I can reveal the secret high-tech method for accessing newzbin2 and by-passing the recent block on the site on BT residential lines.
Its top secret and highly technical, so don't tell anyone...
Instead of typing http://newzbin.com/ you type https://newzbin.com/
Yes, that is typing an extra s in the right place.
This sounds a lot like We7, only with faff about DRM.
We7 do advertising supported downloads of MP3s, so you can put them on whatever device you want, including your iPod. A month after you downloaded the ad version, you can go back and re-download without adverts. They've got quite a lot of major labels on board, so there's a fairly decent choice. With the option of We7, why would you bother with something similar that still has DRM crap on it?
One of the things holding back the deployment of IPv6 is the fact that IPv6 PI still isn't sorted. There has been some movement of late, but it's still not sorted. (PI = provider indepentent address space, PA = provider allocated)
Without PI, you can't do multihoming, unless you're a Ripe member (so you're multihoming on PA space). Lots of companies will only use IPv4 PI address blocks (so they're not tied to one provider), so won't try IPv6 until they can get a PI block. At work, we'd love to do IPv6 in production, but because we can't get an IPv6 PI block, we can't.
Until all the ripe regions roll out IPv6 PI, lots of companies that want to do production IPv6 just won't. It needs fixing
For details about how to get freeware apps signed (for nothing) have a look here.
Hmm, I couldn't find that when I was looking just a few weeks ago. They also didn't tell me anything about it when I emailed to ask them what's up with opensource and signing. Muppets!
I think you must be on a friendly network. I believe quite a few networks won't let you turn off that restriction, and more can be expected to do so in the future.
Currently, there's loads of open source programs available for the symbian phones, especially series 60. With your choice of C++, Python or Java, it's easy to get started with writing code. Lots of apps drives consumer demand.
More recently, Nokia stopped supporting Linux for developing applications (previously there was decent support for Java, and help with C++). This makes it much much harder to develop S60 apps on Linux, so a load of potential developers won't bother.
The big issue now is symbian signed. With S60 version 3 onward, they've seriously locked down the platform. If your code isn't signed, it won't run on most devices, and even where it will, it won't be allowed to do interesting things (write to filesystem, talk to network etc). If you want to get your code signed, you have to have an expensive verisign certificate, and pay a bunch of cash to have your app reviewed.
In one fell swoop, almost all open source programs have stopped working on S60 version 3, and won't work again. All the developers are really pissed, and no-one's willing to talk about it from symbian (try emailing them about it, and they just mutter about python). All of a sudden, your new S60 phone is half useless, as you can't get any decent apps for it.
Get a series 60 phone. It's powered by Symbian, and you get a full C++ development kit (and cross compilers etc), as well as a fairly full featured Python library. You can hook into all sorts of places with your own code.
There are a few programs out there for series 60 that block/filter calls, and it's not that hard to write your own if you don't fancy any of them.
The article is advocating more popular tunes being more expensive, but surely that's the wrong way?
The more popular the tune, the more money is being made, so the price can fall. The less popular the music, the lower the demand but with fixed overheads, so the price should rise.
The fixed costs are very similar between selling 1 copy and selling 1 million (the difference being the billing and bandwidth). With the bulk of the costs being fixed, the more you sell, the cheaper it should get, not the other way around!
The nitrogen doped ones do seem to be metalic. Conductivity of nanotubes (doped and un-doped) is quite a big area, there are half a dozen research groups around the world working on it.
I believe my wife is hoping to have a measurement for the restistance of a single nitrogen doped nanotube before she finished her PhD. Well, that's the plan at this stage:)
I've bought 3 desktop PCs from dell in the last year that came without an OS, and with a FreeDOS cd in the box. So, how does this announcement qualify as news?
I go shopping at lunchtime. My office is 2 miles from a village with a number of little shops. Once or twice a week, I head to the village to collect the office sandwich order. While I'm there, I pop into the butchers (also does veg), the deli, and maybe the co-op.
So, I get to shop at local shops. Because I'm there at lunchtime, rather than the going-home-from-work crowd, it's much more pleasant. The small shops are often cheaper, have a nicer range of stuff, and can suggest things. You should try it!
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While I'm at it, am I the only one who wishes that directory enquiries could beam a number to your phone in a specific format, so that you could just call by viewing the text message and using a "convert to number" type option
On my phone (Nokia 6600), I view the SMS, pick Options -> Find -> Phone Number, and it shows me a list of all the things that look like phone numbers it found in the SMS. I pick the one I want, and can either call the number, SMS to the number, or add it to my contacts list.
I'm well aware that Microsoft make smartphone software. I have a lot of friends with smart phones (most of whom are windows users), but not one of them have a windows smartphone. The microsoft smartphones just don't have the market share.
