1 blue 2 blue/white 3 green 4 orange 5 orange/white 6 green/white 7 brown 8 brown/white
i.e. only pins 1,2,3 and 6 are used by ethernet. And the twisted pairs need to be matched to 1/2 and 3/6. To make a cross over cable, these are the pairs that you have to switch.
Yeah. Ever read Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)? I think this was the book this sceen is from. They needed to chase down a crimminal (in this case, one who owned a book) but got off the trail. Since the chase was televised (note, this predates OJ Simpson), they had to find someone else to catch, which the proceeded to do, so that all the viewers thought that the "villian" was caught. Meanwhile, the real guy who had the book watched it all on TV.
There was a post copied to the I-Appliance BBS (best source of hacking info for this) from a former employee who worked on the design. He had to stay within his NDA, but said the cost of manufacture was $403, before shipping.
Just playing devil's (that'd be Mattel's) advocate here...
They're making it sound like the people who cracked the encryption are promoting children seeing porn instead of promoting the anti-censorship movement. Way to keep neutral, Yahoo.
well, actually, from the web page, they say, and I quote:
Let's talk about the passwords. The cyberp.ini contains a main section, "Cyber Patrol", under which the two passwords are stored in the keys "HQ PWD" and "DEPUTY PWD". The data of both these keys is encoded as a hexadecimal string representing eight bytes, or 64 bits if you prefer. It can look something like this:
The deputy password is in fact the password encrypted using cp4crypt(), so it is a simple matter of decoding the hex-string into binary and then decrypting the string using the key 0x08, the maximum length of a password, and voilá; instant unrestricted access to the Internet. Are you impressed? We're impressed.
So technically, when the report said "two computer experts developed a method for kids to deduce their parents' password and access those Web sites" they were right. However, that you can't examine a file that you buoght, uh, licensed, well it just gets me pretty scared.
or instance, having used BeOS at home for a while, I find that the ability to right-click on a window tab and have that window go to the bottom of the z-order is an *invaluable* behaviour. When I have several different windows open, that ability becomes incredibly useful to toggle between them without resorting to pull-down or context menus. However, not only do KDE nor GNOME provide that, but they don't offer a mechanism for me to specify that action.
Of course they do, or at least KDE does. Go into K control Panel. It even lets you choose which mouse button. On my computers with three buttons, I have it configured for the middle button. For my laptop with two buttons, I have it configured for the right button. I really miss this when I am in windows, like I am stuck with at work right now.
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The memory issue is key. I recently installed Slack on an old 386 I am using as a small server on my home network since it only had 8 MB of RAM. The Redhat installer needs more to run, and there's no way to get it to turn on the swap partition while it is running.
I started with slack 3.0 back in 96, but eventually moved to redhat for the upgradability. This is the biggest stumbling block as far as I'm concerned. You can't up grade the entire diistribution like you can in RedHat. You have to either constantly upgrade pakage by package, or reinstall. Sure, the REdhat upgrades don't always go smoothly, but they always work eventually.
Stuff is added and removed at random. A perfect example is the win95 interface and it's dialog boxes within dialog boxes and its different kinds of open-save panels. A designer decides that he/she likes this look or behavior better and breaks all traces of consistency. It would be interesting to see what MS could produce if they defined a feature-set ahead of time and then wrote the code to implement it.
<sarcasm> Yeah, they should do it like linux apps where all the dialogue boxes and other UI elements are the same from app to app</sarcasm>
Seriously, although I understand the beenfits of freedom of programming and styles allowed by the X, I really wish there could be more uniformity amond applications with regard to some standard UI features. If nothing else, consistent keyboard bindings. I really benefit when I use windows that C-C will always copy and C-V will always paste.
Surprise surprise, VA Linuxdot, err, Slashdot, bashes a different Linux distro.
Bzzzzzt!
VA Linux is not another distro. From their website:
VA Linux Systems Software Package v.6.0
Although we do not create our own distribution, VA optimizes the Linux kernel for each system type and includes the most popular Linux distributions preinstalled.
No. Jon's decryption algorithm is written by one person. But it will need development support from other people to build a fully operational DVD player.
Precisely. That's why I said "This is not a "when are you going to complete your player program" question." I specifically phrased my question in the passive ("player actually being released?") rather than the active ("you release the player?") since I figure, especially with the legal and media distractions, he probably won't be able to focus too much on coding in the near future.
Oh, and by the way Linux (i.e. the kernel) is not written by one person. Linus estimates the code to be about 10% his nowadays.
