Er, isn't that from "Devil's Advocate"? Not so far as I am aware
And besides that, isn't it originally a Baudelaire quote, from Les Fleurs Du Mal...? You may be right, but it's not where I heard it (IIRC, Verbal Kint says it in The Usual Suspects)
of starvation.
I never win prizes when I enter competitions. Anyway, did they let him out to claim his prizes, and if he was naked, how did that go down with the competition organisers. A lot of them want a photo shoot with the winner of the competition....!!
If you were genuinely into TiVo Hacking you would know that TiVo has in the past provided some back door assistance for people wishing to hack their Tivo.
Example modifications currently possible to Tivo include:
* addition of Ethernet card (by Andrew Tridgell of Samba development fame!) and LAN operation
* hard disk upgrades. [dual drive units still have problems upgrading]
* memory upgrades [apparently an extra cuple of RAM chips makes TiVo menus come up much faster]
* font and screen changes
The only thing that they don't want "Open Sourced" is the program guide from which they get their money, which is perfectly understandable, and a fair exchange considering the support they've provided to the TiVo hacking community.
If you love your TiVo so much have the courage not to post as an AC - otherwise it reads like a TiVo ad!
I don't think the subscription is too much to pay for something that has revolutionised my viewing habits.
The TiVo may actually be saving me money, as I can earn overtime by working late safe in the knowledge my favourite shows have been recorded. Ang I get to come home and not complain that there is nothing to watch on TV anymore!!
My only complaint is the storage space doesn't seem to be big enough, so when someone releases a genuine 2 drive upgrade hack my system will quickly acquire a couple of 80GB (+?) drives.
I think we should fight to reclaim the word "innovation" from Microsoft FUD campaign. After all, we all know that what is really meant is that Microsofts right to innovate in their proprietary fashion is being stifled by the GPL, whereas standard MS licenses and non open Source policies stifle everyone else's right to innovate.
I do regard it as better to have a 'cancer' that makes everything public and modifiable than the alternative 'cancer' which swallows up and prevents innovation by others.
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Witty, but hardly true - you forget that the English were masters of 25% of the world at one time, and endured extreme hardship to get there [those of you who have endured the English public transport system would say we STILL endure extreme hardship to get anywhere!!].
In actual fact the very size of America often means that a large number of Americans have a very limited knowledge of the outside world, so long distances are only valid to Americans if both endpoints are within the US. I seem to remember that a significant percentage of Americans didn't have a clue where Iraq was when they were fighting a war there! The English however have been everywhere and know where it is, but still dislike everything that is not British. You only have to see our disagreements over Europe to see that.
Neverwhere: great book, needs a sequel ?
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I enjoyed Neverwhere, which describes an alternative London, containing magical, strange historical people and animals, existing between the cracks of the real London. I think the ending is a little "and they all lived happily ever after" though.
I also have to wonder wether he read the short story "Crouch End" by Stephen King before he wrote it. The short story is about a small section of London where dark creatures occasionally break through from other dimensions (bit like Buffy The Vampire Slayer ! )
Odin seems to be a popular figure for modern day mythology. Tom Holt wrote in my opinion an extremely funny book called Expecting Someone Taller; a synopsis of which is that a guy called Malcomn discovers the ring forged by Alberich (from Wagners Ring Cycle) and the gods, lead by Odin and his trickster sidekick Loki, try to convince him that a mortal is not a suitable recipient for a ring which provides unlimited power.
More modern computers have lots of power saving features, so that whilst they may consume more energy whilst computing, they consume less for the 95% of the time they are doing nothing.
So it could be argued that dumping your old energy consuming computer is good for the environment.
P.S. Anyone want my 6502 BBC Micro and 68K Atari ST ??
..if this is true, I think it may come down to commitment. Unix/Linux sysadmins seem to actually love and are committed to their OS, whilst for NT advocates people it's an on the surface liking.
