In my apartment complext, my WAP is locked down through IP filters. Yes, I know that's neither secure nor locked down. But it's good enough for my needs. (And actually, I think that proving you're an incompetent sysadmin may be a good thing in these Ashcroftian, DRM'd days.)
My SSID is my phone number.
Intriguingly, in the three years I've been here, the SSID's went from mine alone, to about three or four others, some secured, some not. And my phone has never rung with someone looking for a temporary connection.
It's never been called.
I'm a bit surprised to read all these 5 posts where all these friendly geeks have all these obnoxious and relatively useless WAP policies.
You're way wrong, no way that HP can have taken so many disastrous steps.
They are way improved over just five years ago. What used to be a company dominated by silly, market-ignorant, idealistic engineers and the HP way has now become the market driven, best practices, outsourcing MBA laden HP we know and the markets love
Smart wheels use sonar, laser range finding and millimeter wave radar to identify mufflers and other debris. Each one consists of a hub with many tiny spokes. Each spoke telescopes into five sections. On the end is a squat foot, rubber tread on the bottom, swiveling on a ball joint. As the wheel rolls, the feet plant themselves one at a time, almost glomming into one continuous tire. If you surf over a bump, the spokes contract to roll over it. If you surf over a pothole, the rubber prongs probe its asphalt depths.
From Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. Published by Bantam in 1992
I have been thinking about getting this FM Transmitter from the C Crane Company. Yes, everyone's favorite radio manufacturer and sponsor of Art Bell and Drug Limbug.
C Crane makes one whose best feature is that you can set the retransmission frequency. I've bought the cheap ones to find that the four frequencies they choose are often already used in the cities I am in.
It's currently, uh, $69.95 but comes with free shipping.
FM Transmitter features:
* Full stereo on any FM frequency of your choice.
* Exceptionally clean and stable digital tuning for drift-free accurate transfer.
* Selectable Power-Off Timer.
* Approximate line-of-sight range of 70 ft. Walls and metal objects will reduce this range.
* Runs on included AC Adapter or (2) optional "AA" batteries.
* Portable, fits in the palm of your hand.
* Weighs just 5.8 ozs.
* Size: 3.1" W x 3.5" H x 1.1"/End C Crane Plug.
I spent several hours today trying to figure out how I could take NPR's All Music Considered programs which are in Real Media and convert them to MP3 to download to my MP3 player.
I wasn't terribly successful. Nothing said it could do streaming media and restream it. Several products claim to be able to take streams and record them, and then convert them for you to play back later.
I didn't find anything GPL'd.
Non GPL'd products can apparently be found at:
totalrecorder.com replay-music.com wmrecorder. com (look for rm recorder)
What I thought was most interesting was the audience reaction shots showing that the vast majority of them were in complete agreement with Stewart.
Was this a Crossfire audience or a Daily Show Audience? It seemed to be an audience in complete agreement that Crossfire is not a news show but a theatre act akin to the Roman Coliseum: watch some poor schmuck disembowled, and yesterday it was Tucker Carlson.
Programs that take all day to install won't be installed. Successful applications will have one installer and a usable, understandable install script. Products that install hundreds of programs that have no perceived value will fail, as they should.
a "glider" is something else - a high-speed device with significant aerodynamic lift - initially powered by atmospheric thermal energy in the form of updrafts storing energy by raising a NON-bouyant craft against gravity, then trading this stored energy for momentum as necessary by gliding downward. Raising a neutrally-bouyant object stores no energy.)
Bzzt. Wrong.
Potential Energy = Mass * g * Height
How an object gets to 10,000 feet is irrelevant. Whether an object is neutrally bouyant, negatively buoyant, or positively buoyant is irrelevant.
Paper for the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, 2004
February 12, 2004
San Diego, CA
Cory Doctorow
doctorow@craphound.com
--
Forematter:
This talk was initially given at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference [ http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004 ], along with a set of slides that, for copyright reasons (ironic!) can't be released alongside of this file. However, you will find, interspersed in this text, notations describing the places where new slides should be loaded, in [square-brackets].