Also, everyone I knew who had a PDA has ditched them in favour of a smartphone. It's true that the market is merging, but only in one direction - phones are eating the market of PDAs. Just look at the sales figures - this year's smartphone sales are set to be higher than all the PDA sales ever!
It seems to me that the robotics market is a growing one - more and more robots are going to be produced in the future. Linux has this growing market.
Windows has the shrinking market. Handhelds are on the way out, being pushed aside by smarter phones (running Linux or Symbian). Why have a phone and a handheld, when the phone will do both? So, the handheld market is shrinking, and that's the one Windows has.
This first version of the book was written by Simon Cozens.
When it came to writing the second edition, Simon didn't get the job owing to his reluctance to carry it forward to future revisions, due to work restraints. So, someone else was hired, but Simon was promised 50% royalties, since it was going to be based largely on his work.
Based on Simons latest blog post, the publishers have conveniently forgotten this agreement. He's now not goint to get any royalties for the book, despite having written much of the material!
So, rather than buying the new edition (and supporting a publisher who rips off their authors), you should go read the Creative Commons licensed version of the first edition that Simon has posted here.
If you live in a flat with no TV license, you will receive a series of ominous letters warning you that agents of the government could drive down your block at any moment, hunting for contraband picture tubes
Or you could just ignore the letters, like everyone does, and they eventually give up. Since they're not allowed inside your house without a warrant, if you don't have a TV you're fine. There's a small risk they might turn up at your house (though I've lived in a number of places without TV licenses or TVs, and never seen them), but again with no TV you're fine.
Stores cannot so much as sell you a VCR without reporting your name and address to the Powers That Be.
I think you missed one important bit there - it's not your name they need, but a name. They are obliged to collect a name and address when they sell equipment capable of picking up TV signals. However, they're under no obligation to check the data they collect. Just give them any old crap, the minimum wage staff in the TV shop don't care. They don't (as yet) have to check what you give them.
Having seen the TV situation in other countries, I think we really do have one of the best models. A few slight niggles (like the nasty but ignorable) letters, but really a small price to pay for decent and powerful TV
They do. You can license them. Trouble is, once you have, you're bound by quite a number of restrictions
One of the POI developers (Jakarta Word/Excel project) recently had to stop, as he'd changed employers to someone who'd licensed the specs:
leaving email
What would be nice is getting those docs without all the heavy licensing
You want duplicity. It'll run over SSH, and uses librsync. You get compressed backups, and compressed incremental changes. You can easily go back to the version of the file from a few days previously, or the latest version.
It requires Python, librsync, and either a ssh or ftp server. You can make it work with cygwin, or with ActivePython + some other ssh server.
I mean, who in their time at Oxford didn't load up their favourite ethernet sniffer, and take a look at the traffic flowing past (usually, the networks are made up of hubs connected to swtiches, owing to cost, so you can see traffic for 10-20 other computers). The difference with myself was I then showed this to the college IT officer, rather than the student papers, so actually got something fixed.
The big problem is lack of funds and lack of time. College IT people (the sniffing in question took place in a college, on the college network, not the main uni network) tend to have themselves and an assistant to look after a few hundred student machines, a few tens of multi user workstations, and then all the machines of the staff (50 odd, and must take priority). Oh, and they don't have enough budget. Thats why the problems remain
For anyone who knows Oxford, one of my friends wrote a very good spoof of this - http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~sheldon/oxstu.html (if you don't know Oxford, you might stuggle to get all the points...)
You can get bluetooth and IR keyboards for the Series 60 phones, so the keypad's not quite such an issue
Screen can be a bit small at times, but it isn't too much worse than a PDA. You've got a trade off between getting more stuff on the screen, and getting the damned thing into your pocket!
I have three "computers". One is a 1ghz laptop, the second is a desktop 486 (which works just fine for email, IRC etc)
I also have a Nokia 6600, which is a series 60 (symbian) phone. It has a 100mhz arm processor powering it, and takes MMC cards for extra storage. It too can do email (IMAP or POP), irc, ssh, and also browse the web (using Opera). Since you can program for it with C++ or Java, there's not a lot you can't then get it to do
For a lot of people, it almost does everything they want of a computer (writing documents on it is a bit icky, even with a bluetooth keyboard. Won't be long until someone's done a good word processor for it. It already supports printing via BlueTooth).
So, I'd say it's pretty likely that many people (non tech types) will quickly get smart phones like (or just beyond) mine, and just use those
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As highlighted by RevK from AAISP in a recent blog post on the stupidity of the blocking
This sounds a lot like We7, only with faff about DRM.
