My Tivo held 20 hours of programming at the lowest quality setting when I bought it. It was enough to hold my family's favorite shows, as long as we viewed them around a week after recording.
Just last week, I added a hard drive to it and increased the capacity to 120 hours. Now we hardly know how to take advantage of that much space.
Sure, I used vgetty to do this earlier this year. It allows you to run any program after an incoming recording, so I set up a quick bash script to convert the recording to mp3 using the included tools and lame.
Then it added an entry to a database containing the Date & Time, callerID, and length of the message. A simple php page allowed me to check the messages from home or work.
Unfortunately, vgetty is very difficult to get working, and the sound quality of my modem was pretty poor. But it's all there, and very possible.
Nope, only one connection at all. I use it to access my Windows home machine from work, but if my girlfriend is logged in (under a different account), I must either wait or kick her off.
But if she happens to use my Linux box, I can run remote X apps or VNC without worries.
Sounds like a good, simple idea. Could work very well.
But why make it square? As long as we're dreaming, why not make it round, and have the outer zones "soft", controlled by where the HMD is pointed. That way, if you are facing south west, you could take a step to your left (south east), and strafe left. Turn 45 degrees right, and a step to the south would strafe left.
Use Exult. It basically rebuilt the engine to run on modern systems. You'll still need the data from the original Ultima7 (and SI if you want it) though.
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In the old days there weren't as many folks stupidly running shell scripts handed them from unknown sources. This could have been done just as easily with pico and bash, but luckily most linux users have a bit more of a clue.
It's not really a virus, it's just a script (like plenty of shell scripts), that runs writes to an ini file (like echo newstuff > gnutella.ini) and copies its files to the upload directory for gnutella (like cp thisfile/home/gnutella/share/).
A scanner would have done very little good here. And vbs isn't really to blame either. It's just a matter of fooling users into running something they ought not to.
In a word, no. As mentioned before, dictation systems require a lot more training. But command systems, where there are a limited number of words the computer is listening for, are much more forgiving.
I worked up a quick demo of a voice-command system using Microsoft's (I know, I know), SAPI, and it worked equally well for me with my Southern-American Drawl and my boss with his British accent from the very same computer, with no training at all.
I have Outlook with preview pane on, and NO code runs that I don't want to. If a HTML page is presented that contains scripting, it TELLS me before running the script, and I refuse to run it unless I know it's ok.
Once upon a time you could run scripts in HTML in Outlook, but they fixed it long ago.
Bzzzt, sorry. Wrong answer. The virus does NOT run itself from the preview panel. You MUST open the attachment to be infected. I use Outlook. I use the preview panel. I saw the attachment. I did NOT run it. I did NOT get infected.
Actually, you can read the text for ILOVEYOU just as easily (if not easier) from outlook as you could a perl script from Pine.
Just right-click the attachment, then choose EDIT.
I got lots of ILOVEYOUs, and I use Outlook, and I never had an issue. I noticed the unusual.txt.vbs extension on the first one and immediately examined it. I saw it was bad. I did not run it.
I find most of the people who blame Microsoft/Outlook don't understand the nature of the virus or the programs. This virus was NOT automatically launched, it required the user to run it, just like any script.
Get exportsql.txt from the MySQL contributed downloads page. Paste it as a module in the Access database and run it. It will make a SQL "script" which you can run in mySQL to recreate the data exactly. I did something similar for a client some time ago and it worked quite well.
As a plug for a favorite product, I'd suggest pointing the designers toward Visio2000 for database design, rather than doing it directly in Access. Visio2000 lets you visually draw out the entities and relationships. Then, with a few clicks, it will actually create the structure you've drawn on any ODBC-compliant database (Access97, SQL Server, MySQL, whatever). It's VERY usefull for complex database design.
As I heard countless times as a teenager in school, free speech doesn't mean you have the right to say whatever you want whenever you want. The old "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" addage applies.
What does that mean? I'm a little shaky on it, and I'm sure someone will correct me soon enough, but I believe it means you can't say or do things which are obviously meant to harm. Yelling "Fire" in the theater will cause a stampede, which is a bad thing if there is no fire. The code to virus may have interesting (and actually usefull) things within it, but when run on unsuspecting victims, it is another bad thing.
I agree wholeheartedly. The article seems to already be/.ed, but the lines in the post about Microsoft were way overboard. I'm glad the article was pointed out, but it certainly could be done in a more judicious manner.
1. A few of employees have a website which is used as an anonymous forum for flight attendants to discuss work-related issues. This site has been around for some time. These employees did this of their own accord and are NOT officers of the union.www.nwaflightattendants.com(Be good)
2. Northwest and the flight attendants (through their Teamsters' union) are(were?) in contract negotiations.
3. Some messages on the board were posted suggesting a sick-out, where many employees call in sick at the same time in protest. With flight attendants (as with any of the crew), this can severely hamper the airline's ability to run.
4. Several employees (associated with the message board) were given a court order to turn over their PERSONAL computers to search for evidence of illegal labor practices.
