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  1. The top of the page on Buy John Romero's Ferrari On EBay · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
    The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
    Apache/1.3.20 Server at rome.ro Port 80
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:38:21 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 mod_bwlimited/0.8 PHP/4.0.6 DAV/1.0.2 mod_log_bytes/0.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6
    Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
    The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
    Apache/1.3.20 Server at rome.ro Port 80

    Yeah, that is slightly disturbing. You would think he would have a real ISP.

  2. Re:Are you mad? on USPS Irradiation Damages Electronics · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And even more surprising is that 25,000 people die silently of starvation every day.

    Yet the government doesn't take notice of them.

  3. Re:Notebook sound on New External Sound "Card" · · Score: 2

    Most analog table is around 60-70, but people do make espcially good decks that do much bettter. I used to know of one, but I can't find it now.

    For cd players, there are some decks that have incredibly_ SNR like the Nakamichi Dragon.

  4. NANOG on Using RFC 1918 IP Addresses on Internal Routers? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is a topic that has been flamed^H^H^H^H^H debated to death on the North American Network Operators Group(NANOG) Mailing List

    Its a great list, and has a lot of very knowledgable people on it.

  5. Re:Side topic.... on Ogg Vorbis RC3 Released · · Score: 2

    I have to disagree with recommending the MDR-7506. I own a pair and I love them, but their fidelity isn't great. They are indestructable (well almost), fold nicely, and provide great isolation from the out side but their high end is very warped and the low end is over emphasized. The short version: they're great for live sound stuff, but if you're doing anything sensitive on them you either need to listen to them against lots of speakers (and learn where it over/under emphasizes things) or use different headphones.

    I really love them, but there are places when my HD580 really do preform better.

  6. Re:how good is the Excel import? on Gnumeric 1.0 Has Arrived · · Score: 2

    >> Also, "save as Gnumeric XML file format" produces a binary file. I've never seen a binary XML file before...

    On some versions of gnumeric it saves it as a gzip'd binary file.

  7. Re:Where are the Debian packages? on Quicktime Under Linux With MPlayer · · Score: 1

    apt-cache search mplayer
    mplayer - The Ultimate Movie Player

    apt-cache show mplayer
    Package: mplayer
    Status: install ok installed
    Priority: optional
    Section: misc
    Installed-Size: 2540
    Maintainer: Dariush Pietrzak
    Version: 0.50-1
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-2.1), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20010310-1), libpng2 (>= 1.0.12), libsdl1.2debian, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3), debconf, libconfhelper-perl
    Description: The Ultimate Movie Player
    MPlayer is a movie player for Un*x. It plays most MPEG, AVI and ASF files,
    supported by many native and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and even
    DivX movies with MPlayer.
    .
    MPlayer supports a wide range of output drivers: X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL,
    SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, GGI, SDL . You can use SDL and thus all the SDL
    drivers. Same goes for GGI.
    There are some low-level card-specific drivers (e.g. Matrox). Most of the
    drivers support either software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy
    movies in full screen mode.
    .Package: mplayer
    Status: install ok installed
    Priority: optional
    Section: misc
    Installed-Size: 2540
    Maintainer: Dariush Pietrzak
    Version: 0.50-1
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-2.1), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20010310-1), libpng2 (>= 1.0.12), libsdl1.2debian, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3), debconf, libconfhelper-perl
    Description: The Ultimate Movie Player
    MPlayer is a movie player for Un*x. It plays most MPEG, AVI and ASF files,
    supported by many native and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and even
    DivX movies with MPlayer.
    .
    MPlayer supports a wide range of output drivers: X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL,
    SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, GGI, SDL . You can use SDL and thus all the SDL
    drivers. Same goes for GGI.
    There are some low-level card-specific drivers (e.g. Matrox). Most of the
    drivers support either software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy
    movies in full screen mode.
    .
    MPlayer has nice, big antialiased shaded subtitles (7 supported types!)
    with Hungarian, English, Cyrillic, Czech and Korean fonts, and OSD.

    It works for me atleast. Im using unstable.
    MPlayer has nice, big antialiased shaded subtitles (7 supported types!)
    with Hungarian, English, Cyrillic, Czech and Korean fonts, and OSD.

  8. I did! on Who Works During the Holidays? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm a volunteer firefighter and I ended up pulling a 12 hour shift christmas eve-christmas day. I figured : "Hey, I'm young, unattached why not?", and it wasn't that bad. I higly encourage anyone who has any interest in become a firefighter to look in to it. It's great fun, very rewarding, and a chance to help people. Personally, I think that this year's christmas eve was the best I've had in a while, It was very nice to completely avoid the commercialism that sometimes surounds christmas.

    Merry Christmas! Be Safe!

  9. Re:Live is *aging*? on Testing the Audigy · · Score: 1

    I've seen a couple people try to answer, but none really got a great shot.

    Yes, in a purely digital sense you would get a square wave coming out but the important thing is that the digital signal is bandlimited. A square wave can be thought of an inifite sum of sine waves all with increasing frequency but for the case you've described all the components of the square wave (except for the 10khz tone) are _above_ the bandlimit. That's why the filter is there. If it isn't the processes is called aliasing and it sounds _awful_. Look at Fourier's Sampling Theorem for more info.