Jon, I am 100% behind you, and cringe at the distortions of your efforts in the media. It is entirely clear that DeCSS has been developed in order to watch DVD videos on linux boxen, not as a means to "piracy". However, this point could be driven home a lot more effectively if there were actually a DeCSS-based linux DVD player. In understand that even with DeCSS, there are some technical problems getting DVDs to play on linux.
This is not a "when are you going to complete your player program" question. If I were a coder, I would help. My question is simply when do you see the first player actually being released? What are the remaining technical difficulties to getting DVD playback to work on linux, now that the CSS hurdle has been cleared?
Probably due in large part to the open dvd site, CNN's story actually correctly states DeCSS is for watching DVDs under linux, rather than a copying mechanism as my local papers have been claiming.
The electric light bulb was popularized around the turn of this last century (was the the 1901 Paris World's Fair that was covered in lights?)
Nope. It was the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo, NY (then the country's 8th largest city). Hydro-electricity was supplied in great quantities (for the time) from generators at Niagara Falls.
Unfortunately, the exposition is most famous for President McKinley's assination there.
I've got about 100 Vinyl LPs I want to convert to MP3, and then store them on a server that can stream to other machines on my network or to my stereo system. Setting up the feed to the stereo won't be hard (just build a cheap box with at least a pentium and a sound card). But how would I, I guess, rip the LPs? Everything out there is about ripping CDs.
I guess I start with the turntable plugged into the line-in port of the sound card, but where do I go from there?
Is there a need to go with anything other than a basic (read cheap) sound card, either for the ripping or the playback?
We have more artists than anyone can think of a use for, so why encourage more of them?
This is the most absurd thing I have heard in two years of daily slashdot reading, and that is saying something! Give me a break. So all the music we will ever need has already been produced? There will never be anything better than what we have now? When all the current musicians die off, we won't need any new ones since we can just listen to them on CD?
What if I said this in 1993: "We have more software and programmers than anyone can think of a use for, so why encourage more of them? What else do we need besides a spreadsheet, word processor, etc." Yeah right. So then so much for developing Mosaic!
Disclaimer: this is not be construed to mean that I support UCITA - I don't. Artists can and will flourish without UCITA, maybe even more so
I have a Inspiron 3500 and absolutely love it. It does seem kind of fragile though, so I hope it holds up in the long term (doesn't do too much traveling). Setting up RH6.1 was a no-brainer. If I wasn't already a linux geek, I would be saying "XF86Config? what's that?"
Oh yeah, the Xircom....
Dell sells the cardbus version of this. IT DOESN"T WORK WITH LINUX! No, I didn't learn this the hard way. Just go on dejanews and look for David Hinds (the linux PCMCIA guru, since you said you were a newbie) telling folks it doesn't work.
I picked up a 16-bit (REM* model, not the REMB* model) Xircom realport 56K modem and 10BT (not 10/100) ethernet from compusa on-line for $200. It works almost like a charm. The ethernet is great. The modem works, but with strange problems. Usually it works great. But on certain downloads, it just stalls at the same point every time (the file I had problems with was the VmWare tools for windows). It will repeatedly stall in the same location every time. Web surfing was flawless, but I had some problems accessing an IMAP mailbox. These problems do not show up when booted into windows.
I am using the pcmcia distribution that came with RH6.1. I am going to check to see if there is a newer one, and if that hives the same problem, I'll file a bug report.
Anybody else using the 16-bit Xircom Realport with Linux?
AOL will continue it's push to try and BE the Internet.
But how can that be when AOL doesn't even offer internet service? Sure, you can get e-mail and view web pages. But unless you have a TCP/IP connection to the rest of internet, with a (dynamically-assigned at least) IP address, you are not getting internet service. Last I checked AOL didn't offer this, or at least you have to be a geek and set up some sort of hack to get a PPP connection.
For the sake of argument, lets say I agree with your reasoning. However, your argument would only apply to someone who bought a computer preinstalled with Windows and immediately reformated and installed another operating system. Are there lots of people like that out there? Yes (although I've kept a windows partition on every linux box I have running, personally). Do you think this describes most of the people waiting in line at Best Buy to get their "free" DVD player? I don't think so.
But has there been a Linux DVD player written yet using DeCSS? I agree that use of Linux for DVD is the central issue over DeCSS. But if there is no player written yet using DeCSS, wouldn't it be our turn to get laughed out of court? IIRC, back when the DeCSS brouhaha first broke out a month or so ago, I think I read in/. post or a link therefrom that said there were still problems getting DVD movies to play (something about not synchronizing vvideo and sound, or something like that). These are problems that probably can be solved. But it would make a hell of better case in January to have such a player running on a laptop. I guess that was the orginal posters point. But my question is there such a player?
