why would you want to spend $300 on a throw-away unit?
I bought the $300 throw-away Dell was selling about three years ago. It got me a 2.5G P4 Celeron w/ 256M RAM and a 30 gig HD. Saved some money opting for FreeDOS instead of Windows, and just installed Linux on it. It serves me VERY well as a spare bedroom PC, internet access for my wife (when I'm using the laptop), private network caching DNS, IMAP mail, web server (for off-site webmail), etc etc. It's also gotten a Hauppauge PVR-350 and another half gig of RAM last year to become a MythTV frontend. For $300, and since I couldn't afford anything else at the time, it worked beautifully. To run Windows on this thing would be somewhat stupid, but certainly possible if it's what I really needed. At the time, though, it was a good buy.
And if any PR company produced that, they're seriously over paid.
Afraid you're missing the point. YouTube is largely community-produced content, often full of drunken dancing / buffoonery and clips from TV shows, etc. This clip was designed to "fit in" and look as amateurish as the rest of the tripe on YouTube to pass the smell test for most of the content there.
TiVo hackers have in the past taken great pains not to offend TiVo corporate so as to continue to promote legitimate use of the box (and surely to avoid lawsuit and/or TiVo making the thing harder to hack) but still provide helpful services for hobbyists interested in tinkering with them.
I recall a lot of sites devoted to ghosting the TiVo drive and hacking the thing also saying they specifically would NOT provide instructions on how to circumvent the TiVo subscription model, and I imagine the numerous software upgrades pushed out to the Series 2 box I own has made it more difficult to crack than it used to be on the Series 1 machines. Probably the Canadian site felt they HAD to provide that kind of material so they could get Canadian TV listings, but now that TiVo is providing proper support for Canadian users, it's no longer strictly necessary to dump the TiVo subscription, even though that definitely appeals to me and plenty of others...
How can we tell, unless everything that they're doing is completely transparent? Sure, doing so will completely undermine security, but people who value security aren't deserving of liberty, blah blah, right?
But these agencies who "value security" apparently don't value the law. A fundamental right of every American is their privilege to receive due process, and be protected against unreasonable search and seizure. Federal agencies can't ignore laws or they risk having their entire investigations exposed and ruled unusable in court. Whose interest does that serve?
RTFA - you can change the setting via a user preference:
For those who remain concerned, here's how the feature works. Firefox has a preference browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers which by default is set to -1. [...] You can set it to 0 to disable the feature, but your page load performance will suffer.
Not to mention a great deal of the reason for the success of OS X was its inclusion of Carbon for a smooth transition from the OS 9 APIs in addition to things their developers were already well-versed in, namely the NeXTStep namespaces and Obj-C, the mach microkernel, and PDF for Quartz.
No, it means Google has indexed a page that appears (to googlebot) to contain something legitimate, and visiting the actual page by clicking the link silently redirects you to an illegitimate site (usually phish/scam copy of same, etc).
Which is not a hole, so much as, say, "common sense." It's like saying I can record songs off the radio without paying royalties so I'm STEALING FROM THE ARTIST. C'mon.
You are making a very strange combination there, comparing Rather to the other two cases, especially Guckert.
All I meant by it was to point out, hey, journalism? - standards, not so great right now. Guckert was turned into more of a Bush administration scandal (and admittedly, not much of one) - and while I used to adore Rather and most of the nightly anchors, I was disappointed with his reaction to the investigation about the Bush Guard documents. They fucked up, he shouldn't have been quite so indignant about being investigated. I don't fault him per se, more his attitude, which revealed some obvious bias - never okay for a "just the facts" journalist as he's supposed to be.
I don't buy the "someone wanted to bury Rather" or "someone wanted to bury the Kerry campaign" argument. Shit, the Kerry campaign did enough to bury itself without any help from CBS News. The best paranoid theory I think I heard by far was that Karl Rove was behind it. C'mon. It's not terribly surprising that with the pressure the networks are under, that there would be gaffes like this in reporting, and any speculation as to "the real killer" just misses the point.
Depends on what you mean by "journalism"
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What with journalistic ethics taking a number of hits over the past few years (Jayson Blair, Dan Rather, "Jeff Gannon", et al) - and, Mac rumor "blogs" aside, the mainstream media is beginning to pay heed to bloggers at all levels of the news cycle. Just recently Garrett Graf, who runs the political blog FishbowlDC, was granted access to the White House Press Briefing - the same thing Guckert/Gannon was maligned for attending without any "real" credentials.
Graf is the former editor of the Harvard Crimson, but he's not a journalist in the traditional sense, and he represents the first "legit" blogger allowed into the press gaggle. I'd say that's a very positive sign.
