Triton Submarines makes 2-man and 3-man subs designed for 1000 or 3300 foot depths. "The 3300/3 played a major role in the expedition to capture the first ever footage of the Giant Squid" which a few of you probably saw on the Discovery Channel. They are one of a handful of companies designing models capable of visiting the Challenger Deep (repeating the feats of the Trieste in 1960 and James Cameron in 2012).
I wrote an Android app that allows me to tell a UPnP MediaRenderer (like a WD TV Live +, although that particular unit has many shortcomings) to play a movie file that lives on my phone. This sort of functionality is already available in a couple of off-the-shelf androids and will probably be a standard feature by the end of 2011.
I'm told the big advantage of the Apple version of UPnP is authentication, which is not mentioned in the UPnP specs I have read.
For me, I never got a Tivo because of the cost. You need to purchase the equipment and then pay a monthly fee.
I have a MythTV, and ever since that debacle with commercial builders flouting the terms of service at Zap2it Labs I have been paying Schedules Direct for my channel guide.
The lesson from Schedules Direct is that plenty of people who use Open Source are willing to pay for a service that has value.
How long before the net wakes up and admits that DNS is a very poor directory service and prods the various trademark registries into providing on-line lookups to applications (like mozilla, or IE) ?
A tivo can be rendered entirely useless
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If you do not subscribe to the service, a system reset will place your Tivo in a state where any attempt to watch TV will cause the Tivo to crash and reboot. All you can do is surf the menus.
You have to subscribe to the service and download the channel info (3 hour process) before your Tivo can watch TV.
Anyone remember Sun Microsystem's NEWS ? (Network Extensible Window System; I found a very old page referencing it; a web search might turn up more). It was an early contemporary to X windows which was based on Display Postscript. You could even upload code to the NEWS server (although god knows what sort of security risks that posed, nobody was worried back then).
Sounds like IBM and friends need to either fund conversion of open-source apps to X11-DPS, or form a new consortium to develop a new Open Source resolution- independent (or at least less-dependent) protocol and libraries.
When presenting search results, they should sort by salary. It's unlikely that the keyword correlation is going to be a good metric so you'll be sifting through tons of crap anyway. Might as well put the best paying jobs at the top so the first few you find that really match are the highest paying.
why not a new compression scheme in TIFF?
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Why don't they add a new compression type to the TIFF format?
I guess because then they couldn't do a truncated download for low-res.
Oh well. If they release a freely usable source library, I hope the format flourishes. Otherwise, it can go to hell with my bootprint on its ass.
After consistently crashing my 2.2.4 machine by using CDDA2WAV to read audio from an ATAPI CD (/dev/hdc) into an 11G FAT32 (/dev/hda5), I emailed the kernel list.
Tom Holroyd informed me that there were bugs in the FAT32 code that could be tickled by high load. One person countered that he had no problems with FAT32 under load.
In the mean time, I can still run cdda2wav on a different machine with a slower SCSI drive and write to the troublesome FAT32 partition over NFS.
I'd be happier if the spammers were legally required to remove you from their lists and propagate the removal up to the original source and send you a report of each removal and the original source.
Then those "one-time" spammers would be forced to have you removed from the list of whoever they bought their list from.
The next step is to penalize the harvesting of email from "public materials" such as list email, newsgroup postings, and web pages.
The last step is to require email collectors to use language equivalent to a contract when they collect the email address from the user. This way the user will know what the other party intends to do with their email address (or other personal information). This might be good for other industries that collect personal information (catalog sales, cable companies, phone companies, etc)
I definitely think there should be the ability to send email without revealing your identity, but it should be distinguishable from people who have a valid identity, and easily blockable.
I was evaluating Oracle for use on our web server. I did get the DBD for Oracle to work without much problem.
My main gripe with Oracle is that it's too flexible (and therefore too complicated). It also consumes more disk space than a 3 day news spool for alt.binaries. When I get a little more hair on my chest and have an oversized application, I'll reconsider Oracle, but until then I'm sticking with PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL has problems, but I've already worked around them.
Now to play with Sybase...
Lego requires Javascript and shockwave. suck.
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I hate javascript. I hate plugins, especially if they aren't available for Linux.