This is lots of fine info and all that, but of little relevance to this topic. The topic is about a bacterium that has been studied for cleaning up waste generated during the manhatten project. Waste handling practices back then were pretty dreadful, so there are many instances of radioactive and hazardous (in the chemical sense) "mixed" wastes. This bacterium is being studied to treat the hazardous portion of these mixed wastes.
This has nothing to do with living better, more sustainable lives right now (unless you live next to Hanford, that is!). And it has nothing to do with removing or otherwise treating radioactivity.
That this bacterium can withstand such high levels of radiation is truly unique. However, not much else about it is. Bacteria are routinely used in site cleanups. The most common use of bacteria is the degradation of organic compounds, primarily hydrocarbons. In this case, the hydrocarbons are aerobically transformed to carbon dioxide and water. Other compounds are also biodegradable to more or less extents. Chlorinated compounds are difficult (primarily due to the steric hindrance caused by the large chlroine atoms), but are subject mainly to anaerobic degradation through reductive dechlorination, or cometabolic degradation.
Now what this article is discussing is a bacterium that transforms mercury. There is also a lot of literature about "metals biodegradation", but of course, metals are elements, and can not be destroyed. What happens in "metals biodegradation" is that the metals are transformed into different oxidation states that are less toxic or harmful. For example, hexavalent chromium is significantly more toxic than the trivalent form.
In the case of mercury, the main concern is methylated mercury versus elemental or ionic mercury. Methylmercury is the most toxic form since it can bioaccumulate (essentially acting like an organic due to its methyl groups) and thus more easily get taken up ny living organisms (nothing is toxic to you unless you get it in your body by ingestion, inhalation, or through dermal absorption. This excludes radiation, of course). So I am guessing that this bacterium somehow demethylates methylated mercury. It probably produces elemental mercury (i.e. liquid mercury) which is less likely to be ingested, or else some sort of mercurous or mercuric salt that is insoluble (mercuric phosphate, maybe?) and not likely to be remetabolized into the methyl form.
The USAir -> USAirways change strikes me as lame to the extreme. How much money did that take? Oy.
I think that was because of their semi-merger with Brittish Airways. They wanted to make the names sound similar. They also repainted their planes to look kinda like BA planes, too. Still quite a stupid waste of money.
I'm pretty sure that once Corel notices the hubbub they'll probably just change their licencing agreement. Wait out the holiday weekend, and I'm sure we'll see some reponse from them after everyone comes back from vacation.
Um... Canadian Thanksgiving is in October. They aren't "on vacation".
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I always thought that it went like this:
1 blue
2 blue/white
3 green
4 orange
5 orange/white
6 green/white
7 brown
8 brown/white
i.e. only pins 1,2,3 and 6 are used by ethernet. And the twisted pairs need to be matched to 1/2 and 3/6. To make a cross over cable, these are the pairs that you have to switch.
Yeah. Ever read Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)? I think this was the book this sceen is from. They needed to chase down a crimminal (in this case, one who owned a book) but got off the trail. Since the chase was televised (note, this predates OJ Simpson), they had to find someone else to catch, which the proceeded to do, so that all the viewers thought that the "villian" was caught. Meanwhile, the real guy who had the book watched it all on TV.
There was a post copied to the I-Appliance BBS (best source of hacking info for this) from a former employee who worked on the design. He had to stay within his NDA, but said the cost of manufacture was $403, before shipping.
They're making it sound like the people who cracked the encryption are promoting children seeing porn instead of promoting the anti-censorship movement. Way to keep neutral, Yahoo.
well, actually, from the web page, they say, and I quote:
So technically, when the report said "two computer experts developed a method for kids to deduce their parents' password and access those Web sites" they were right. However, that you can't examine a file that you buoght, uh, licensed, well it just gets me pretty scared.
Yeah. Just look at Linux. Cooked up originally by a college student in his spare time. What a piece of crap that is ;-)
Seriously, though, I wonder if the University of Helsinki had such a policy back in the early 90s, if this is a typical European policy.
Of course they do, or at least KDE does. Go into K control Panel. It even lets you choose which mouse button. On my computers with three buttons, I have it configured for the middle button. For my laptop with two buttons, I have it configured for the right button. I really miss this when I am in windows, like I am stuck with at work right now.