Now for what I believe, but am not certain about:
1. Sick-outs are considered an illegal labor practice. There's a lot of legislature out there concening contract negotiation.
2. The one story from an employee that I read stated that he took his PC to an office where technicians from Ernest & Young dismantled the system and did a complete replication of their hard drive.
So, it comes down to NW getting a court order to do a full search of their employees' personal computers. I never saw the word "warrant", but it could have been one.
Hope this clears things up for some folks. My girlfriend is a flight attendant, and they are about to go through contract negotiations. The general concensus is that the company will try several tactics to screw them (they are the most underpaid of all airlines).
I've tried to help her figure out how to organize a bit and get folks to stand up for what they deserve, but with thousands of flight attendants, it takes a lot of work. And the fear of retribution is severe. Horror stories of constant drug tests (the company can drug test whenever they want, which is just an annoyance) and having your superiors watching you like a hawk dissuade most everyone from doing much more than gossipping. Even putting up flyers is a frightening idea.
Personally, I'm appalled at the actions of NWA. Unfortunately, I DON'T think they're the exception in this game.
Found another email for mpaa on their site (but the anti-piracy one might be better). This is from the "related sites" page and asks if readers have any other sites that might be usefull.
It's a nice little cpu-eater that's really simple to use. Something along the lines of "moslo -66 whatever.exe" will slow the cpu by 66% and run your program. It'r pretty prolific on the net, especially on fan sites of old games. Origin even packaged it with the Ultima Collection so folks could play the old Ultima games on their beefy new systems.
Also, this is the "demo test", what you got was probably the "test". Next week will probably be the "official demo."
Basically, id releases a couple of beta tests to the public before they finalize the code. Like qTest came out quite a while before the real Quake or Quake demo (just episode one) came out. This is a test of what will be in the real demo.
I finally decided to take the plunge a couple of months ago. I know a lot of people who had wonderfull results, and without my lenses I cannot read the big E on the charts. It sounded perfect.
But, it seems my eyes are STILL changing too much, even at 27 years of age. My astigmatism is growing at an alarming rate, and until it slows, I'm stuck with coke-bottles on (or in) my eyes.
So, if your eyes are changing, just relax and wait a year or two, then try again.
On a side note, any ideas on what would cause an astigmatism to grow a number 2 years in a row? The doctor had no explanaition, but was just relieved that the curvature of my eye was stable.
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My Tivo held 20 hours of programming at the lowest quality setting when I bought it. It was enough to hold my family's favorite shows, as long as we viewed them around a week after recording.
Just last week, I added a hard drive to it and increased the capacity to 120 hours. Now we hardly know how to take advantage of that much space.
Sure, I used vgetty to do this earlier this year. It allows you to run any program after an incoming recording, so I set up a quick bash script to convert the recording to mp3 using the included tools and lame.
Then it added an entry to a database containing the Date & Time, callerID, and length of the message. A simple php page allowed me to check the messages from home or work.
Unfortunately, vgetty is very difficult to get working, and the sound quality of my modem was pretty poor. But it's all there, and very possible.
You can play Wasteland on the AppleCE emulator. I haven't tried the gameplay yet, but the intro runs great.
Nope, only one connection at all. I use it to access my Windows home machine from work, but if my girlfriend is logged in (under a different account), I must either wait or kick her off.
But if she happens to use my Linux box, I can run remote X apps or VNC without worries.
Sounds like a good, simple idea. Could work very well.
But why make it square? As long as we're dreaming, why not make it round, and have the outer zones "soft", controlled by where the HMD is pointed. That way, if you are facing south west, you could take a step to your left (south east), and strafe left. Turn 45 degrees right, and a step to the south would strafe left.
Use Exult. It basically rebuilt the engine to run on modern systems. You'll still need the data from the original Ultima7 (and SI if you want it) though.
In the old days there weren't as many folks stupidly running shell scripts handed them from unknown sources. This could have been done just as easily with pico and bash, but luckily most linux users have a bit more of a clue.
It's not really a virus, it's just a script (like plenty of shell scripts), that runs writes to an ini file (like echo newstuff > gnutella.ini) and copies its files to the upload directory for gnutella (like cp thisfile /home/gnutella/share/).
A scanner would have done very little good here. And vbs isn't really to blame either. It's just a matter of fooling users into running something they ought not to.
I think they gave you some of the best advice in their correspondence with you, "we suggest that you have an attorney contact me on your behalf.
"
Really, a competant attorney will probably help MUCH more than a bunch of conjecture here.
In a word, no. As mentioned before, dictation systems require a lot more training. But command systems, where there are a limited number of words the computer is listening for, are much more forgiving.
I worked up a quick demo of a voice-command system using Microsoft's (I know, I know), SAPI, and it worked equally well for me with my Southern-American Drawl and my boss with his British accent from the very same computer, with no training at all.
Sorry, incorrect.
I have Outlook with preview pane on, and NO code runs that I don't want to. If a HTML page is presented that contains scripting, it TELLS me before running the script, and I refuse to run it unless I know it's ok.