Secondly, Unix encourages you to play with the nuts and bolts, whereas the closed nature of Windows programs does not encourage exploration. Therefore when things do go wrong, a Unix sysadmin knows where the Usual Suspects may be found and can get things back up quick, whereas a Windows admin is busy phoning MS support.
Thirdly, it may come down to ability. I'm under the impression that to truly claim to be a Unix sysadmin you really have to know your Unix, and thus only the best get to go for such jobs. I have a fairly shallow knowledge of how most things hang together under Unix, but there's no way in hell that I'd claim my knowledge is deep enough to sysadmin Unix systems for a corporate entity, where hacking threats and downtime are serious issues. Whereas an NT admin waves his MCSE qualification around and gets the job regardless of how good he is at it. I'm under the impression that the best use for such a qualification is as toilet paper.
N.B. Before I get flamed, I do know there are some very good, professional, experienced NT admins out there; its just that you guys seem to be hidden from view by the not so good masses.
..someone at the US Patent Office is on the ball about the capabilities of DHCP when/if they apply to patent this.
Whilst it is impractical/ impossible to lease IP addresses through DHCP multiple times per minute, it does sound as though it is a sort of faster DHCP.
I believe cable companies advertise the fact they use DHCP as a means of protecting the user from attacks in just this manner; of course the other reason is they don't want any pesky 'ol servers set up on their network....
According to the article World Domination by any one OS is impossible, but lets face it MS got damn close and it is almost certainly a good thing that Linux is there to stop it. Lets face it, nothing else seems likely to.
Linux does currently have its problems on the desktop, but whilst Word/Excel is my document/spreadsheet of choice, I don't expect the situation to stay that way. If/when KOffice is mature enough to read/write Word documents then I will move over. Then all I have to do is get all my games to run in Linux.
Sue for non-payment, if you don't get your money at least you'll stand a chance of eventually closing the b*stards down.
In England (not sure what the situation is in US) I believe you can start court proceedings to close the company if debts are unpaid. Small companies use it quite a lot to force slow paying larger companies to send them a cheque!
Did anyone ever seriously play Traveller ? If so, what was the key to getting it to work ?
I bought the rules and thought it was a pile of poo. The individual combat system was awful and it didn't seem to have the aura of fun that say D&D had.
I do work in the satellite communications industry - so my original post was not really meant to be taken too seriously.
If it came to practicalities, I suppose it would be possible to use Shuttle/ Soyuz to have boosted Mir somewhere close to the orbit of ISS as I understand has been done to ISS.
Forthcoming ISS Crew members....
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If they'd left Mir up there then they could have cannibalised it for useful things e.g. tables, scrap metal etc.
Then when any member of the ISS crew felt an attack of the A-team/MacGuyver 'must build something!' episodes coming on, he/she could've just uses the shuttle as a space bus to go from one to the other.
It has to be said that although support for other architectures is in existence, Linux is primarily an x86 OS.
However I think if you asked Sun nicely it might be possible to get financial/hardware/web support for the Linux port and producing binary apps to run on Linux for Sparc.
Why?, I hear you ask, surely Sun will be pushing Solaris and don't want this upstart anywhere near their nice boxes if they can possibly help it.
IMO, there's a lot of reasons why Sun and other companies (HP??) should do this, and that is that by funding development of a Linux port for their particular processor, mere compilation opens their machines to a huge list of software, and people will buy boxes based on performance and stability, instead of buying a box 'cos it runs Windows. Linux seems to be the only game in town for kicking MS and Intel off the top of the PC market.
It didn't teach me encryption, I'm familiar with is principles from doing Condition Access Teletext and other stuff, but it advanced my state of knowledge, which is all that is required.
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Er, isn't that from "Devil's Advocate"?
Not so far as I am aware
And besides that, isn't it originally a Baudelaire quote, from Les Fleurs Du Mal...?
You may be right, but it's not where I heard it (IIRC, Verbal Kint says it in The Usual Suspects)
Besides I still like it as my sig line
of starvation.
