You don't need to know Morse Code to do HAM radio these days, but if you can pass a simple 5WPM test the range of what you can do with amateur radio is significantly more than what you're allowed to do without.
Personally I think the moonbounces, satellite hacking, video and packet radio would be where more people would flock to...
I've grabbed numerous CD images (OpenGroupware, Knoppix, hell even Slackware) through BitTorrent. I imagine news broadcasts and whatnot, if popular, would also do well through 'torrent.
Yes, MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE is a very good indicator of viruses, but I have yet to find a better indicator of spam email than OBFUSCATING_COMMENT. It's set to 12 on my system.
Where I work (warning ugly website ahead) one of our top salesmen was out on a startup on a 4160VAC starter. The customer asked him how wide the stacks were, so he took out his metal measuring tape and measured across the phases.
He was ok, by sheer luck, but the measuring tape has two very decent burn marks at each end where the voltage jumped out and grabbed it. He was thrown back quite a ways and didn't want to move for about twenty minutes, but he lived.
I'm not trolling here, but by definition, unstable in Debian speak refers to the package management of the package is not thoroughly tested. Unstable does not necessarily have anything to do with the software within the package.
Agreed, but seriously how much testing does it take for KDE3.1 to make it into stable? Or OpenOffice, or any moderately new (say in teh last 6-12mos) package? Stable's too old and crufty for any "pretty, flashy, up-to-date" use; if, OTOH, you need a stable webserver or mail server sans bells and whistles, stable's got you.
I've tried most of the Linux distros out there... Slackware still remains on my notebook and on my servers.
Why?
When it comes right down to it, there is just nothing simple and straightforward like a distribution that doesn't pretend to know more than you do. Dependency tracking simply is not that big of a deal. If I try to run something and I miss a dep, what comes up?
$ mplayer transformerfire.mpg mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libartsc.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Windows'll do the exact same thing, and if you're even partially trained on a computer you will know what's wrong and at least be able to bug someone to help you fix it. RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, SuSE, TurboLinux... they all make life difficult if you try to do something the packager doesn't like and if a package doesn't exist for the program you want, you end up keeping track of dependencies in your head anyway.
Debian's especially bad with regards to the stable/unstable trees. Stable's too old and unchanging (which is what it is meant for, so it's not really a fault), while unstable always seems to have package problems which leads you back to dependency hell. Add to it that dpkg and dselect and whatever that newer, "friendlier" package system is called are all difficult to use and you end up with the worst of both worlds.
Sure you can use something like CheckInstall to make your own packages but then you screw up the Debian way unless you're willing to replace practically every occurance of "Linux" with "GNU/Linux" and move various runtime files to where Debian wants them and then maintain said diff. Slackware on the other hand doesn't seem to care, and its package manager is dead simple to boot. Installing, upgrading and removing packages is painless and as I said, if you screw up the deps you get slightly cryptic but not impossible to decypher errors.
If I were to throw out a distribution name for my mom / grandma / whatever, it'd be SuSE. The support's great, the distro is solid and it seems to just be overall easier than any of the other "easy" distros. Debian's politics and packager pissed me off sufficiently to leave it behind.
If I am a.b.c.d and spoofing as w.x.y.z and I connect to 127.0.0.1, I'll hit myself every time. The packet isn't going out the ethernet interface at all, which is where your spoofing is taking place.
Thanks for the info -- I have read up and mplayer seems to support AC3 hardware... if you don't mind, I have another question: if I'm playing straight MP3s (through mplayer) -- do I get plain stereo data out of the digital audio connection?
Got some more data on the driver? I found this one but I don't want to spend the cash on an Extigy if it's not going to work swimmingly.
I'm only interested in digital passthrough, to shove the digital audio stream into my receiver. Hell if you know of any PCI cards that are supported for full 5.1 digital out on Linux I'd be thankful, as I don't need the clean environment if it's all digital.
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So the intro to physics didn't have a pre-requisite for basic algebra? You must TA in one fucked up school.
Does anyone know when dead code removal will be introduced to gcj? I'm linking statically to keep system dependencies very small but unfortunately my binary is reaching huge proportions but only because dead code removal does not work. (i.e. if I never use libc's printf(), don't put it in the final binary.)
I feel this effect particularly badly, being on satellite with up to 1000kbit/sec downloads, and 30-40kbit/sec uploads. Yeah, that's right, slower than a modem. The satellite ISPs have more of an excuse, but not much more.
Not to nitpick, but a modems uplink speed is never more than 33600bps. v.90 is (up to) 56k one way. I think v.92 allows you to select which direction the faster channel uses, but I'm not sure. It's been a while since I've been into telco.
I'm not an audio expert, but what is the advantage of doing this? I mean if you measure all tracks and then subtract off 0.5dB or so from the maximum and set your level to that, would you not have a good recording? Why record quieter if there's nothing on the album that will otherwise clip?
Actually if you've ever used Korganizer or KMail (Kontact is just the mashing of those together), you would know that it's actually pretty straightforward to use. The icons are no worse than MS' icons, and many concepts are difficult to get across in a 24x24 bitmap.