    What the original poster may have been trying to use was the Nyquist Theorem which says that if you have a sampling rate f you can only reporduce signals with frequency f/2. A normal cd uses a 44khz sampling rate, so you get sounds with a frequency less than 22khz. And thats the perfect case. With the input and output filters very often you get crappy filters that but audible artifacts into the signal. When you pick a filter it _has_ to be taking out all the data above it by the time you get to the nyquist frequency. Now a 6db/octave filter has less phase effects than a steeper filter but it will need to start acting around 16khz or so. A 12db/octave filter will start acting later, but sound worse. The way to solve this? Jack up the sample rate. If you sample at 96khz then your nyquist frequency is much higher(48khz!), so you can use a gentle filter and not lose audio data. Thats why new audio formats use 96khz.

  10. Real Life on Uplink · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forbidden
    You don't have permission to access / on this server.

    Apache/1.3.19 Server at www.introversion.co.uk Port 80

    Looks like someone played the real life version, and introversion lost.

  11. Re:Ellis299@aol.com on Cable Co's Want More Control Over Your Network · · Score: 1

    Theres a good chance she works for AOL. I know its scary, but AOL uses AOL for email internally (do you know how scary it is to get email from a VP that has an address like eileen789! This was a VP who is 3rd from the top or so).

    It just means she might be an employee of AOL/TW

  12. Re:Static PHP + scripts running as users on Covalent's Version of Apache 2.0 To Drop Monday · · Score: 1

    Actually the way they do it is there is an MPm called perchild. With the perchild scheme each process runs under a different userid(to replace suexec), so you would have php scripts run as a different user.

    You can see more about MPMs here

  13. Re:chrisd? on Kernel 2.4.14 is out · · Score: 1

    chrisd == Chris Dibona

  14. Re:16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit... on MS DOS: A Eulogy · · Score: 1

    I think /opt has a valid reason to exist. /usr/local is for things that didn't come with the base system, and /opt works well for applications(or appication suites) that are add-ons. I find it nicer to install things like mathematica in /opt and then fix config files to in clude their libs and fonts rather than letting them slowly pollute my /usr/local tree.

  15. Re:16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit... on MS DOS: A Eulogy · · Score: 1

    /opt its for things that are complete sets of applications(usually add on packages). Its nice beacuse you know that the application is nicely contained, and its easy to remove(usually).

    For example I have /opt/mathematica /opt/vmware etc.

  16. changelog on GNU Emacs 21 · · Score: 1

    The changelog I saw was about 40 commits without log messages.

    Anyone know what _actually_ changed?

  17. Re:what's the difference? on VIM 6.0 is Out · · Score: 1

    Here is my guess, he means C-x C-s (save file) which will turn on flow control on some terms (untill you press C-q)

    I know beacuse I use both vi and emacs, and I have a habit of doing it.

  18. Re:You forgot.. on VIM 6.0 is Out · · Score: 3, Funny

    None of those dirty, GNU loving, emacs using hippies sell things though

  19. Re:BIOS with Serial port console? on Booting A PIII System In .8 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I bought a box from VA Linux, and its bios had an option to redirect the console to /dev/ttyS0 (and the EMP port on S1)

  20. Re:1/4U doesn't mean 1/4 cheaper for a server spac on 1/4 Width Rack-mount Linux Servers · · Score: 1

    It used to be that when you bought space in a colo center you paid for the number of racks you used and the amount of bandwidth(plus extras for more crossconnects and stuff) Then along came google. Google found a way to get, IIRC 192, a lot metric shitload of machines in one rack. They drew so much power, that the surrounding cages were unusable. Now you pay for the rackspace, the bandwidth, and for each 20 amp circut(generally). What does this mean? For people who need large clusters their hosting costs will go down. The rackspace (generally bought in units of entire racks) runs somewhere between $600 - 1400 (US) a month, depending on your provider. So while it wont be a direct drop in colo costs, this could be big for some poeple.

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    *Not a Sermon, Just a Thought
    */

  21. Re:Imagine this: on Linus Says No To Annoying Boot Messages · · Score: 1

    lspci ? theres a reason for utilities like it.

    /*
    *Not a Sermon, Just a Thought
    */

  22. My title. on Amusing Job Titles for Business Cards? · · Score: 1

    "Systems Monkey" I worked under the "Chief Fireeater"(a.k.a Systems Manager)

    /*
    *Not a Sermon, Just a Thought
    */

  23. Re:But arg format is totally nonstandard and fucke on The Pentagon Discovers dd · · Score: 1

    No, its beacuse pipes are the most effcient things, espcially for gigs and gigs of data. Thats why you pass them explicitly.

    /*
    *Not a Sermon, Just a Thought
    */

  24. Re:Yes, and...? on C&W De-Peers PSInet · · Score: 1

    One generally accepted definition for Tier-1 is a) full routing tables b) they don't pay for transit(For their backbone atleast). I'm not sure PSINet would bring it on themselves to buy transit from C&W

    /*
    *Not a Sermon, Just a Thought
    */

  25. Re:Yes, and...? on C&W De-Peers PSInet · · Score: 1

    PSINet is still a pretty big player, but it would seem that since neither PSINet nor C&W have full routing tables anymore, neither is really a tier 1 ISP. Yes, I know its only 1200 some routes they are missing, but still. My guess: They'll do what Exodus and AboveNet had to do when they were in similar situations, buy transit on someone else (like sprint or verio) just for C&W's traffic.

    /*
    *Not a Sermon, Just a Thought
    */