I never win prizes when I enter competitions. Anyway, did they let him out to claim his prizes, and if he was naked, how did that go down with the competition organisers. A lot of them want a photo shoot with the winner of the competition....!!
If you were genuinely into TiVo Hacking you would know that TiVo has in the past provided some back door assistance for people wishing to hack their Tivo.
Example modifications currently possible to Tivo include:
* addition of Ethernet card (by Andrew Tridgell of Samba development fame!) and LAN operation
* hard disk upgrades. [dual drive units still have problems upgrading]
* memory upgrades [apparently an extra cuple of RAM chips makes TiVo menus come up much faster]
* font and screen changes
The only thing that they don't want "Open Sourced" is the program guide from which they get their money, which is perfectly understandable, and a fair exchange considering the support they've provided to the TiVo hacking community.
If you love your TiVo so much have the courage not to post as an AC - otherwise it reads like a TiVo ad!
I don't think the subscription is too much to pay for something that has revolutionised my viewing habits.
The TiVo may actually be saving me money, as I can earn overtime by working late safe in the knowledge my favourite shows have been recorded. Ang I get to come home and not complain that there is nothing to watch on TV anymore!!
My only complaint is the storage space doesn't seem to be big enough, so when someone releases a genuine 2 drive upgrade hack my system will quickly acquire a couple of 80GB (+?) drives.
I think we should fight to reclaim the word "innovation" from Microsoft FUD campaign. After all, we all know that what is really meant is that Microsofts right to innovate in their proprietary fashion is being stifled by the GPL, whereas standard MS licenses and non open Source policies stifle everyone else's right to innovate.
MS should use another word - suggestions anyone ?
I do regard it as better to have a 'cancer' that makes everything public and modifiable than the alternative 'cancer' which swallows up and prevents innovation by others.
Witty, but hardly true - you forget that the English were masters of 25% of the world at one time, and endured extreme hardship to get there [those of you who have endured the English public transport system would say we STILL endure extreme hardship to get anywhere!!].
In actual fact the very size of America often means that a large number of Americans have a very limited knowledge of the outside world, so long distances are only valid to Americans if both endpoints are within the US. I seem to remember that a significant percentage of Americans didn't have a clue where Iraq was when they were fighting a war there! The English however have been everywhere and know where it is, but still dislike everything that is not British. You only have to see our disagreements over Europe to see that.
I enjoyed Neverwhere, which describes an alternative London, containing magical, strange historical people and animals, existing between the cracks of the real London. I think the ending is a little "and they all lived happily ever after" though.
I also have to wonder wether he read the short story "Crouch End" by Stephen King before he wrote it. The short story is about a small section of London where dark creatures occasionally break through from other dimensions (bit like Buffy The Vampire Slayer ! )
Odin seems to be a popular figure for modern day mythology. Tom Holt wrote in my opinion an extremely funny book called Expecting Someone Taller; a synopsis of which is that a guy called Malcomn discovers the ring forged by Alberich (from Wagners Ring Cycle) and the gods, lead by Odin and his trickster sidekick Loki, try to convince him that a mortal is not a suitable recipient for a ring which provides unlimited power.
Well worth a read.
More modern computers have lots of power saving features, so that whilst they may consume more energy whilst computing, they consume less for the 95% of the time they are doing nothing.
So it could be argued that dumping your old energy consuming computer is good for the environment.
P.S. Anyone want my 6502 BBC Micro and 68K Atari ST ??
..if this is true, I think it may come down to commitment. Unix/Linux sysadmins seem to actually love and are committed to their OS, whilst for NT advocates people it's an on the surface liking.
Secondly, Unix encourages you to play with the nuts and bolts, whereas the closed nature of Windows programs does not encourage exploration. Therefore when things do go wrong, a Unix sysadmin knows where the Usual Suspects may be found and can get things back up quick, whereas a Windows admin is busy phoning MS support.
