If the Fraunhofer people think we should start using a new audio codec, perhaps we should. But if we're going to be starting over from scratch, why not make it a free codec? Why should I reencode all my mp3s in mp3pro (hmm.. "What should we name our new audio codec guys?" "Uhh.. who cares?" "Mp3pro it is then") when I can just as easily reencode them to something else that isn't restrictively controlled? Perhaps this is a good chance for free codecs to gain ground..
I guess its a neat idea, but it seems like a hack to get around using a JFS. Maybe a Journalling FS takes some time to implement, but i run reiserfs on my laptop just fine with no problems (cept that time I forgot to include it in a kernel compile and rebooted... oops...). This is a lot of work to go through just to get around writing some software.
Also, isn't this going to be a pretty significant load on the PCI Bus? Whats the latency on a pci transaction? It seems like you could run into all sorts of troubles there and perhaps end up slowing down your system with all the traffic..
Or perhaps the pci bus is loads faster than I imagine?
Err, thing is, US gov't doesn't scramble gps anymore. My cheapo garmin eMap usually gives me aboug 12 foot accuracy, more if I can get more satillites. Besides that.. is 12 feet going to matter a whole hell of a lot when you're talking nuclear weapons? You have to miss your target by a whole heck of a lot when your blast radius is, oh say.. a city?
Not *that* much faster. Thats only 750 1ghz thunderbirds, I'm sure distributed.net has far more cpu power than that. Though if you had a distributed.net type setup with a few thousand 750ghz machines...
I've seen people working on this (not on a *nix platform, just the concept in general).. unfortunately I seem to recall the built in error correction in all the dv devices screws you up. Since its expected video data, you basically end up reading a whole bunch of "Bad data" off the tape (as far as the device is concerned) and it screws you over.
One alternative would be to encode the data inside a d-1 format video and write it to tape that way, but then you're not accomplishing a whole lot over using VHS or just buying a darn tape backup. Heh.
So this means that a search engine is now going to need to download every mp3 file it finds each time it crawls the net? Boy I feel sorry for mp3.com when one day some machine @ inktomi decides to pull down *every* mp3 on the site. Thats gonna be an expensive bill...
This would seem to be a horrifically bad idea.. the Three Gorges project is bad enough, but even dispite the use of nuclear blasts, this could create a massive ecological disaster, not just in china, but throughout much of asia. And, if for example china goes and floods out vietnam, whats stopping vietnam from retaliating with weapons. So.. whos side does the US join when its Vietnam VS China? And then.. whos side does Russia join.. hooray for world war iii! grrr
Not to mention the fact that running water thats being used for hydration of crops and therefore most likely also for drinking water through tunnels that were created with nuclear explosions would seem... bad. Very bad. Radiated water supplies do not do good things to the environment.
Just my opinion on the matter, I'm not an engineer nor an ecologist.
Watching the debates last night, i was truely frightened when Bush started talking about blocking content at libraries and schools nationwide. Then he claimed it wasn't censorship. I was expecting him to go on to talk about how "some of the books in them thar libraries ain't too great either, and down in texas we got a solu'ion! We burn 'em! wooo yeeee hah!"...
Both are evil men. One is a stupid evil man, one is a slightly less stupid evil man. Just vote nader and walk away with a clear concious...
Its good to hear the enigma is safe again. Its always a shame when something totally irreplacable like that disappears..
The whole story was kind weird though. Totally reminded me of Cryptonomicon, with the character Enoch Root mysteriously showing up years later. The reports on this enigma machine made it sound like the guy who took it knew how to use it, and had a real familiarity with it, which made me imagine that he used on during WWII. Now we just have to ask this guy where the Japanese gold is buried...
Well, its not that you're not running an fsck with a journalling system (dunno about with tux2, not sure how he does that). What happens in the journal keeps track of all the files the system is using at a given time. When the power drops, or the system spontaneously reboots, the system only has to check the integrity on the files you were using. The only downside is the performance hit you take by having the drive continually writing the files the system is using. but, that is a fairly small hit, easily made up for the first time you get to skip the fsck on a 160gb raid array or something..
Wow, this got me thinking about 'back in the day'. So I pulled up the old source archive from when I [thought i] was 'leet'. Sure enough... 'napster' gets greets in a bunch of the old sources for things like pepsi (which was the foundation for.. just about everything after it.. including smurf from what I recall). Course pepsi was based on echok.. and so on. Anyways, the group was actually Havok I believe.. there was another group Havoc, but they were a bunch of sucks from what I can remember.
