlinks. Traditional hyperlinks are very brittle, in that they are useless if the page later moves to a different URL. This project improves upon traditional hyperlinks by creating a signature of the target page, selecting a set of very rare words that uniquely identify the page, and relying on a search engine query for those rare words to find the page in the future. For example, the Google programming contest can be found using this link.
The UK government's increasing reliance on Microsoft software has been demonstrated yet again with leaked documents regarding its new email encryption system.
...
And then during the election, Blair decided to launch his business manifesto at Microsoft's UK HQ in Reading. (He was usurped by MS using the event to publicise Windows XP.)
how often do you buy a new gfx card, maybe 1 every 2 years.
I just paid 300 pounds gb for my gf4 ti4600
150 per year 2.88 per week
but after the 2 years I dont throw them away. I could sell it for maybe 50 quid. Actually they just shuffle down the computers. My best goes into the spare PC, the spare PC's might get donated to a friend.
^^ that's more like the state of play for most people I know that copy software. They've got all the latest stuff but virtually *never* use it. It's all about saying 'I've got Photoshop X' in irc
y i realised last night maybe ppl missed the point.
my point was that the guy kept a coppy of putty on a share on hi slan. my contention is that I keep a copy of putty on a known url so wherever I am I can get to it if i need to.
I've also written a little script that will determine my DHCP ISP assigned IP from behind my firewall and post it to my co-lo so if my IP changes I can find out.
My first reaction was "so what". I perceive a value to buying a new mobo when I buy a CPU. Pennies per part matter. I think I'd rather pay when I buy the next generation than future proof this generation for the added cost. My experience has been one of losing money in this way before on hardware. *Something* seems to obselete it no matter how manufacturers try to sell me futureproofed parts.
Also one loses because they break. So it might take hardware improvements for three years but it's only got 1 year warranty anyway.
You'd probably be much better off making the script a daily (hourly?) cronjob
y, I had it like that before. I was fiddling with the Winamp3 beta and noticed that it had a playlist format I'd not tried. (.pls)
the mime type is probably audio/pls for the sake of winamp. but like i said, it worked with m3u so no matter for now.
rc - again, not really any big reason other than it's the one I used. I didn't want to paste in some/bin/sh script and it be wrong. It worked in rc so I knew it would be correct (and maybe pique some interest in rc:)
Ah, the penny drop wrt to the ask slashdot. I'd do the same solution. Install Apache. More flexible than esound, esp. if you want to remain platform neutral. Maybe one day you'll have a wireless pda walkman or something. HTTP is almost ubiquitous.
By using Apache here I have flexibility. I can request a streamed specific track, a playlist or a random stream. I even have one that can specifiy the bitrate for downsampling to save space on my mp3 walkman.
I have clients that use Window95, 98, CE!, FreeBSD and plan9. All can get the mp3s and maybe play them (that darned CE).
Ownership isn't the problem but what the true mission statement is.
In a world that says look after the profit and the social consequences will look after themselves then the user/providers interface is one of conflict.
Maybe if we were in a world that was dedicated to providing the best telecoms per user then we'd easily have fider to the door by now.
In the UK we had to sit gnashing teeth while BT made 93 GBP profit per second the dividends of which were going to private pockets rather than infastructure investment.
By breaking the UK telecoms we now have 2 struggling cable providers [:ntl & telewest] and one profit slurping behemoth [Bt]. A BT that sends a cease and desist notices if you actually use the service ['You have been using the flat-rate service too much - up to 16 hours per day - in violation of our T&Cs]. As a small but rich country we could have been world leaders in domestic telecoms, instead the users are being squeezed.
The microbes started life on earth after drifting here from across space on a comet this making the microbes god and heaven is indeed in the clouds. The image of god is water. Man, made from water, is literally made in the image of god. (mind you nothing special about man, so are cucumbers).
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who would spend $700 on a video card to give an extra 20fps (total of 150fps) on their 80hz monitor.
