I however have been using SongMeanings as of late. For you Winamp users, there is also a plugin that will display the lyrics for your currently playing song.
There are some songs that I would have thought would be on there that aren't, but you can always add your own if they are missing.
Here is an opportunity to sell a network appliance that you can just drop into your network and have it secure your IIS server.
Just put a simple installation of Linux/*BSD/etc and a copy of Apache+modules to do this. Put a web based administration utility on it for configuring IP addresses and what-not and let it do it's thing. You could also include an update system (something along the lines of Norton Antivirus LiveUpdate) that grabs updates so it can filter any new HTTP requests that show up that can harm an IIS server as well as any holes that may show up in the appliance itself.
PHB's seem to be fond of "black boxes" even if they do run Linux. But there is no way that they'd ever allow a regular old computer run Linux, it's not the Microsoft way! Oh, the irony, but anyway.
I think it is now time to find myself a nice embeded computer...
There is OpenLGX. It appears to be still in development, but I do believe some copies are floating around somewhere. The website has recently changed and all information about OpenLGX is gone. It looked pretty promosing before though, maybe even better than Flash itself. Hopefully more info about it surfaces soon, even better would be a product.
You've got that right. The nearest half-decent music store is an hour's drive away from me. I can download a whole album in say 10 minutes. I can then burn the CD in say 40 minutes (I have an old 2x burner) so that's just 50 minutes. The other way I'd spend 2 hours in travel time and ~30 minutes finding/buying CD. That's 2.5 hours! I think the choice is obvious.
Oh yeah, and during that 50 minutes I only have to spend say 5 minutes (max) to set the computer up to do all of that and I can do something else in the mean time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost certain there is such a thing as a 3 bit computer. 1, 0 and a third state. I can't find anything out there about it so maybe I just totally dreamt the whole thing? Hopefully someone out there knows more about these systems.
How about an IP address, assigned at birth.. Thats where you can host your site. Of course you always have jealousy over the really cool IP numbers, but hey, No copyright problems.
Sounds good in theory, but if the doctors had it thier way, they'd lease you a DHCP address or even worse use PPPoE. Oh and you'd better not be listening for any conversations, you may only initiate them, or you will violate your TOS.
I agree, if all I/O devices had thier own address you could have a keyboard and monitor and control a machine half way around the world without you even having a computer locally! If monitors acted like x-clients for example, you could have your web browser up on screen, and at the same time have a video feed coming in and displayed on your TV all from the same computer. You could also run another application on a different monitor much like having dual screens now, but you wouldn't even need an extra video card and you could display to as many screens as you'd like! In the thin-client world you wouldn't even need a local machine either, all keyboards and screens would just connect to the network and the "mainframe" would do the rest (sounds alot like dumb terminals again, doesn't it?).
I think this would be a great new way of interfacing components if the security concerns could be worked out. Since the new business computing model seems to be heading back to dumb terminals maybe this is the ideal way to implement it? Bandwidth/latency issues aside you wouldn't even need to have the computers in the same building, just need a network connection.
With IPv6 on it's way (or so we hope) this could be an ideal way of computing. If security issues could be solved, are there any other pitfalls I'm missing? I think this would be a great system for interfacing componets!
You've got that right about PHP. Their language reference section of the site is superb. It makes it quite easy to program in PHP when you have the whole API with in-depth information at your finger tips. They also allow user comments about each function which can even more deeply explain what the function does, or how it can be extended.
I would definitly recommend you look at that for some ideas. But definitely, like others have already mentioned, include lots of example code, that's the best way to see how something works.
If you can get some sort of video stream into these frames then you can do just about anything with them. How about a real-time usage graph from your webserver (code red anyone?). You could get a couple of them and use them as side-view mirrors in race car games. What about a tiny X-terminal? If you are really talented, you could get a bunch of them and make one big makeshift LCD screen.
Then again, you could use them to display photos! They just need to be bigger and hang on the wall so you can use them to display paintings when you aren't using them, but can also be used for tv/computer/etc.
Assuming Prodigy (or insert your ISP here) doesn't block VPN connections, you could estabilish a private net back to the office, then all traffic would be routed (and encrypted I might add) through the VPN. The ISP then would have no control over, or even know what is sent over this private link.
VPN's are also great if you need access to computers behind your firewall.