I think his point is that modern-day *nix code is preprocessor-happy, not necessarily slower to compile, because it has too broad a potential audience (different architectures, cpus, distros) and code is too cumbersome to write in that situation.
I disagree, but I do love the digs at C James Joyce made in his k5 rant.:)
Eh, that's fair. Considering I have well over 50 hours into setting the thing up and getting it sanitized to start up and actually function as a PVR, I'd say that's not "mainstream" by any means. But it's worth mentioning that the last release, while a bit shorter on features, ran extremely well and with verrry few interruptions.
It's a shame, too; they obviously put a lot of work into this update.
Nah, it's a PVR 250, and 0.16 ran like a champ. Dunno if it's an IVTV problem (I'm on the latest stable now) or a Myth problem, but I'm gradually concluding the latter.
I'm sorry, apparently I'm on crack today. You don't capture via S-video/Composite because the signal's HD, so that's no help. Video will definitely come down the FW pipe, though; that may be how the devs are doing it. Fun for another day, I suppose...
Not necessarily. Myth 0.17 allows the firewire-enabled cable boxes with HD channels to be controlled from the PC (so it can change the channel when you do a channel-up/channel-down or start recording). The video can theoretically go both ways over that firewire connection too, but the way I understand it you'd use an S-Video or composite-out cable to your PVR (and back to the TV) to see the on-screen display on your TV and just use the FW link to change channels automatically.
Now they could still encrypt those channels over the FW-out, but early reports on the mailing list say most providers haven't done that yet.
Slightly OT, but that 0.17 release is really chapping my ass. I've had the backend crash repeatedly over the past several days; a few hours of live TV and it just quits. Ditto with FF/rewind in recording playback - it skips like a motherfucker and then freezes waiting for the file stream to catch up (and usually gives up after five seconds or so).
Because Linus appoints release managers for each kernel version, and if he gets to keep Andrew Morton around a little longer so they can keep working together on it, he'd like to.
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why would you want to spend $300 on a throw-away unit?
I bought the $300 throw-away Dell was selling about three years ago. It got me a 2.5G P4 Celeron w/ 256M RAM and a 30 gig HD. Saved some money opting for FreeDOS instead of Windows, and just installed Linux on it. It serves me VERY well as a spare bedroom PC, internet access for my wife (when I'm using the laptop), private network caching DNS, IMAP mail, web server (for off-site webmail), etc etc. It's also gotten a Hauppauge PVR-350 and another half gig of RAM last year to become a MythTV frontend. For $300, and since I couldn't afford anything else at the time, it worked beautifully. To run Windows on this thing would be somewhat stupid, but certainly possible if it's what I really needed. At the time, though, it was a good buy.
And if any PR company produced that, they're seriously over paid.
Afraid you're missing the point. YouTube is largely community-produced content, often full of drunken dancing / buffoonery and clips from TV shows, etc. This clip was designed to "fit in" and look as amateurish as the rest of the tripe on YouTube to pass the smell test for most of the content there.
I'd say they did their job brilliantly.
Really? Because klash gave that article the treatment it deserved better than I ever could.
Try E_STRICT, which for some reason is not included in E_ALL (though the meeting notes state they'll change this for PHP6).
TiVo hackers have in the past taken great pains not to offend TiVo corporate so as to continue to promote legitimate use of the box (and surely to avoid lawsuit and/or TiVo making the thing harder to hack) but still provide helpful services for hobbyists interested in tinkering with them.
I recall a lot of sites devoted to ghosting the TiVo drive and hacking the thing also saying they specifically would NOT provide instructions on how to circumvent the TiVo subscription model, and I imagine the numerous software upgrades pushed out to the Series 2 box I own has made it more difficult to crack than it used to be on the Series 1 machines. Probably the Canadian site felt they HAD to provide that kind of material so they could get Canadian TV listings, but now that TiVo is providing proper support for Canadian users, it's no longer strictly necessary to dump the TiVo subscription, even though that definitely appeals to me and plenty of others...
You might be thinking of tivoguide.
and I can always tell the difference in code between a real programmer and Visual Studio Wizards
So can I. The #Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " seems to be a bit of a giveaway, no?
How can we tell, unless everything that they're doing is completely transparent? Sure, doing so will completely undermine security, but people who value security aren't deserving of liberty, blah blah, right?
But these agencies who "value security" apparently don't value the law. A fundamental right of every American is their privilege to receive due process, and be protected against unreasonable search and seizure. Federal agencies can't ignore laws or they risk having their entire investigations exposed and ruled unusable in court. Whose interest does that serve?