...Old school... wow... I knew the same people Shawn knew... creepy...
Well.. given long enough you could crack an encryption scheme with a calculator.. hell, you could crack RSA if you just say down "n / 2.. nope.. n / 3 nope.. n / 4"..
Not to nitpick, and not that gore is a good guy or anything (vote nader!) but your.sig quote is actually from Quayle (lots of quayles quotes get attributed to Gore... somebody screwed up a stupid quotes list at some point and it propogated)
Maybe Jeff's going to sit down with Steve Jobs and explain how cookies work... he can also explain this great new idea for how apple can make more money from every sale.. see you just track what people buy from apple and raise the prices accordingly and...
Sigh. Validating evil patents is *NOT* a good step...
When a mom and pop store overcharges you $4, they're most likely doing it by accident. (or its a criminal action..). When amazon does it, its a "marketing experiment", specifically to see how much they can steal from consumers before anybody notices...
The mom and pop store that puts the wrong price into the cash register can have my $4.
But amazon delibertly trying to screw me... thats just wrong..
If it weren't for that pesky air stuff, people wouldn't be able to listen to those pirate m-p-threeeeee files that are destroying society. In fact, without air, there wouldn't be a society to destroy.
offtopic but... akamai is really hip.. usually I pull ~ 20 - 60K/s over resnet (150K/s when the leeches are out drinking), but the other day I went to download Eudora and got it off an akamai server @ 877K/s. Daaaaamn...
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If the Fraunhofer people think we should start using a new audio codec, perhaps we should. But if we're going to be starting over from scratch, why not make it a free codec? Why should I reencode all my mp3s in mp3pro (hmm.. "What should we name our new audio codec guys?" "Uhh.. who cares?" "Mp3pro it is then") when I can just as easily reencode them to something else that isn't restrictively controlled? Perhaps this is a good chance for free codecs to gain ground..
I guess its a neat idea, but it seems like a hack to get around using a JFS. Maybe a Journalling FS takes some time to implement, but i run reiserfs on my laptop just fine with no problems (cept that time I forgot to include it in a kernel compile and rebooted... oops...). This is a lot of work to go through just to get around writing some software.
Also, isn't this going to be a pretty significant load on the PCI Bus? Whats the latency on a pci transaction? It seems like you could run into all sorts of troubles there and perhaps end up slowing down your system with all the traffic..
Or perhaps the pci bus is loads faster than I imagine?
Its I believe a refernce to the most famous of all cheat codes, the Contra code for the 8bit nintento.
It was up up down down left right left right b a select start.
After that the same code was used on a whole load of nintendo games.. (in contra it gave you a bunch o' lives..)
Err, thing is, US gov't doesn't scramble gps anymore. My cheapo garmin eMap usually gives me aboug 12 foot accuracy, more if I can get more satillites. Besides that.. is 12 feet going to matter a whole hell of a lot when you're talking nuclear weapons? You have to miss your target by a whole heck of a lot when your blast radius is, oh say.. a city?
The atari 2600 was 4bit wasn't it?
Not *that* much faster. Thats only 750 1ghz thunderbirds, I'm sure distributed.net has far more cpu power than that. Though if you had a distributed.net type setup with a few thousand 750ghz machines...
I've seen people working on this (not on a *nix platform, just the concept in general).. unfortunately I seem to recall the built in error correction in all the dv devices screws you up. Since its expected video data, you basically end up reading a whole bunch of "Bad data" off the tape (as far as the device is concerned) and it screws you over.
One alternative would be to encode the data inside a d-1 format video and write it to tape that way, but then you're not accomplishing a whole lot over using VHS or just buying a darn tape backup. Heh.
He must have something configured very poorly if he can only pump 17 emails out a second over dual t1s. Crazy...
I'd say the EFF is a big one.. www.eff.org
They're going to be an extremely important part of decisions as to the future of technology rights..
Just recompile ssh without RSAREF, assuming its already in there...
even worse... "he downloaded a techno mp3, he must be a hacker like we saw on the tee-vee!"