HEADER: 16 bits: (Integer) Height
16 bits: (Integer) Width
Defines height and width (in pixels) of the video
8 bits: Red
8 bits: Green
8 bits: Blue
Defines colour for bit 0
8 bits: Red
8 bits: Green
8 bits: Blue
Defines colour for bit 1
STREAM: 1 bit
Defines the colour used
Header is sent at the beginning of the file and the stream follows. Bandwidth must achive 30bps (for full motion video). Sound is not yet implemented into the format. Where sound is a must, we recommend the MIDI format be played along side this format.
Here is a little movie I have been working on:
0000100000000000000011000000001111111100000000
0000000000000000111111110000000011010110101101
0111010101010101101011111001111001111010110110
It has a Christmas themed to it, maybe it will hit the box office this winter?
I don't see anything wrong with the contact act. It is a good thing because that means that the media will play 40% less Britney Spears and N*Sync and in theory they should play 60% better music but for some reason that doesn't happen.
A good portion of my favorite bands are Canadian anyway.
I have a PS/2 85 w/ the MCA bus running Slackware 7 also. It's not a bad machine, it seems pretty responsive compared to other 486's that I've installed Linux on.
MCA isn't all bad I guess, finding description disks is annoying, but most of them can be had on the net. Just not being able get all the hardware I want now is the downside.
You can't go wrong with a computer that support serial consoles though! (why oh why don't standard PC's do this????)
As I understand it, Maya ports exist for Linux already. Hopefully that is high-end enough for ya?;)
I think you're right that we won't be seeing any A/W's products open source. Lets see you could buy Maya unlimited for about $25,000 or you can download the source free off the net. I just can't see that happening! I would love to see it though!!!
Although, with the complexity of some of these 3D packages out there, an open source model might just be substainable through training, support and setting up rendering farms.
But of course if they are written properly (I'm not inplying that they aren't), you'd only have to give permission to write directly the disk and not need total Administration privaliges. IIRC there is a way to do just that in Windows 2000, but I don't know how you'd go about doing it.
It is true that there are some programs that wont run as regular or guest users under Windows 2000. These are mostly programs that were designed on Win9x and they didn't take into consideration the NT line. These programs usually try to write into thier own directory for instance but obviously the program directory should be read-only (to prevent viruses, etc.) These programs are also trublesome when you try to use them with multiple accounts. Since they don't store thier files in the users home directory, all the data is shared across all users, which is annoying. Just imagine all your Linux programs storing thier user settings in/usr/bin instead of ~/!
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Well since I don't run W2K on the server, I didn't read the EULA. Since I haven't read it, I haven't agreed to it!
This Code Red worm still used my resources however. The processing power it took to process the request, the bandwidth wasted on the request. Am I not entitled to a lawsuit against Microsoft? Here is the chance for all non-Windows web host owners to join together in one massive lawsuit against the Evil Empire
net send %COMPUTERNAME% Warning you have been infected with the code red worm, blah blah blah
Not be even more effective? Not only that, you won't have to write to their hard drive which the user may not like. And besides, who is going to miss a big pop-up message?? Where as a file may be missed.
I've lived in the country and city. I by far prefer the country. While visiting the city is great, having to live there is another matter.
One of my biggest problems with the city is that it is too cramped. My backyard is over 100 acres of open land, how many of you in the city can say that?? Country life is also a slower pace, everything in the city is rush, rush, rush, but it seems to be the oppoisite in the country.
Even though I live in the country, I still have a high-tech job. I still have my DSL internet and satellite TV, all the ammenities of city life. If I want to do something that is only avaliable in the city, well then I'll drive there. It's not like city people don't drive everywhere anyway, so not much is different there either.
To me, country life has it all, but I know it's not for everyone. Different storkes for different folks I guess.
Slashdot Mirror
Happy Birthday.gif.exe
Nawww, I'd rather to listen to my WMAs included with my CD purchase.
/dev/cdrom > /dev/audio
cat
Hmmmm... I think my CD is broken, it's all static!
"Hey, cool, a switched fabric for USB! Now my subwoofer won't share bandwidth with my digital camera!"
/. article title! So how about it? Are there any USB switches of this type in existance?
That's exactly what I was thinking when I read the
That's a shame about songfile.
I however have been using SongMeanings as of late. For you Winamp users, there is also a plugin that will display the lyrics for your currently playing song.