This text is dedicated to the public domain, using a Creative Commons public domain dedication:
> Copyright-Only Dedication (based on United States law) > > The person or persons who have associated their work with this > document (the "Dedicator") hereby dedicate the entire copyright > in the work of authorship identified below (the "Work") to the > public domain. > > Dedicator makes this dedication for the benefit of the public at > large and to the detriment of Dedicator's heirs and successors. > Dedicator intends this dedication to be an overt act of > relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights > under copyright law, whether vested or contingent, in the Work. > Dedicator understands that such relinquishment of all rights > includes the relinquishment of all rights to enforce (by lawsuit > or otherwise) those copyrights in the Work. > > Dedicator recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the > Work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, > modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any > purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including > by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived.
--
For starters, let me try to summarize the lessons and intuitions I've had about ebooks from my release of two novels and most of a short story collection online under a Creative Commons license. A parodist who published a list of alternate titles for the presentations at this event called this talk, "eBooks Suck Right Now," [eBooks suck right now] and as funny as that is, I don't think it's true.
No, if I had to come up with another title for this talk, I'd call it: "Ebooks: You're Soaking in Them." [Ebooks: You're Soaking in Them] That's because I think that the shape of ebooks to come is almost visible in the way that people interact with text today, and that the job of authors who want to become rich and famous is to come to a better understanding of that shape.
I haven't come to a perfect understanding. I don't know what the future of the book looks like. But I have ideas, and I'll share them with you:
1. Ebooks aren't marketing. [Ebooks aren't marketing] OK, so ebooks *are* marketing: that is to say that giving away ebooks sells more books. Baen Books, who do a lot of series publishing, have found that giving away electronic editions of the previous installments in their series to coincide with the release of a new volume sells the hell out of the new book -- and the backlist. And the number of people who wrote to me to tell me about how much they dug the ebook and so bought the paper-book far exceeds the number of people who wrote to me and said, "Ha, ha, you hippie, I read your book for free and now I'm not gonna buy it." But ebooks *shouldn't* be just about marketing: ebooks are a goal unto themselves. In the final analysis, more people will read more words off more screens and fewer words off fewer pages and when those two lines cross, ebooks are gonna have to be the way that writers earn their keep, not the way that they promote the dead-tree editions.
2. Ebooks complement paper books. [Ebooks complement paper books]. Having an ebook is good. Having a paper book is good. Having both is even better. One reader wrote to me and said that he read half my first
It's certainly the case that to distribute the OS you need to buy it.
If you are joe random programmer that wishes EXPERIENCE developing VxWorks applications, there are no downloads I can see on the WindRiver site to download the x86 Intel version for learning.
So if I can pick up this modem for $100, get to a VxWorks shell with the new firmware, then potentially I have access to an experimental VxWorks development platform (one with at least two ethernet ports to boot!) that I don't think I can obtain otherwise from WindRiver or elsewhere.
Please respect copyright by not posting the full text of articles./. readers can register or not read the Times. It should be up to the Times to decide./. readers that have chosen not to register have chosen not to read.
If you support GPL, then you need to support the copyright it is based on.
"In order to prove that free markets cannot produce reliable energy, we actually need a free market to study."
Are you saying we have no free markets, or just no free markets in energy?
If the former, than that sounds suspiciously similar to the arguments of various communists and socialists that the USSR and China never really were true communism....
If the latter, can you have a truly free market in energy if your environmental, lifestyle, and safety reasons you can't let companies build new dams, generators, transmission lines, power poles any damn place they feel like it?
Or, rather, in your cry for a free market, is there any market realizable in today's society that would fit your definition?
Slashdot Mirror
Next time I'll add a smiley, just for you.
You're missing the point. You were running xtraceroute on a computer. McAfee got this to work on a firewall !!
In my apartment complext, my WAP is locked down through IP filters. Yes, I know that's neither secure nor locked down. But it's good enough for my needs. (And actually, I think that proving you're an incompetent sysadmin may be a good thing in these Ashcroftian, DRM'd days.)
My SSID is my phone number.
Intriguingly, in the three years I've been here, the SSID's went from mine alone, to about three or four others, some secured, some not. And my phone has never rung with someone looking for a temporary connection.
It's never been called.