:) with the default config but in Dungeon Siege I get 10fps @ 1024x768x32.
Nice try but the fps plays an intrinsic part of the control system, it's proportional to the latency. At lower fps the machine cannot respond to mouse events as soon. So having a high FPS is a metric to how well the machine will respond overall.
Also, people use FPS in Quake3 as a guide. Okay one can say 'I got 3547' on 3dMark but Quake3 fps is something people can directly understand. Remember that play many games and not just Quake3. For instance I just got a GeForce4 ti4600. I get 220 fps in Quake3 (@1280x1024x32
I've never heard of anyone spending $700 for 20fps! (but that's not to say it's impossible)
As for liquid cooled, if I could be arsed/afford it I'd buy it and take a 3% performance *decrease* just to show it to people at LAN parties.
Don't be a player hater. The world would be a sadder place if people didn't play.
I'm sure these guys will do something great with this project, but call me when they add even one of the features on that list.
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you dont get it do you?
this is Open Source. If you have ideas and help that you can bring to the party then bring them. What peopl *don't* need is some smart alec standing there watching and saying
"what's the point, it's rubbish, you're wasting my time!!"
sorry but experience alone will not teach one the breadth of the subject. How, for instance, will one deduce that the re-written program would be better suited to a different programming paradigm if one has not studied the known paradigms?
Without reading about say, Functional Programming, how will one make the intuitive leap mearly by exercising the iterative.
Like *all* disciplines it is the combination of study and practice that will lead the way.
Old but never say never
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the popular mail client Pine 4.21 (and possibly earlier versions), relating to the function which regularly checks for incoming email.
The real concern here is that this requires no user interaction to exploit.. a target need only be using a vulnerable version of pine. The overflow occurs when the user recieves new email. While typically not yielding root privileges (unless root reads email with pine AS root) this can be used by a remote, anonymous attacker to gain local access to the target host.
the url
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Thomas Phelps and Robert Wilensky, for their project, Robust Hyperlinks. Traditional hyperlinks are very brittle, in that they are useless if the page later moves to a different URL. This project improves upon traditional hyperlinks by creating a signature of the target page, selecting a set of very rare words that uniquely identify the page, and relying on a search engine query for those rare words to find the page in the future. For example, the Google programming contest can be found using this link.
there is no 'free world'
it's a US Govt buzz word they use to crush whoever they like
WAKE UP
The uk seems to be taking on the worst ideas from all over the world at the moment.
Not all over the world, just from Seattle.
New Labour has an ongoing relationship with our friends.
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The UK government's increasing reliance on Microsoft software has been demonstrated yet again with leaked documents regarding its new email encryption system.
...
And then during the election, Blair decided to launch his business manifesto at Microsoft's UK HQ in Reading. (He was usurped by MS using the event to publicise Windows XP.)
how often do you buy a new gfx card, maybe 1 every 2 years.
I just paid 300 pounds gb for my gf4 ti4600
150 per year
2.88 per week
but after the 2 years I dont throw them away. I could sell it for maybe 50 quid. Actually they just shuffle down the computers. My best goes into the spare PC, the spare PC's might get donated to a friend.
I can live with that.
roll on GF5
:)
-I copy everything I can, even if I never use it
^^ that's more like the state of play for most people I know that copy software. They've got all the latest stuff but virtually *never* use it. It's all about saying 'I've got Photoshop X' in irc
*BSD, that's so retro
plan9 is my geek OS of elitism
I'm even wearing my plan9 tshirt as I type!
y i realised last night maybe ppl missed the point.
my point was that the guy kept a coppy of putty on a share on hi slan. my contention is that I keep a copy of putty on a known url so wherever I am I can get to it if i need to.
I've also written a little script that will determine my DHCP ISP assigned IP from behind my firewall and post it to my co-lo so if my IP changes I can find out.
hmm kind of I suppose
got to be a pretty good job to pre-emptively dns hijack *before* i got me client from my own web server
no dynamic library support, etc.
are you sure this is a requirement for a modern OS?