There are some songs that I would have thought would be on there that aren't, but you can always add your own if they are missing.
Here is an opportunity to sell a network appliance that you can just drop into your network and have it secure your IIS server.
Just put a simple installation of Linux/*BSD/etc and a copy of Apache+modules to do this. Put a web based administration utility on it for configuring IP addresses and what-not and let it do it's thing. You could also include an update system (something along the lines of Norton Antivirus LiveUpdate) that grabs updates so it can filter any new HTTP requests that show up that can harm an IIS server as well as any holes that may show up in the appliance itself.
PHB's seem to be fond of "black boxes" even if they do run Linux. But there is no way that they'd ever allow a regular old computer run Linux, it's not the Microsoft way! Oh, the irony, but anyway.
I think it is now time to find myself a nice embeded computer...
There is OpenLGX. It appears to be still in development, but I do believe some copies are floating around somewhere. The website has recently changed and all information about OpenLGX is gone. It looked pretty promosing before though, maybe even better than Flash itself. Hopefully more info about it surfaces soon, even better would be a product.
You've got that right. The nearest half-decent music store is an hour's drive away from me. I can download a whole album in say 10 minutes. I can then burn the CD in say 40 minutes (I have an old 2x burner) so that's just 50 minutes. The other way I'd spend 2 hours in travel time and ~30 minutes finding/buying CD. That's 2.5 hours! I think the choice is obvious.
Oh yeah, and during that 50 minutes I only have to spend say 5 minutes (max) to set the computer up to do all of that and I can do something else in the mean time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost certain there is such a thing as a 3 bit computer. 1, 0 and a third state. I can't find anything out there about it so maybe I just totally dreamt the whole thing? Hopefully someone out there knows more about these systems.
As to what the 3rd bit is for is beyond me?
How about an IP address, assigned at birth.. Thats where you can host your site. Of course you always have jealousy over the really cool IP numbers, but hey, No copyright problems.
Sounds good in theory, but if the doctors had it thier way, they'd lease you a DHCP address or even worse use PPPoE. Oh and you'd better not be listening for any conversations, you may only initiate them, or you will violate your TOS.
I agree, if all I/O devices had thier own address you could have a keyboard and monitor and control a machine half way around the world without you even having a computer locally! If monitors acted like x-clients for example, you could have your web browser up on screen, and at the same time have a video feed coming in and displayed on your TV all from the same computer. You could also run another application on a different monitor much like having dual screens now, but you wouldn't even need an extra video card and you could display to as many screens as you'd like! In the thin-client world you wouldn't even need a local machine either, all keyboards and screens would just connect to the network and the "mainframe" would do the rest (sounds alot like dumb terminals again, doesn't it?).
I think this would be a great new way of interfacing components if the security concerns could be worked out. Since the new business computing model seems to be heading back to dumb terminals maybe this is the ideal way to implement it? Bandwidth/latency issues aside you wouldn't even need to have the computers in the same building, just need a network connection.
With IPv6 on it's way (or so we hope) this could be an ideal way of computing. If security issues could be solved, are there any other pitfalls I'm missing? I think this would be a great system for interfacing componets!
You've got that right about PHP. Their language reference section of the site is superb. It makes it quite easy to program in PHP when you have the whole API with in-depth information at your finger tips. They also allow user comments about each function which can even more deeply explain what the function does, or how it can be extended.
I would definitly recommend you look at that for some ideas. But definitely, like others have already mentioned, include lots of example code, that's the best way to see how something works.
I guess the website wouldn't have been Slashdotted so quickly if only they hadn't used other people's 802.11b networks.
If you can get some sort of video stream into these frames then you can do just about anything with them. How about a real-time usage graph from your webserver (code red anyone?). You could get a couple of them and use them as side-view mirrors in race car games. What about a tiny X-terminal? If you are really talented, you could get a bunch of them and make one big makeshift LCD screen.
Then again, you could use them to display photos! They just need to be bigger and hang on the wall so you can use them to display paintings when you aren't using them, but can also be used for tv/computer/etc.
Assuming Prodigy (or insert your ISP here) doesn't block VPN connections, you could estabilish a private net back to the office, then all traffic would be routed (and encrypted I might add) through the VPN. The ISP then would have no control over, or even know what is sent over this private link.