I'm a bit surprised to read all these 5 posts where all these friendly geeks have all these obnoxious and relatively useless WAP policies.
You're way wrong, no way that HP can have taken so many disastrous steps.
They are way improved over just five years ago. What used to be a company dominated by silly, market-ignorant, idealistic engineers and the HP way has now become the market driven, best practices, outsourcing MBA laden HP we know and the markets love
Smart wheels use sonar, laser range finding and millimeter wave radar to identify mufflers and other debris. Each one consists of a hub with many tiny spokes. Each spoke telescopes into five sections. On the end is a squat foot, rubber tread on the bottom, swiveling on a ball joint. As the wheel rolls, the feet plant themselves one at a time, almost glomming into one continuous tire. If you surf over a bump, the spokes contract to roll over it. If you surf over a pothole, the rubber prongs probe its asphalt depths.
From Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson.
Published by Bantam in 1992
Thanks! I will definitely be checking that out.
I have been thinking about getting this FM Transmitter from the C Crane Company. Yes, everyone's favorite radio manufacturer and sponsor of Art Bell and Drug Limbug.
/End C Crane Plug.
C Crane makes one whose best feature is that you can set the retransmission frequency. I've bought the cheap ones to find that the four frequencies they choose are often already used in the cities I am in.
It's currently, uh, $69.95 but comes with free shipping.
FM Transmitter features:
* Full stereo on any FM frequency of your choice.
* Exceptionally clean and stable digital tuning for drift-free accurate transfer.
* Selectable Power-Off Timer.
* Approximate line-of-sight range of 70 ft. Walls and metal objects will reduce this range.
* Runs on included AC Adapter or (2) optional "AA" batteries.
* Portable, fits in the palm of your hand.
* Weighs just 5.8 ozs.
* Size: 3.1" W x 3.5" H x 1.1"
I spent several hours today trying to figure out how I could take NPR's All Music Considered programs which are in Real Media and convert them to MP3 to download to my MP3 player.
. com (look for rm recorder)
I wasn't terribly successful. Nothing said it could do streaming media and restream it. Several products claim to be able to take streams and record them, and then convert them for you to play back later.
I didn't find anything GPL'd.
Non GPL'd products can apparently be found at:
totalrecorder.com
replay-music.com
wmrecorder
Can you outline a brief tutorial on how you do that? Or provide a link or two?
Thanks!
If you don't ask the librarian about wifi, they won't know there is a demand for it.
Damn you, that blows my Sigourney Weaver in heather underwear fantasies.
What I thought was most interesting was the audience reaction shots showing that the vast majority of them were in complete agreement with Stewart.
Was this a Crossfire audience or a Daily Show Audience? It seemed to be an audience in complete agreement that Crossfire is not a news show but a theatre act akin to the Roman Coliseum: watch some poor schmuck disembowled, and yesterday it was Tucker Carlson.
I am waiting for the robot bird that eats mosquitos (especially West Nile!)
Programs that take all day to install won't be installed. Successful applications will have one installer and a usable, understandable install script. Products that install hundreds of programs that have no perceived value will fail, as they should.
1x4x9x16
a "glider" is something else - a high-speed device with significant aerodynamic lift - initially powered by atmospheric thermal energy in the form of updrafts storing energy by raising a NON-bouyant craft against gravity, then trading this stored energy for momentum as necessary by gliding downward. Raising a neutrally-bouyant object stores no energy.)
Bzzt. Wrong.
Potential Energy = Mass * g * Height
How an object gets to 10,000 feet is irrelevant. Whether an object is neutrally bouyant, negatively buoyant, or positively buoyant is irrelevant.
Please Redo.
Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books
Paper for the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, 2004
February 12, 2004
San Diego, CA
Cory Doctorow
doctorow@craphound.com
--
Forematter:
This talk was initially given at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference [ http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004 ], along with a set of slides that, for copyright reasons (ironic!) can't be released alongside of this file. However, you will find, interspersed in this text, notations describing the places where new slides should be loaded, in [square-brackets].
This text is dedicated to the public domain, using a Creative Commons public domain dedication:
> Copyright-Only Dedication (based on United States law)
>
> The person or persons who have associated their work with this
> document (the "Dedicator") hereby dedicate the entire copyright
> in the work of authorship identified below (the "Work") to the
> public domain.