So this means that a search engine is now going to need to download every mp3 file it finds each time it crawls the net? Boy I feel sorry for mp3.com when one day some machine @ inktomi decides to pull down *every* mp3 on the site. Thats gonna be an expensive bill...
My fave was a few days ago when Cnet explained the somebody had figured out a code to allow macintoshes on napster..
Yes.. Up up down down left right left right b a select start...
This would seem to be a horrifically bad idea.. the Three Gorges project is bad enough, but even dispite the use of nuclear blasts, this could create a massive ecological disaster, not just in china, but throughout much of asia. And, if for example china goes and floods out vietnam, whats stopping vietnam from retaliating with weapons. So.. whos side does the US join when its Vietnam VS China? And then.. whos side does Russia join.. hooray for world war iii! grrr
Not to mention the fact that running water thats being used for hydration of crops and therefore most likely also for drinking water through tunnels that were created with nuclear explosions would seem... bad. Very bad. Radiated water supplies do not do good things to the environment.
Just my opinion on the matter, I'm not an engineer nor an ecologist.
Watching the debates last night, i was truely frightened when Bush started talking about blocking content at libraries and schools nationwide. Then he claimed it wasn't censorship. I was expecting him to go on to talk about how "some of the books in them thar libraries ain't too great either, and down in texas we got a solu'ion! We burn 'em! wooo yeeee hah!"...
Both are evil men. One is a stupid evil man, one is a slightly less stupid evil man. Just vote nader and walk away with a clear concious...
Its good to hear the enigma is safe again. Its always a shame when something totally irreplacable like that disappears..
The whole story was kind weird though. Totally reminded me of Cryptonomicon, with the character Enoch Root mysteriously showing up years later. The reports on this enigma machine made it sound like the guy who took it knew how to use it, and had a real familiarity with it, which made me imagine that he used on during WWII. Now we just have to ask this guy where the Japanese gold is buried...
Well, its not that you're not running an fsck with a journalling system (dunno about with tux2, not sure how he does that). What happens in the journal keeps track of all the files the system is using at a given time. When the power drops, or the system spontaneously reboots, the system only has to check the integrity on the files you were using. The only downside is the performance hit you take by having the drive continually writing the files the system is using. but, that is a fairly small hit, easily made up for the first time you get to skip the fsck on a 160gb raid array or something..
Wow, this got me thinking about 'back in the day'. So I pulled up the old source archive from when I [thought i] was 'leet'. Sure enough... 'napster' gets greets in a bunch of the old sources for things like pepsi (which was the foundation for.. just about everything after it.. including smurf from what I recall). Course pepsi was based on echok.. and so on. Anyways, the group was actually Havok I believe.. there was another group Havoc, but they were a bunch of sucks from what I can remember.
...Old school... wow... I knew the same people Shawn knew... creepy...
Well.. given long enough you could crack an encryption scheme with a calculator.. hell, you could crack RSA if you just say down "n / 2 .. nope.. n / 3 nope.. n / 4"..
So, calculators are out...
Not to nitpick, and not that gore is a good guy or anything (vote nader!) but your .sig quote is actually from Quayle (lots of quayles quotes get attributed to Gore... somebody screwed up a stupid quotes list at some point and it propogated)
Maybe Jeff's going to sit down with Steve Jobs and explain how cookies work... he can also explain this great new idea for how apple can make more money from every sale.. see you just track what people buy from apple and raise the prices accordingly and ...
Sigh. Validating evil patents is *NOT* a good step...
Do you find every article in a newspaper (hey, you even have to *pay* for newspapers...) interesting? didn't think so.
This is news to some of us.
If you dont like it, just ignore it..
When a mom and pop store overcharges you $4, they're most likely doing it by accident. (or its a criminal action..). When amazon does it, its a "marketing experiment", specifically to see how much they can steal from consumers before anybody notices...
The mom and pop store that puts the wrong price into the cash register can have my $4.
But amazon delibertly trying to screw me... thats just wrong..
If it weren't for that pesky air stuff, people wouldn't be able to listen to those pirate m-p-threeeeee files that are destroying society. In fact, without air, there wouldn't be a society to destroy.
Problem solved.
Kill everybody, no more napster, metallica wins!!
offtopic but... akamai is really hip.. usually I pull ~ 20 - 60K/s over resnet (150K/s when the leeches are out drinking), but the other day I went to download Eudora and got it off an akamai server @ 877K/s. Daaaaamn...