VPN's are also great if you need access to computers behind your firewall.
And here is how it's done:
;)
The file format:
HEADER: 16 bits: (Integer) Height
16 bits: (Integer) Width
Defines height and width (in pixels) of the video
8 bits: Red
8 bits: Green
8 bits: Blue
Defines colour for bit 0
8 bits: Red
8 bits: Green
8 bits: Blue
Defines colour for bit 1
STREAM: 1 bit
Defines the colour used
Header is sent at the beginning of the file and the stream follows. Bandwidth must achive 30bps (for full motion video). Sound is not yet implemented into the format. Where sound is a must, we recommend the MIDI format be played along side this format.
Here is a little movie I have been working on:
0000100000000000000011000000001111111100000000
0000000000000000111111110000000011010110101101
0111010101010101101011111001111001111010110110
It has a Christmas themed to it, maybe it will hit the box office this winter?
Now give me money!
They have Linux running as the BIOS, this is likely what you are thinking of.
FDBML:
/>
/>
/>
/>
<doorbell>
<door location="front"
<ring>
<pitch>10</pitch>
<duration>5</duration>
<volume>22</volume>
</ring>
<release hounds="1"
<release killerbees="1"
<release houndswithkillerbeesinthiermouth="1"
</doorbell>
A good portion of my favorite bands are Canadian anyway.
The media rarely, if ever, play the music I like anyway though so it's not going to matter if Canadian content is 1% or 100%!
I have a PS/2 85 w/ the MCA bus running Slackware 7 also. It's not a bad machine, it seems pretty responsive compared to other 486's that I've installed Linux on.
MCA isn't all bad I guess, finding description disks is annoying, but most of them can be had on the net. Just not being able get all the hardware I want now is the downside.
You can't go wrong with a computer that support serial consoles though! (why oh why don't standard PC's do this????)
As I understand it, Maya ports exist for Linux already. Hopefully that is high-end enough for ya? ;)
I think you're right that we won't be seeing any A/W's products open source. Lets see you could buy Maya unlimited for about $25,000 or you can download the source free off the net. I just can't see that happening! I would love to see it though!!!
Although, with the complexity of some of these 3D packages out there, an open source model might just be substainable through training, support and setting up rendering farms.
But of course if they are written properly (I'm not inplying that they aren't), you'd only have to give permission to write directly the disk and not need total Administration privaliges. IIRC there is a way to do just that in Windows 2000, but I don't know how you'd go about doing it.
/usr/bin instead of ~/!
It is true that there are some programs that wont run as regular or guest users under Windows 2000. These are mostly programs that were designed on Win9x and they didn't take into consideration the NT line. These programs usually try to write into thier own directory for instance but obviously the program directory should be read-only (to prevent viruses, etc.) These programs are also trublesome when you try to use them with multiple accounts. Since they don't store thier files in the users home directory, all the data is shared across all users, which is annoying. Just imagine all your Linux programs storing thier user settings in
Well since I don't run W2K on the server, I didn't read the EULA. Since I haven't read it, I haven't agreed to it!
This Code Red worm still used my resources however. The processing power it took to process the request, the bandwidth wasted on the request. Am I not entitled to a lawsuit against Microsoft? Here is the chance for all non-Windows web host owners to join together in one massive lawsuit against the Evil Empire
would a
net send %COMPUTERNAME% Warning you have been infected with the code red worm, blah blah blah
Not be even more effective? Not only that, you won't have to write to their hard drive which the user may not like. And besides, who is going to miss a big pop-up message?? Where as a file may be missed.
You think that's bad, wait until you get infected by the "Rotten" PDF virus twice!
I've lived in the country and city. I by far prefer the country. While visiting the city is great, having to live there is another matter.
One of my biggest problems with the city is that it is too cramped. My backyard is over 100 acres of open land, how many of you in the city can say that?? Country life is also a slower pace, everything in the city is rush, rush, rush, but it seems to be the oppoisite in the country.
Even though I live in the country, I still have a high-tech job. I still have my DSL internet and satellite TV, all the ammenities of city life. If I want to do something that is only avaliable in the city, well then I'll drive there. It's not like city people don't drive everywhere anyway, so not much is different there either.
To me, country life has it all, but I know it's not for everyone. Different storkes for different folks I guess.