Thirdly, it may come down to ability. I'm under the impression that to truly claim to be a Unix sysadmin you really have to know your Unix, and thus only the best get to go for such jobs. I have a fairly shallow knowledge of how most things hang together under Unix, but there's no way in hell that I'd claim my knowledge is deep enough to sysadmin Unix systems for a corporate entity, where hacking threats and downtime are serious issues. Whereas an NT admin waves his MCSE qualification around and gets the job regardless of how good he is at it. I'm under the impression that the best use for such a qualification is as toilet paper.
N.B. Before I get flamed, I do know there are some very good, professional, experienced NT admins out there; its just that you guys seem to be hidden from view by the not so good masses.
..then IPv6 will need to the defacto IP standard sooner rather than later! Maybe its a cunning ploy to get everyone to upgrade!
..someone at the US Patent Office is on the ball about the capabilities of DHCP when/if they apply to patent this.
Whilst it is impractical/ impossible to lease IP addresses through DHCP multiple times per minute, it does sound as though it is a sort of faster DHCP.
I believe cable companies advertise the fact they use DHCP as a means of protecting the user from attacks in just this manner; of course the other reason is they don't want any pesky 'ol servers set up on their network....
According to the article World Domination by any one OS is impossible, but lets face it MS got damn close and it is almost certainly a good thing that Linux is there to stop it. Lets face it, nothing else seems likely to.
Linux does currently have its problems on the desktop, but whilst Word/Excel is my document/spreadsheet of choice, I don't expect the situation to stay that way. If/when KOffice is mature enough to read/write Word documents then I will move over. Then all I have to do is get all my games to run in Linux.
I believe I still have the boxed set too, but only god knows why!!
Are they worth anything ?
Sue for non-payment, if you don't get your money at least you'll stand a chance of eventually closing the b*stards down.
In England (not sure what the situation is in US) I believe you can start court proceedings to close the company if debts are unpaid. Small companies use it quite a lot to force slow paying larger companies to send them a cheque!
Did anyone ever seriously play Traveller ? If so, what was the key to getting it to work ?
I bought the rules and thought it was a pile of poo. The individual combat system was awful and it didn't seem to have the aura of fun that say D&D had.
I do work in the satellite communications industry - so my original post was not really meant to be taken too seriously.
If it came to practicalities, I suppose it would be possible to use Shuttle/ Soyuz to have boosted Mir somewhere close to the orbit of ISS as I understand has been done to ISS.
B.A. Baracus
MacGuyver
The entire cast of Blue Peter (UK joke!)
If they'd left Mir up there then they could have cannibalised it for useful things e.g. tables, scrap metal etc. Then when any member of the ISS crew felt an attack of the A-team/MacGuyver 'must build something!' episodes coming on, he/she could've just uses the shuttle as a space bus to go from one to the other.
..it doesn't blow like the last attempt to film it, which ran out of money and cut out the last two books to 15 seconds of commentary!
I know its coming out in 3 films, but have they actually filmed footage for all three ?
It has to be said that although support for other architectures is in existence, Linux is primarily an x86 OS. However I think if you asked Sun nicely it might be possible to get financial/hardware/web support for the Linux port and producing binary apps to run on Linux for Sparc. Why?, I hear you ask, surely Sun will be pushing Solaris and don't want this upstart anywhere near their nice boxes if they can possibly help it. IMO, there's a lot of reasons why Sun and other companies (HP??) should do this, and that is that by funding development of a Linux port for their particular processor, mere compilation opens their machines to a huge list of software, and people will buy boxes based on performance and stability, instead of buying a box 'cos it runs Windows. Linux seems to be the only game in town for kicking MS and Intel off the top of the PC market.
..that would give me a reason to spend $1000 on this machine instead of a similarly costed PC....
Yes, Frank A. Stephensons papers/webpages on DeCSS were read extremely avidly by me. They were a great help to advancing my state of knowledge.
It didn't teach me encryption, I'm familiar with is principles from doing Condition Access Teletext and other stuff, but it advanced my state of knowledge, which is all that is required.