As someone once said: the only truly intuitive interface is the nipple; everything else is learned. All this talk of intuitive interfaces and crap icons is bullshit. Tooltips and context-sensitive help are available, and better icons come with time and inspiration. There simply is no such thing as a truly intuitive application, especially one as complex as a groupware application.
FWIW, Kmail and KOrganizer can be run separately and still maintain their connectedness via the data. you don't have to run Kontact if you don't want to. That is an important difference between MS' implementation and KDE's.
Take a look at many of the USB serial drivers; tiny drivers, very clean. The USB storage drivers, same thing (assed-up hardware is the reason for complexity in those drivers).
Writing a device driver for Linux is no more difficult than writing a device driver for Win32. You're in Ring 0 (for ia32) for both, so a poor driver can cause the system to come down. My suggestion would be to take a look at what you've written for win32, estimate how much of that you can keep, and write the linux kernel abstraction layer code.
If you've written the driver correctly it shouldn't be a very large task at all, I would imagine.
Things like IPSEC and such do not work through nat without non-standard encapuslation and such.
AH won't work because the packets are being mangled, but ESP works just fine. I've set up dozens of Win2k--SuperFreeS/WAN links, many of them behind NAT.
StarOffice is no faster than OpenOffice. I bought StarOffice 6 for Win32 and Linux and it was a waste of money. The support is no better, WP import is nonexistent (despite their marketing blah-blah) -- I called them on this and they first said that it wasn't available on linux because it used win32 dlls, then they said that it wasn't available "yet", even for win32.
The one thing that was nicer was the upgrade patches. For US$70 it's not bad even if you never use it over OO, as you're helping fund OO. I just wish they'd have been more honest in their WP compatibility and support.
Secondly its annoying that it naggs you if you save in.doc format and tries to make you use its own proprietary format.
Tools / Options / Load/Save / General. Edit to your heart's content. Been there since 1.0.1 IIRC.
Finaly That lightbulb has got to go. It's a horrible paperclip clone. Other than that, it's great, and that PDF export is REALLY helpful.
I had written a nice little feature request utilizing that light bulb on ooforum.org... Basically light up the bulb if it sees you doing something over and over again (e.g. fighting the automatic caps correction)... not when it sees you do something once.
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You don't need to know Morse Code to do HAM radio these days, but if you can pass a simple 5WPM test the range of what you can do with amateur radio is significantly more than what you're allowed to do without.
Personally I think the moonbounces, satellite hacking, video and packet radio would be where more people would flock to...
"usda?"
Used to, perhaps?
I've grabbed numerous CD images (OpenGroupware, Knoppix, hell even Slackware) through BitTorrent. I imagine news broadcasts and whatnot, if popular, would also do well through 'torrent.
Yes, MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE is a very good indicator of viruses, but I have yet to find a better indicator of spam email than OBFUSCATING_COMMENT. It's set to 12 on my system.
That's nothing
Where I work (warning ugly website ahead) one of our top salesmen was out on a startup on a 4160VAC starter. The customer asked him how wide the stacks were, so he took out his metal measuring tape and measured across the phases.
He was ok, by sheer luck, but the measuring tape has two very decent burn marks at each end where the voltage jumped out and grabbed it. He was thrown back quite a ways and didn't want to move for about twenty minutes, but he lived.
I'm not trolling here, but by definition, unstable in Debian speak refers to the package management of the package is not thoroughly tested. Unstable does not necessarily have anything to do with the software within the package.
Agreed, but seriously how much testing does it take for KDE3.1 to make it into stable? Or OpenOffice, or any moderately new (say in teh last 6-12mos) package? Stable's too old and crufty for any "pretty, flashy, up-to-date" use; if, OTOH, you need a stable webserver or mail server sans bells and whistles, stable's got you.
I've tried most of the Linux distros out there... Slackware still remains on my notebook and on my servers.
Why?
When it comes right down to it, there is just nothing simple and straightforward like a distribution that doesn't pretend to know more than you do. Dependency tracking simply is not that big of a deal. If I try to run something and I miss a dep, what comes up?
Windows'll do the exact same thing, and if you're even partially trained on a computer you will know what's wrong and at least be able to bug someone to help you fix it. RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, SuSE, TurboLinux... they all make life difficult if you try to do something the packager doesn't like and if a package doesn't exist for the program you want, you end up keeping track of dependencies in your head anyway.
Debian's especially bad with regards to the stable/unstable trees. Stable's too old and unchanging (which is what it is meant for, so it's not really a fault), while unstable always seems to have package problems which leads you back to dependency hell. Add to it that dpkg and dselect and whatever that newer, "friendlier" package system is called are all difficult to use and you end up with the worst of both worlds.
Sure you can use something like CheckInstall to make your own packages but then you screw up the Debian way unless you're willing to replace practically every occurance of "Linux" with "GNU/Linux" and move various runtime files to where Debian wants them and then maintain said diff. Slackware on the other hand doesn't seem to care, and its package manager is dead simple to boot. Installing, upgrading and removing packages is painless and as I said, if you screw up the deps you get slightly cryptic but not impossible to decypher errors.