We7 do advertising supported downloads of MP3s, so you can put them on whatever device you want, including your iPod. A month after you downloaded the ad version, you can go back and re-download without adverts. They've got quite a lot of major labels on board, so there's a fairly decent choice. With the option of We7, why would you bother with something similar that still has DRM crap on it?
One of the things holding back the deployment of IPv6 is the fact that IPv6 PI still isn't sorted. There has been some movement of late, but it's still not sorted. (PI = provider indepentent address space, PA = provider allocated)
Without PI, you can't do multihoming, unless you're a Ripe member (so you're multihoming on PA space). Lots of companies will only use IPv4 PI address blocks (so they're not tied to one provider), so won't try IPv6 until they can get a PI block. At work, we'd love to do IPv6 in production, but because we can't get an IPv6 PI block, we can't.
Until all the ripe regions roll out IPv6 PI, lots of companies that want to do production IPv6 just won't. It needs fixing
Yes, you can recycle your cds. There's a list of places that offer cd recycling on recyclenow - http://www.recyclenow.com/what_more_can_i_do/can_i t_be_recycled/compact_discs.html
You might want to look into HP's TestDrive program. You get access to wide range of OS's, on x86, Itanium and PA-RISC. Sign up, log in, and play.
IIRC, it's not quite such a range of hardware as SF provided, but it is a wider range of OS's on the hardware they do provide.
I think you must be on a friendly network. I believe quite a few networks won't let you turn off that restriction, and more can be expected to do so in the future.
Currently, there's loads of open source programs available for the symbian phones, especially series 60. With your choice of C++, Python or Java, it's easy to get started with writing code. Lots of apps drives consumer demand.
More recently, Nokia stopped supporting Linux for developing applications (previously there was decent support for Java, and help with C++). This makes it much much harder to develop S60 apps on Linux, so a load of potential developers won't bother.
The big issue now is symbian signed. With S60 version 3 onward, they've seriously locked down the platform. If your code isn't signed, it won't run on most devices, and even where it will, it won't be allowed to do interesting things (write to filesystem, talk to network etc). If you want to get your code signed, you have to have an expensive verisign certificate, and pay a bunch of cash to have your app reviewed.
In one fell swoop, almost all open source programs have stopped working on S60 version 3, and won't work again. All the developers are really pissed, and no-one's willing to talk about it from symbian (try emailing them about it, and they just mutter about python). All of a sudden, your new S60 phone is half useless, as you can't get any decent apps for it.
Not the brightest move ever.....
Get a series 60 phone. It's powered by Symbian, and you get a full C++ development kit (and cross compilers etc), as well as a fairly full featured Python library. You can hook into all sorts of places with your own code.
There are a few programs out there for series 60 that block/filter calls, and it's not that hard to write your own if you don't fancy any of them.
The article is advocating more popular tunes being more expensive, but surely that's the wrong way?
The more popular the tune, the more money is being made, so the price can fall. The less popular the music, the lower the demand but with fixed overheads, so the price should rise.
The fixed costs are very similar between selling 1 copy and selling 1 million (the difference being the billing and bandwidth). With the bulk of the costs being fixed, the more you sell, the cheaper it should get, not the other way around!
The nitrogen doped ones do seem to be metalic. Conductivity of nanotubes (doped and un-doped) is quite a big area, there are half a dozen research groups around the world working on it.
I believe my wife is hoping to have a measurement for the restistance of a single nitrogen doped nanotube before she finished her PhD. Well, that's the plan at this stage :)
I've bought 3 desktop PCs from dell in the last year that came without an OS, and with a FreeDOS cd in the box. So, how does this announcement qualify as news?
I go shopping at lunchtime. My office is 2 miles from a village with a number of little shops. Once or twice a week, I head to the village to collect the office sandwich order. While I'm there, I pop into the butchers (also does veg), the deli, and maybe the co-op.
So, I get to shop at local shops. Because I'm there at lunchtime, rather than the going-home-from-work crowd, it's much more pleasant. The small shops are often cheaper, have a nicer range of stuff, and can suggest things. You should try it!
While I'm at it, am I the only one who wishes that directory enquiries could beam a number to your phone in a specific format, so that you could just call by viewing the text message and using a "convert to number" type option
On my phone (Nokia 6600), I view the SMS, pick Options -> Find -> Phone Number, and it shows me a list of all the things that look like phone numbers it found in the SMS. I pick the one I want, and can either call the number, SMS to the number, or add it to my contacts list.
Perhaps what you need is a fancier phone....
I consider smart phones to be extentions of phones, so it's one direction. A smartphone is still a phone, it just also does a hell of a lot more...