I started with slack 3.0 back in 96, but eventually moved to redhat for the upgradability. This is the biggest stumbling block as far as I'm concerned. You can't up grade the entire diistribution like you can in RedHat. You have to either constantly upgrade pakage by package, or reinstall. Sure, the REdhat upgrades don't always go smoothly, but they always work eventually.
Reason: they sell MS Office. But they give away IE and media player. Which do you think they would start with?
<sarcasm> Yeah, they should do it like linux apps where all the dialogue boxes and other UI elements are the same from app to app</sarcasm>
Seriously, although I understand the beenfits of freedom of programming and styles allowed by the X, I really wish there could be more uniformity amond applications with regard to some standard UI features. If nothing else, consistent keyboard bindings. I really benefit when I use windows that C-C will always copy and C-V will always paste.
Surprise surprise, VA Linuxdot, err, Slashdot, bashes a different Linux distro.
Bzzzzzt!
VA Linux is not another distro. From their website:
VA Linux Systems Software Package v.6.0
Although we do not create our own distribution, VA optimizes the Linux kernel for each system type and includes the most popular Linux distributions preinstalled.
No. Jon's decryption algorithm is written by one person. But it will need development support from other people to build a fully operational DVD player.
Precisely. That's why I said "This is not a "when are you going to complete your player program" question." I specifically phrased my question in the passive ("player actually being released?") rather than the active ("you release the player?") since I figure, especially with the legal and media distractions, he probably won't be able to focus too much on coding in the near future.
Oh, and by the way Linux (i.e. the kernel) is not written by one person. Linus estimates the code to be about 10% his nowadays.
Jon, I am 100% behind you, and cringe at the distortions of your efforts in the media. It is entirely clear that DeCSS has been developed in order to watch DVD videos on linux boxen, not as a means to "piracy". However, this point could be driven home a lot more effectively if there were actually a DeCSS-based linux DVD player. In understand that even with DeCSS, there are some technical problems getting DVDs to play on linux.
This is not a "when are you going to complete your player program" question. If I were a coder, I would help. My question is simply when do you see the first player actually being released? What are the remaining technical difficulties to getting DVD playback to work on linux, now that the CSS hurdle has been cleared?
Probably due in large part to the open dvd site, CNN's story actually correctly states DeCSS is for watching DVDs under linux, rather than a copying mechanism as my local papers have been claiming.
Unexpected, but, "way to go" CNN.
The electric light bulb was popularized around the turn of this last century (was the the 1901 Paris World's Fair that was covered in lights?)
Nope. It was the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo, NY (then the country's 8th largest city). Hydro-electricity was supplied in great quantities (for the time) from generators at Niagara Falls.
Unfortunately, the exposition is most famous for President McKinley's assination there.
I've got about 100 Vinyl LPs I want to convert to MP3, and then store them on a server that can stream to other machines on my network or to my stereo system. Setting up the feed to the stereo won't be hard (just build a cheap box with at least a pentium and a sound card). But how would I, I guess, rip the LPs? Everything out there is about ripping CDs.
I guess I start with the turntable plugged into the line-in port of the sound card, but where do I go from there?
Is there a need to go with anything other than a basic (read cheap) sound card, either for the ripping or the playback?
We have more artists than anyone can think of a use for, so why encourage more of them?
This is the most absurd thing I have heard in two years of daily slashdot reading, and that is saying something! Give me a break. So all the music we will ever need has already been produced? There will never be anything better than what we have now? When all the current musicians die off, we won't need any new ones since we can just listen to them on CD?
What if I said this in 1993: "We have more software and programmers than anyone can think of a use for, so why encourage more of them? What else do we need besides a spreadsheet, word processor, etc." Yeah right. So then so much for developing Mosaic!
Disclaimer: this is not be construed to mean that I support UCITA - I don't. Artists can and will flourish without UCITA, maybe even more so
I have a Inspiron 3500 and absolutely love it. It does seem kind of fragile though, so I hope it holds up in the long term (doesn't do too much traveling). Setting up RH6.1 was a no-brainer. If I wasn't already a linux geek, I would be saying "XF86Config? what's that?"
Oh yeah, the Xircom....
Dell sells the cardbus version of this. IT DOESN"T WORK WITH LINUX! No, I didn't learn this the hard way. Just go on dejanews and look for David Hinds (the linux PCMCIA guru, since you said you were a newbie) telling folks it doesn't work.