If I were to throw out a distribution name for my mom / grandma / whatever, it'd be SuSE. The support's great, the distro is solid and it seems to just be overall easier than any of the other "easy" distros. Debian's politics and packager pissed me off sufficiently to leave it behind.
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actually you were probably viewing unicode text in 8-bit charset. Not hidden, just obscured. :-)
um, no.
If I am a.b.c.d and spoofing as w.x.y.z and I connect to 127.0.0.1, I'll hit myself every time. The packet isn't going out the ethernet interface at all, which is where your spoofing is taking place.
Thanks for the info -- I have read up and mplayer seems to support AC3 hardware... if you don't mind, I have another question: if I'm playing straight MP3s (through mplayer) -- do I get plain stereo data out of the digital audio connection?
Got some more data on the driver? I found this one but I don't want to spend the cash on an Extigy if it's not going to work swimmingly.
I'm only interested in digital passthrough, to shove the digital audio stream into my receiver. Hell if you know of any PCI cards that are supported for full 5.1 digital out on Linux I'd be thankful, as I don't need the clean environment if it's all digital.
So the intro to physics didn't have a pre-requisite for basic algebra? You must TA in one fucked up school.
Don't be stupid; those are all the exact same equation with the terms on different sides of the equality. It's not three equations; it's one.
Does anyone know when dead code removal will be introduced to gcj? I'm linking statically to keep system dependencies very small but unfortunately my binary is reaching huge proportions but only because dead code removal does not work. (i.e. if I never use libc's printf(), don't put it in the final binary.)
I feel this effect particularly badly, being on satellite with up to 1000kbit/sec downloads, and 30-40kbit/sec uploads. Yeah, that's right, slower than a modem. The satellite ISPs have more of an excuse, but not much more.
Not to nitpick, but a modems uplink speed is never more than 33600bps. v.90 is (up to) 56k one way. I think v.92 allows you to select which direction the faster channel uses, but I'm not sure. It's been a while since I've been into telco.
I'm not an audio expert, but what is the advantage of doing this? I mean if you measure all tracks and then subtract off 0.5dB or so from the maximum and set your level to that, would you not have a good recording? Why record quieter if there's nothing on the album that will otherwise clip?
I've used VNC with X2VNC and another program that escapes me to do what this fellow wants... Not as insightless as you say...
tar cf - . | (cd /target; tar xf - )
Hope you didn't have any symlinks you wanted...
Actually if you've ever used Korganizer or KMail (Kontact is just the mashing of those together), you would know that it's actually pretty straightforward to use. The icons are no worse than MS' icons, and many concepts are difficult to get across in a 24x24 bitmap.
As someone once said: the only truly intuitive interface is the nipple; everything else is learned. All this talk of intuitive interfaces and crap icons is bullshit. Tooltips and context-sensitive help are available, and better icons come with time and inspiration. There simply is no such thing as a truly intuitive application, especially one as complex as a groupware application.
FWIW, Kmail and KOrganizer can be run separately and still maintain their connectedness via the data. you don't have to run Kontact if you don't want to. That is an important difference between MS' implementation and KDE's.
Take a look at many of the USB serial drivers; tiny drivers, very clean. The USB storage drivers, same thing (assed-up hardware is the reason for complexity in those drivers).
Writing a device driver for Linux is no more difficult than writing a device driver for Win32. You're in Ring 0 (for ia32) for both, so a poor driver can cause the system to come down. My suggestion would be to take a look at what you've written for win32, estimate how much of that you can keep, and write the linux kernel abstraction layer code.
If you've written the driver correctly it shouldn't be a very large task at all, I would imagine.
It's kind of a nasty hack, but won't this work?
??Most volume licensees I know use a Windows Update Server onsite. It's a bit of a whore but that's how they typically deal with these kinds of things.
Things like IPSEC and such do not work through nat without non-standard encapuslation and such.
AH won't work because the packets are being mangled, but ESP works just fine. I've set up dozens of Win2k--SuperFreeS/WAN links, many of them behind NAT.
StarOffice is no faster than OpenOffice. I bought StarOffice 6 for Win32 and Linux and it was a waste of money. The support is no better, WP import is nonexistent (despite their marketing blah-blah) -- I called them on this and they first said that it wasn't available on linux because it used win32 dlls, then they said that it wasn't available "yet", even for win32.
The one thing that was nicer was the upgrade patches. For US$70 it's not bad even if you never use it over OO, as you're helping fund OO. I just wish they'd have been more honest in their WP compatibility and support.
Secondly its annoying that it naggs you if you save in .doc format and tries to make you use its own proprietary format.
Tools / Options / Load/Save / General. Edit to your heart's content. Been there since 1.0.1 IIRC.
Finaly That lightbulb has got to go. It's a horrible paperclip clone. Other than that, it's great, and that PDF export is REALLY helpful.
I had written a nice little feature request utilizing that light bulb on ooforum.org... Basically light up the bulb if it sees you doing something over and over again (e.g. fighting the automatic caps correction)... not when it sees you do something once.