RTFA - you can change the setting via a user preference:
For those who remain concerned, here's how the feature works. Firefox has a preference browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers which by default is set to -1. [...] You can set it to 0 to disable the feature, but your page load performance will suffer.
i'd have more respect for the authors had they not shamelessly ripped off the notpron site and declined to credit anyone with the idea.
yay python!
Not to mention a great deal of the reason for the success of OS X was its inclusion of Carbon for a smooth transition from the OS 9 APIs in addition to things their developers were already well-versed in, namely the NeXTStep namespaces and Obj-C, the mach microkernel, and PDF for Quartz.
BeOS, IIRC, had none of this.
still have to get them on the psp, and 2000 songs vs maybe 2 movies doesn't make this a very compelling combo at the moment.
No, it means Google has indexed a page that appears (to googlebot) to contain something legitimate, and visiting the actual page by clicking the link silently redirects you to an illegitimate site (usually phish/scam copy of same, etc).
Which is not a hole, so much as, say, "common sense." It's like saying I can record songs off the radio without paying royalties so I'm STEALING FROM THE ARTIST. C'mon.
Anyone know what kind of sentence this guy is potentially facing?
You are making a very strange combination there, comparing Rather to the other two cases, especially Guckert.
All I meant by it was to point out, hey, journalism? - standards, not so great right now. Guckert was turned into more of a Bush administration scandal (and admittedly, not much of one) - and while I used to adore Rather and most of the nightly anchors, I was disappointed with his reaction to the investigation about the Bush Guard documents. They fucked up, he shouldn't have been quite so indignant about being investigated. I don't fault him per se, more his attitude, which revealed some obvious bias - never okay for a "just the facts" journalist as he's supposed to be.
I don't buy the "someone wanted to bury Rather" or "someone wanted to bury the Kerry campaign" argument. Shit, the Kerry campaign did enough to bury itself without any help from CBS News. The best paranoid theory I think I heard by far was that Karl Rove was behind it. C'mon. It's not terribly surprising that with the pressure the networks are under, that there would be gaffes like this in reporting, and any speculation as to "the real killer" just misses the point.
What with journalistic ethics taking a number of hits over the past few years (Jayson Blair, Dan Rather, "Jeff Gannon", et al) - and, Mac rumor "blogs" aside, the mainstream media is beginning to pay heed to bloggers at all levels of the news cycle. Just recently Garrett Graf, who runs the political blog FishbowlDC, was granted access to the White House Press Briefing - the same thing Guckert/Gannon was maligned for attending without any "real" credentials.
Graf is the former editor of the Harvard Crimson, but he's not a journalist in the traditional sense, and he represents the first "legit" blogger allowed into the press gaggle. I'd say that's a very positive sign.
I think his point is that modern-day *nix code is preprocessor-happy, not necessarily slower to compile, because it has too broad a potential audience (different architectures, cpus, distros) and code is too cumbersome to write in that situation.
:)
I disagree, but I do love the digs at C James Joyce made in his k5 rant.
Eh, that's fair. Considering I have well over 50 hours into setting the thing up and getting it sanitized to start up and actually function as a PVR, I'd say that's not "mainstream" by any means. But it's worth mentioning that the last release, while a bit shorter on features, ran extremely well and with verrry few interruptions.
It's a shame, too; they obviously put a lot of work into this update.
Nah, it's a PVR 250, and 0.16 ran like a champ. Dunno if it's an IVTV problem (I'm on the latest stable now) or a Myth problem, but I'm gradually concluding the latter.
I'm sorry, apparently I'm on crack today. You don't capture via S-video/Composite because the signal's HD, so that's no help. Video will definitely come down the FW pipe, though; that may be how the devs are doing it. Fun for another day, I suppose...
Not necessarily. Myth 0.17 allows the firewire-enabled cable boxes with HD channels to be controlled from the PC (so it can change the channel when you do a channel-up/channel-down or start recording). The video can theoretically go both ways over that firewire connection too, but the way I understand it you'd use an S-Video or composite-out cable to your PVR (and back to the TV) to see the on-screen display on your TV and just use the FW link to change channels automatically.
Now they could still encrypt those channels over the FW-out, but early reports on the mailing list say most providers haven't done that yet.
Slightly OT, but that 0.17 release is really chapping my ass. I've had the backend crash repeatedly over the past several days; a few hours of live TV and it just quits. Ditto with FF/rewind in recording playback - it skips like a motherfucker and then freezes waiting for the file stream to catch up (and usually gives up after five seconds or so).
Because Linus appoints release managers for each kernel version, and if he gets to keep Andrew Morton around a little longer so they can keep working together on it, he'd like to.
At least, that's how I see it.
That must've been a fun courtship.
"C'mon, baby, let me show you my pointer."