Dude! I don't know about your telco but in most telcos's SMS network, it's the sender who pays for the SMS. Most likely, that 100 messages that is your wife's subscription plan is for outgoing messages, not incoming messages. If the receiver is paying for every received messages, then subscribe to another telco.
Hmm... the source code is not yet available for download. I've been looking for it (even before the announcement on Slashdot). I wonder why the source is not available. People like me prefer to use the source for further optimizations and to enable some features not available on the downloadable installers, tgzs, etc, like SVG support to name one.
It's kinda ironic.. a few articles back we have an Office XP killer and now we have a version of Crossover that would run office.
Being able to run M$ Office under Linux is fine, but I defintely like native apps that would offer almost 100% compatible import/export filters for M$ Office files.
This may be good news, but what the heck! They should have at least included the.config that they used so that we can know what drivers/modules that are compiled with it, or maybe this is just bare-bones kernel enough to run the basic. We need to know the complexity of the configuration before we could really say it's fast.
SPAM via SMS would be a problem for spammers compared to email. Why you ask? In most parts of the worl, SMS is not free. In in those areas wherein SMS is not free, most of time, they charge you per message instead of a fixed monthly rate for unlimited SMS sending. So in other words, SMS costs would be a burden on part of the spammer. In this part of the world where I live, an SMS costs almost 2 cents (USD), while the other neighboring countries costs at least 4 cents per message you send. (I live somewhere in SE Asia.)
At least in my own experience, I think Ogg-Vorbis files sound much better than MP3 if you're using the same bit-rate (nominal bit-rate for Vorbis of course). Take note, DON'T TEST IT BY RE-ENCODING YOUR MP3 TO OGG. It will sound worse of course because more losses will be introduced. Using the original (as in ripping music from your audio CD) would do the trick. Tested this using some classical music, acoustic rock, metal, and some techno. the sound of the instruments are reproduced better with Ogg-Vorbis files. Like the sound of cymbals, acoustic guitar, very low frequency instruments don't get reproduced correctly on MP3s compared to Vorbis.
BTW, I used Bladenc and lib-vorbis Beta-4 , both for Linux of course. Even if I use other Windows based encoders, still the same results.
First, I suggest that you compile the kernel driver by yourself. Also, make sure that with 2.2.16, you must have agpgart compiled in your kernel or as a module. If you have it as a module, I suggest that you load it just before compiling the driver. I don't know, experienced some similar problem, but apparently, this seems to work for me.
Well, at least with Linux, with those bugs listed, I can fix it myself because the source code is available. But Microsoft's OS, man the bugs are listed and you have to wait for a long time for the bugs to be fixed. Heck, Microsoft might not even fix those bugs. Just look at how Back Orifice and tools like that. The issue is still not yet addressed. I won't be surprised if CODC releases a version for Win2000 and Microsoft ignores it
You guys are familiar with diassmblers right? You know, those tools that convert executable binaries to assmbly language code. Do you think this type of source code can be protected by your First Ammendment thinggy? (I'm not a US citizen nor am I in the US. i'm free to encrypt.;) )
Hi Patrick! I'm a "not so new" Linux user (last year actually) and I have tried several Linux distributions. So far, in my opinion, of the distributions I'v tried, I think Slackware has the kind of installation program that's really cool, even as a new user. I said its cool because I it's custom installation is much more flexible than the others that I have tried. However, after a few months I've switched distribution because It really took a long time before Slackware adopted glibc2. My question is, how will you guys keep up with the frequent upgrades the competitors are doing? Will you also follow them into introducing more firendly installtion (graphical)? I just hope that when you do, it's sitll as customizable as the Slackware I've known before.:)
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Hey! Green Destiny is the sword they're fighting over at Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Sorry for semi-OT post.
Kinda late but I haven't seen any security mods until I saw this mod!