>
> Dedicator makes this dedication for the benefit of the public at
> large and to the detriment of Dedicator's heirs and successors.
> Dedicator intends this dedication to be an overt act of
> relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights
> under copyright law, whether vested or contingent, in the Work.
> Dedicator understands that such relinquishment of all rights
> includes the relinquishment of all rights to enforce (by lawsuit
> or otherwise) those copyrights in the Work.
>
> Dedicator recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the
> Work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used,
> modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any
> purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including
> by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived.
--
For starters, let me try to summarize the lessons and intuitions I've had about ebooks from my release of two novels and most of a short story collection online under a Creative Commons license. A parodist who published a list of alternate titles for the presentations at this event called this talk, "eBooks Suck Right Now," [eBooks suck right now] and as funny as that is, I don't think it's true.
No, if I had to come up with another title for this talk, I'd call it: "Ebooks: You're Soaking in Them." [Ebooks: You're Soaking in Them] That's because I think that the shape of ebooks to come is almost visible in the way that people interact with text today, and that the job of authors who want to become rich and famous is to come to a better understanding of that shape.
I haven't come to a perfect understanding. I don't know what the future of the book looks like. But I have ideas, and I'll share them with you:
1. Ebooks aren't marketing. [Ebooks aren't marketing] OK, so ebooks *are* marketing: that is to say that giving away ebooks sells more books. Baen Books, who do a lot of series publishing, have found that giving away electronic editions of the previous installments in their series to coincide with the release of a new volume sells the hell out of the new book -- and the backlist. And the number of people who wrote to me to tell me about how much they dug the ebook and so bought the paper-book far exceeds the number of people who wrote to me and said, "Ha, ha, you hippie, I read your book for free and now I'm not gonna buy it." But ebooks *shouldn't* be just about marketing: ebooks are a goal unto themselves. In the final analysis, more people will read more words off more screens and fewer words off fewer pages and when those two lines cross, ebooks are gonna have to be the way that writers earn their keep, not the way that they promote the dead-tree editions.
2. Ebooks complement paper books. [Ebooks complement paper books]. Having an ebook is good. Having a paper book is good. Having both is even better. One reader wrote to me and said that he read half my first
It's certainly the case that to distribute the OS you need to buy it.
If you are joe random programmer that wishes EXPERIENCE developing VxWorks applications, there are no downloads I can see on the WindRiver site to download the x86 Intel version for learning.
So if I can pick up this modem for $100, get to a VxWorks shell with the new firmware, then potentially I have access to an experimental VxWorks development platform (one with at least two ethernet ports to boot!) that I don't think I can obtain otherwise from WindRiver or elsewhere.
Last time I checked (3-4 years ago), VxWorks was not available for downloading. I assume by your post that that has changed. Glad to hear that.
For engineers eager to gain VxWorks experience inexpensively, how reasonable a development platform is this modem?
But what about the counseling for the stressed email queues you insensitive clod!
Please respect copyright by not posting the full text of articles. /. readers can register or not read the Times. It should be up to the Times to decide. /. readers that have chosen not to register have chosen not to read.
If you support GPL, then you need to support the copyright it is based on.
packet writing or multi-session cd-rom?
"In order to prove that free markets cannot produce reliable energy, we actually need a free market to study."
Are you saying we have no free markets, or just no free markets in energy?
If the former, than that sounds suspiciously similar to the arguments of various communists and socialists that the USSR and China never really were true communism....
If the latter, can you have a truly free market in energy if your environmental, lifestyle, and safety reasons you can't let companies build new dams, generators, transmission lines, power poles any damn place they feel like it?
Or, rather, in your cry for a free market, is there any market realizable in today's society that would fit your definition?
Wel according to the article the machine offers nothing to make configuring the firewall (IP Filtering + NAT) easy or foolproof.
So what do we got? Not much more than cheapo walmart pc and distro.
We got a linux based firewall running on the same machine as the files and photos and everything else.
What the hell is the difference between this and any other linux machine?
It certainly won't make security or sysadmin any easier.
It's a home linux nightmare waiting to happen. Can't wait.