I picked up a 16-bit (REM* model, not the REMB* model) Xircom realport 56K modem and 10BT (not 10/100) ethernet from compusa on-line for $200. It works almost like a charm. The ethernet is great. The modem works, but with strange problems. Usually it works great. But on certain downloads, it just stalls at the same point every time (the file I had problems with was the VmWare tools for windows). It will repeatedly stall in the same location every time. Web surfing was flawless, but I had some problems accessing an IMAP mailbox. These problems do not show up when booted into windows.
I am using the pcmcia distribution that came with RH6.1. I am going to check to see if there is a newer one, and if that hives the same problem, I'll file a bug report.
Anybody else using the 16-bit Xircom Realport with Linux?
AOL will continue it's push to try and BE the Internet.
But how can that be when AOL doesn't even offer internet service? Sure, you can get e-mail and view web pages. But unless you have a TCP/IP connection to the rest of internet, with a (dynamically-assigned at least) IP address, you are not getting internet service. Last I checked AOL didn't offer this, or at least you have to be a geek and set up some sort of hack to get a PPP connection.
For the sake of argument, lets say I agree with your reasoning. However, your argument would only apply to someone who bought a computer preinstalled with Windows and immediately reformated and installed another operating system. Are there lots of people like that out there? Yes (although I've kept a windows partition on every linux box I have running, personally). Do you think this describes most of the people waiting in line at Best Buy to get their "free" DVD player? I don't think so.
But has there been a Linux DVD player written yet using DeCSS? I agree that use of Linux for DVD is the central issue over DeCSS. But if there is no player written yet using DeCSS, wouldn't it be our turn to get laughed out of court? IIRC, back when the DeCSS brouhaha first broke out a month or so ago, I think I read in /. post or a link therefrom that said there were still problems getting DVD movies to play (something about not synchronizing vvideo and sound, or something like that). These are problems that probably can be solved. But it would make a hell of better case in January to have such a player running on a laptop. I guess that was the orginal posters point. But my question is there such a player?
This is lots of fine info and all that, but of little relevance to this topic. The topic is about a bacterium that has been studied for cleaning up waste generated during the manhatten project. Waste handling practices back then were pretty dreadful, so there are many instances of radioactive and hazardous (in the chemical sense) "mixed" wastes. This bacterium is being studied to treat the hazardous portion of these mixed wastes.
This has nothing to do with living better, more sustainable lives right now (unless you live next to Hanford, that is!). And it has nothing to do with removing or otherwise treating radioactivity.
That this bacterium can withstand such high levels of radiation is truly unique. However, not much else about it is. Bacteria are routinely used in site cleanups. The most common use of bacteria is the degradation of organic compounds, primarily hydrocarbons. In this case, the hydrocarbons are aerobically transformed to carbon dioxide and water. Other compounds are also biodegradable to more or less extents. Chlorinated compounds are difficult (primarily due to the steric hindrance caused by the large chlroine atoms), but are subject mainly to anaerobic degradation through reductive dechlorination, or cometabolic degradation.
Now what this article is discussing is a bacterium that transforms mercury. There is also a lot of literature about "metals biodegradation", but of course, metals are elements, and can not be destroyed. What happens in "metals biodegradation" is that the metals are transformed into different oxidation states that are less toxic or harmful. For example, hexavalent chromium is significantly more toxic than the trivalent form.
In the case of mercury, the main concern is methylated mercury versus elemental or ionic mercury. Methylmercury is the most toxic form since it can bioaccumulate (essentially acting like an organic due to its methyl groups) and thus more easily get taken up ny living organisms (nothing is toxic to you unless you get it in your body by ingestion, inhalation, or through dermal absorption. This excludes radiation, of course). So I am guessing that this bacterium somehow demethylates methylated mercury. It probably produces elemental mercury (i.e. liquid mercury) which is less likely to be ingested, or else some sort of mercurous or mercuric salt that is insoluble (mercuric phosphate, maybe?) and not likely to be remetabolized into the methyl form.
ROTFL on that one. But what about the preceding sentence:
The Linux operating system is generally installed on partition type 83 (Linux native) or 82 (Linux swap).
OK, how many of you out there install linux onto their swap partition?
The USAir -> USAirways change strikes me as lame to the extreme. How much money did that take? Oy.
I think that was because of their semi-merger with Brittish Airways. They wanted to make the names sound similar. They also repainted their planes to look kinda like BA planes, too. Still quite a stupid waste of money.
I'm pretty sure that once Corel notices the hubbub they'll probably just change their licencing agreement. Wait out the holiday weekend, and I'm sure we'll see some reponse from them after everyone comes back from vacation.
Um... Canadian Thanksgiving is in October. They aren't "on vacation".
Jon_S...from just east of the (Buffalo, NY)