How much fragmentation can the Open Source community take?
An infinite amount.
People may say it cracks with every keystroke but it just won't break.
who needs a share
http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/putty.exe
My first reaction was "so what". I perceive a value to buying a new mobo when I buy a CPU. Pennies per part matter. I think I'd rather pay when I buy the next generation than future proof this generation for the added cost.
My experience has been one of losing money in this way before on hardware. *Something* seems to obselete it no matter how manufacturers try to sell me futureproofed parts.
Also one loses because they break. So it might take hardware improvements for three years but it's only got 1 year warranty anyway.
You'd probably be much better off making the script a daily (hourly?) cronjob
/bin/sh script and it be wrong. It worked in rc so I knew it would be correct (and maybe pique some interest in rc :)
y, I had it like that before. I was fiddling with the Winamp3 beta and noticed that it had a playlist format I'd not tried. (.pls)
the mime type is probably audio/pls for the sake of winamp. but like i said, it worked with m3u so no matter for now.
rc - again, not really any big reason other than it's the one I used. I didn't want to paste in some
Ah, the penny drop wrt to the ask slashdot.
I'd do the same solution. Install Apache. More flexible than esound, esp. if you want to remain platform neutral. Maybe one day you'll have a wireless pda walkman or something. HTTP is almost ubiquitous.
By using Apache here I have flexibility. I can request a streamed specific track, a playlist or a random stream. I even have one that can specifiy the bitrate for downsampling to save space on my mp3 walkman.
I have clients that use Window95, 98, CE!, FreeBSD and plan9. All can get the mp3s and maybe play them (that darned CE).
Ownership isn't the problem but what the true mission statement is.
:)
In a world that says look after the profit and the social consequences will look after themselves then the user/providers interface is one of conflict.
Maybe if we were in a world that was dedicated to providing the best telecoms per user then we'd easily have fider to the door by now.
In the UK we had to sit gnashing teeth while BT made 93 GBP profit per second the dividends of which were going to private pockets rather than infastructure investment.
By breaking the UK telecoms we now have 2 struggling cable providers [:ntl & telewest] and one profit slurping behemoth [Bt]. A BT that sends a cease and desist notices if you actually use the service ['You have been using the flat-rate service too much - up to 16 hours per day - in violation of our T&Cs]. As a small but rich country we could have been world leaders in domestic telecoms, instead the users are being squeezed.
oh well, I get mine for free anyway
if the mp3's are on your nix box
/home/media/mp3/* -regex '.*3$' | sed 's/\/home\/media\/mp3\///' | awk 'BEGIN{i=0} {i=i+1; printf "File%d=http://devil.lucid/mp3/%s\nTitle%d=%s\nLen gth%d=-1\n", i,gensub(" ", "%20", "g"), i, $0, i} END { printf "NumberOfEntries=%d\nVersion=2", i}'
you want them to play in windows
why not use Apache and winamp
works great for me
here's my playlist generator (not 100% on the MIME type now I see it here but it works in Winamp 3 Beta)
#!/usr/local/bin/rc
# rc is the unix port of plan9's shell
echo Content-Type: audio/m3u
echo
echo [playlist]
find
repeat after me
f i c t i o n
unless it's adaptation was "appeal to genetic scientists as a good candidate for a Polymerase Chain Reaction"
It was on BBC2 on a Sunday night
The guy taught me cinema through tv and I'll be always greatful.
We do have independent cinemas in the UK though.
My local one is The Broadway
You can get world cinema films on DVD and VHS for sale / rent here
The microbes started life on earth after drifting here from across space on a comet this making the microbes god and heaven is indeed in the clouds. The image of god is water. Man, made from water, is literally made in the image of god. (mind you nothing special about man, so are cucumbers).
but you're not in prison now, that's a major difference
remember communism doesn't start with concentratin camps, that's where it ends