Dude! I don't know about your telco but in most telcos's SMS network, it's the sender who pays for the SMS. Most likely, that 100 messages that is your wife's subscription plan is for outgoing messages, not incoming messages. If the receiver is paying for every received messages, then subscribe to another telco.
Hmm... the source code is not yet available for download. I've been looking for it (even before the announcement on Slashdot). I wonder why the source is not available. People like me prefer to use the source for further optimizations and to enable some features not available on the downloadable installers, tgzs, etc, like SVG support to name one.
It's kinda ironic.. a few articles back we have an Office XP killer and now we have a version of Crossover that would run office.
Being able to run M$ Office under Linux is fine, but I defintely like native apps that would offer almost 100% compatible import/export filters for M$ Office files.
This may be good news, but what the heck! They should have at least included the .config that they used so that we can know what drivers/modules that are compiled with it, or maybe this is just bare-bones kernel enough to run the basic. We need to know the complexity of the configuration before we could really say it's fast.
SPAM via SMS would be a problem for spammers compared to email. Why you ask? In most parts of the worl, SMS is not free. In in those areas wherein SMS is not free, most of time, they charge you per message instead of a fixed monthly rate for unlimited SMS sending. So in other words, SMS costs would be a burden on part of the spammer. In this part of the world where I live, an SMS costs almost 2 cents (USD), while the other neighboring countries costs at least 4 cents per message you send. (I live somewhere in SE Asia.)
"... which means it is all hackable."
;)
I bet you CPU overclockers will overclock whatever's inside IT just to get the extra speed.
"Ants in your P2Pants"
What the hell... I thought somebody has diabetes of something... Ants in your Pee to Pants.
Oh wait...
At least in my own experience, I think Ogg-Vorbis files sound much better than MP3 if you're using the same bit-rate (nominal bit-rate for Vorbis of course). Take note, DON'T TEST IT BY RE-ENCODING YOUR MP3 TO OGG. It will sound worse of course because more losses will be introduced. Using the original (as in ripping music from your audio CD) would do the trick. Tested this using some classical music, acoustic rock, metal, and some techno. the sound of the instruments are reproduced better with Ogg-Vorbis files. Like the sound of cymbals, acoustic guitar, very low frequency instruments don't get reproduced correctly on MP3s compared to Vorbis.
BTW, I used Bladenc and lib-vorbis Beta-4 , both for Linux of course. Even if I use other Windows based encoders, still the same results.
I can almost see it... a few years from now... GNU IS NOW UNIX!
BWAHAHAHAHA!
First, I suggest that you compile the kernel driver by yourself. Also, make sure that with 2.2.16, you must have agpgart compiled in your kernel or as a module. If you have it as a module, I suggest that you load it just before compiling the driver. I don't know, experienced some similar problem, but apparently, this seems to work for me.
Well, at least with Linux, with those bugs listed, I can fix it myself because the source code is available. But Microsoft's OS, man the bugs are listed and you have to wait for a long time for the bugs to be fixed. Heck, Microsoft might not even fix those bugs. Just look at how Back Orifice and tools like that. The issue is still not yet addressed. I won't be surprised if CODC releases a version for Win2000 and Microsoft ignores it
You guys are familiar with diassmblers right? You know, those tools that convert executable binaries to assmbly language code. Do you think this type of source code can be protected by your First Ammendment thinggy? (I'm not a US citizen nor am I in the US. i'm free to encrypt. ;) )
Hi Patrick! I'm a "not so new" Linux user (last year actually) and I have tried several Linux distributions. So far, in my opinion, of the distributions I'v tried, I think Slackware has the kind of installation program that's really cool, even as a new user. I said its cool because I it's custom installation is much more flexible than the others that I have tried. However, after a few months I've switched distribution because It really took a long time before Slackware adopted glibc2. My question is, how will you guys keep up with the frequent upgrades the competitors are doing? Will you also follow them into introducing more firendly installtion (graphical)? I just hope that when you do, it's sitll as customizable as the Slackware I've known before. :)