Once upon a time you could run scripts in HTML in Outlook, but they fixed it long ago.
Bzzzt, sorry. Wrong answer. The virus does NOT run itself from the preview panel. You MUST open the attachment to be infected. I use Outlook. I use the preview panel. I saw the attachment. I did NOT run it. I did NOT get infected.
Actually, you can read the text for ILOVEYOU just as easily (if not easier) from outlook as you could a perl script from Pine.
.txt.vbs extension on the first one and immediately examined it. I saw it was bad. I did not run it.
Just right-click the attachment, then choose EDIT.
I got lots of ILOVEYOUs, and I use Outlook, and I never had an issue. I noticed the unusual
I find most of the people who blame Microsoft/Outlook don't understand the nature of the virus or the programs. This virus was NOT automatically launched, it required the user to run it, just like any script.
Get exportsql.txt from the MySQL contributed downloads page. Paste it as a module in the Access database and run it. It will make a SQL "script" which you can run in mySQL to recreate the data exactly. I did something similar for a client some time ago and it worked quite well.
As a plug for a favorite product, I'd suggest pointing the designers toward Visio2000 for database design, rather than doing it directly in Access. Visio2000 lets you visually draw out the entities and relationships. Then, with a few clicks, it will actually create the structure you've drawn on any ODBC-compliant database (Access97, SQL Server, MySQL, whatever). It's VERY usefull for complex database design.
As I heard countless times as a teenager in school, free speech doesn't mean you have the right to say whatever you want whenever you want. The old "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" addage applies.
What does that mean? I'm a little shaky on it, and I'm sure someone will correct me soon enough, but I believe it means you can't say or do things which are obviously meant to harm. Yelling "Fire" in the theater will cause a stampede, which is a bad thing if there is no fire. The code to virus may have interesting (and actually usefull) things within it, but when run on unsuspecting victims, it is another bad thing.
Am I on the right track?
I agree wholeheartedly. The article seems to already be /.ed, but the lines in the post about Microsoft were way overboard. I'm glad the article was pointed out, but it certainly could be done in a more judicious manner.
2. Northwest and the flight attendants (through their Teamsters' union) are(were?) in contract negotiations.
3. Some messages on the board were posted suggesting a sick-out, where many employees call in sick at the same time in protest. With flight attendants (as with any of the crew), this can severely hamper the airline's ability to run.
4. Several employees (associated with the message board) were given a court order to turn over their PERSONAL computers to search for evidence of illegal labor practices.
Now for what I believe, but am not certain about:
1. Sick-outs are considered an illegal labor practice. There's a lot of legislature out there concening contract negotiation.
2. The one story from an employee that I read stated that he took his PC to an office where technicians from Ernest & Young dismantled the system and did a complete replication of their hard drive.
So, it comes down to NW getting a court order to do a full search of their employees' personal computers. I never saw the word "warrant", but it could have been one.
Hope this clears things up for some folks. My girlfriend is a flight attendant, and they are about to go through contract negotiations. The general concensus is that the company will try several tactics to screw them (they are the most underpaid of all airlines).
I've tried to help her figure out how to organize a bit and get folks to stand up for what they deserve, but with thousands of flight attendants, it takes a lot of work. And the fear of retribution is severe. Horror stories of constant drug tests (the company can drug test whenever they want, which is just an annoyance) and having your superiors watching you like a hawk dissuade most everyone from doing much more than gossipping. Even putting up flyers is a frightening idea.
Personally, I'm appalled at the actions of NWA. Unfortunately, I DON'T think they're the exception in this game.
Found another email for mpaa on their site (but the anti-piracy one might be better). This is from the "related sites" page and asks if readers have any other sites that might be usefull.
mailto:pegge@mpaa.org
Perhaps some sites with the source. . . ?
Moslo.
It's a nice little cpu-eater that's really simple to use. Something along the lines of "moslo -66 whatever.exe" will slow the cpu by 66% and run your program. It'r pretty prolific on the net, especially on fan sites of old games. Origin even packaged it with the Ultima Collection so folks could play the old Ultima games on their beefy new systems.
Dunno if it works in dosemu tho.
Also, this is the "demo test", what you got was probably the "test". Next week will probably be the "official demo."
Basically, id releases a couple of beta tests to the public before they finalize the code. Like qTest came out quite a while before the real Quake or Quake demo (just episode one) came out. This is a test of what will be in the real demo.
Hope that clarifies.
Jake
I finally decided to take the plunge a couple of months ago. I know a lot of people who had wonderfull results, and without my lenses I cannot read the big E on the charts. It sounded perfect.
But, it seems my eyes are STILL changing too much, even at 27 years of age. My astigmatism is growing at an alarming rate, and until it slows, I'm stuck with coke-bottles on (or in) my eyes.
So, if your eyes are changing, just relax and wait a year or two, then try again.
On a side note, any ideas on what would cause an astigmatism to grow a number 2 years in a row? The doctor had no explanaition, but was just relieved that the curvature of my eye was stable.
www.litestep.com is another good resource for Litestep.