I'm well aware that Microsoft make smartphone software. I have a lot of friends with smart phones (most of whom are windows users), but not one of them have a windows smartphone. The microsoft smartphones just don't have the market share.
Also, everyone I knew who had a PDA has ditched them in favour of a smartphone. It's true that the market is merging, but only in one direction - phones are eating the market of PDAs. Just look at the sales figures - this year's smartphone sales are set to be higher than all the PDA sales ever!
It seems to me that the robotics market is a growing one - more and more robots are going to be produced in the future. Linux has this growing market.
Windows has the shrinking market. Handhelds are on the way out, being pushed aside by smarter phones (running Linux or Symbian). Why have a phone and a handheld, when the phone will do both? So, the handheld market is shrinking, and that's the one Windows has.
Linux 1, Microsoft 0
This first version of the book was written by Simon Cozens.
When it came to writing the second edition, Simon didn't get the job owing to his reluctance to carry it forward to future revisions, due to work restraints. So, someone else was hired, but Simon was promised 50% royalties, since it was going to be based largely on his work.
Based on Simons latest blog post, the publishers have conveniently forgotten this agreement. He's now not goint to get any royalties for the book, despite having written much of the material!
So, rather than buying the new edition (and supporting a publisher who rips off their authors), you should go read the Creative Commons licensed version of the first edition that Simon has posted here.
If you live in a flat with no TV license, you will receive a series of ominous letters warning you that agents of the government could drive down your block at any moment, hunting for contraband picture tubes
Or you could just ignore the letters, like everyone does, and they eventually give up. Since they're not allowed inside your house without a warrant, if you don't have a TV you're fine. There's a small risk they might turn up at your house (though I've lived in a number of places without TV licenses or TVs, and never seen them), but again with no TV you're fine.
Stores cannot so much as sell you a VCR without reporting your name and address to the Powers That Be.
I think you missed one important bit there - it's not your name they need, but a name. They are obliged to collect a name and address when they sell equipment capable of picking up TV signals. However, they're under no obligation to check the data they collect. Just give them any old crap, the minimum wage staff in the TV shop don't care. They don't (as yet) have to check what you give them.
Having seen the TV situation in other countries, I think we really do have one of the best models. A few slight niggles (like the nasty but ignorable) letters, but really a small price to pay for decent and powerful TV
They do. You can license them. Trouble is, once you have, you're bound by quite a number of restrictions One of the POI developers (Jakarta Word/Excel project) recently had to stop, as he'd changed employers to someone who'd licensed the specs: leaving email What would be nice is getting those docs without all the heavy licensing
How about BrowserCam?
You want duplicity. It'll run over SSH, and uses librsync. You get compressed backups, and compressed incremental changes. You can easily go back to the version of the file from a few days previously, or the latest version. It requires Python, librsync, and either a ssh or ftp server. You can make it work with cygwin, or with ActivePython + some other ssh server.
I mean, who in their time at Oxford didn't load up their favourite ethernet sniffer, and take a look at the traffic flowing past (usually, the networks are made up of hubs connected to swtiches, owing to cost, so you can see traffic for 10-20 other computers). The difference with myself was I then showed this to the college IT officer, rather than the student papers, so actually got something fixed.
The big problem is lack of funds and lack of time. College IT people (the sniffing in question took place in a college, on the college network, not the main uni network) tend to have themselves and an assistant to look after a few hundred student machines, a few tens of multi user workstations, and then all the machines of the staff (50 odd, and must take priority). Oh, and they don't have enough budget. Thats why the problems remain
For anyone who knows Oxford, one of my friends wrote a very good spoof of this - http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~sheldon/oxstu.html (if you don't know Oxford, you might stuggle to get all the points...)
You can get bluetooth and IR keyboards for the Series 60 phones, so the keypad's not quite such an issue
Screen can be a bit small at times, but it isn't too much worse than a PDA. You've got a trade off between getting more stuff on the screen, and getting the damned thing into your pocket!
I have three "computers". One is a 1ghz laptop, the second is a desktop 486 (which works just fine for email, IRC etc) I also have a Nokia 6600, which is a series 60 (symbian) phone. It has a 100mhz arm processor powering it, and takes MMC cards for extra storage. It too can do email (IMAP or POP), irc, ssh, and also browse the web (using Opera). Since you can program for it with C++ or Java, there's not a lot you can't then get it to do For a lot of people, it almost does everything they want of a computer (writing documents on it is a bit icky, even with a bluetooth keyboard. Won't be long until someone's done a good word processor for it. It already supports printing via BlueTooth). So, I'd say it's pretty likely that many people (non tech types) will quickly get smart phones like (or just beyond) mine, and just use those