This kind of thing makes me want to buy a pair of boots and go on an ass-kicking road trip.
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Triton Submarines makes 2-man and 3-man subs designed for 1000 or 3300 foot depths. "The 3300/3 played a major role in the expedition to capture the first ever footage of the Giant Squid" which a few of you probably saw on the Discovery Channel. They are one of a handful of companies designing models capable of visiting the Challenger Deep (repeating the feats of the Trieste in 1960 and James Cameron in 2012).
I wrote an Android app that allows me to tell a UPnP MediaRenderer (like a WD TV Live +, although that particular unit has many shortcomings) to play a movie file that lives on my phone. This sort of functionality is already available in a couple of off-the-shelf androids and will probably be a standard feature by the end of 2011.
I'm told the big advantage of the Apple version of UPnP is authentication, which is not mentioned in the UPnP specs I have read.
For me, I never got a Tivo because of the cost. You need to purchase the equipment and then pay a monthly fee.
I have a MythTV, and ever since that debacle with commercial builders flouting the terms of service at Zap2it Labs I have been paying Schedules Direct for my channel guide.
The lesson from Schedules Direct is that plenty of people who use Open Source are willing to pay for a service that has value.
netcat isn't the only networking tool capable of routing tars across the network.
There is also ucspi-tcp by Dan Bernstein
http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html
and Netpipes, by me
http://web.purplefrog.com/~thoth/netpipes/
How long before the net wakes up and admits that DNS is a very poor directory service and prods the various trademark registries into providing on-line lookups to applications (like mozilla, or IE) ?
If you do not subscribe to the service, a system reset will place your Tivo in a state where any attempt to watch TV will cause the Tivo to crash and reboot. All you can do is surf the menus.
You have to subscribe to the service and download the channel info (3 hour process) before your Tivo can watch TV.
Sounds like IBM and friends need to either fund conversion of open-source apps to X11-DPS, or form a new consortium to develop a new Open Source resolution- independent (or at least less-dependent) protocol and libraries.
When presenting search results, they should sort by salary. It's unlikely that the keyword correlation is going to be a good metric so you'll be sifting through tons of crap anyway. Might as well put the best paying jobs at the top so the first few you find that really match are the highest paying.
Why don't they add a new compression type to the TIFF format?
I guess because then they couldn't do a truncated download for low-res.
Oh well. If they release a freely usable source library, I hope the format flourishes. Otherwise, it can go to hell with my bootprint on its ass.
Using the BrainPower resume submission form seems to require javascript. I couldn't get past the "Go" button on a secured browser.
Once again, my hate tank is topped off by half-assed webmasters.
Tom Holroyd informed me that there were bugs in the FAT32 code that could be tickled by high load. One person countered that he had no problems with FAT32 under load.
In the mean time, I can still run cdda2wav on a different machine with a slower SCSI drive and write to the troublesome FAT32 partition over NFS.
Tomorrow they'll use it to hunt down a "criminal" who disagrees with the Chinese government.
I'd be happier if the spammers were legally required to remove you from their lists and propagate the removal up to the original source and send you a report of each removal and the original source.
Then those "one-time" spammers would be forced to have you removed from the list of whoever they bought their list from.
The next step is to penalize the harvesting of email from "public materials" such as list email, newsgroup postings, and web pages.
The last step is to require email collectors to use language equivalent to a contract when they collect the email address from the user. This way the user will know what the other party intends to do with their email address (or other personal information). This might be good for other industries that collect personal information (catalog sales, cable companies, phone companies, etc)
I definitely think there should be the ability to send email without revealing your identity, but it should be distinguishable from people who have a valid identity, and easily blockable.
I was evaluating Oracle for use on our web server. I did get the DBD for Oracle to work without much problem.
My main gripe with Oracle is that it's too flexible (and therefore too complicated). It also consumes more disk space than a 3 day news spool for alt.binaries. When I get a little more hair on my chest and have an oversized application, I'll reconsider Oracle, but until then I'm sticking with PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL has problems, but I've already worked around them.
Now to play with Sybase...
I hate javascript. I hate plugins, especially if they aren't available for Linux.
This kind of thing makes me want to buy a pair of boots and go on an ass-kicking road trip.