You can get a secret ReplayTV information screen by entering:
411 Zones
on your remote. The most interesting thing is the list of recognized drives at the bottom of the screen. Of course, it lists the Quantum drive as disk 1, but disks 2 through 4 aren't there. It seems the software is completely ready to handle upto 3 more drives.
This makes me wonder if there's another secret menu that will make it reformat secondary drives?
I took AP Computer Science in 1986, and it was mostly Pascal programming. I heard that they changed languages at least once since then, and they've probably revised other parts of the curriculum significantly.
And of course, what's so boring about that curriculum?
It's important to note that despite what has been written in some of the press, SCO owns the rights to some of the original Unix code, but doesn not own the rights to the trademark.
If you want a Unix sourcecode license, SCO sold them.
If you want to use the Unix name, you have to talk to The Open Group.
Still, it would be nice if they would GPL portions of the Unix sourcecode and get them integrated into Linux so that the press would stop calling Linux a Unix-LIKE OS.
You don't need to get the official Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDF files--the latest verisons of Ghostscript understand PDF, so you can just use Ghostview. (And if your printer driver is based on ghostscript, you can send PDF files directly to your printer!)
Aparently Ottawa is not only the capital of Canada, but the Linux capital of Canada. In other words, Ottawa has the highest concentration of Linux-related jobs in Canada.
Also, being in Canada, it's easier for people working on projects like FreeS/WAN to get together without fear of contaminating their product with US export restrictions on cryptography (even if they have been relaxed).
I was there, and I thought it was the best Linux technical conference I've been to. Not that I've been to too many Linux-specific conferences, but it was certainly a great conference. Not like the conference track at Linux World Expo, which was mostly high-level talks, not detailed by-the-developer talks.
Almost every major Linux kernel developer was there, except for Linus, himself.
Sure, registration was a mess--this wasn't run by an experienced conference-running company--but it all worked out. 500 or so people, and all of the interesting.
Oh, and thanks for the ZeroKnowledge shirt, Emmett! (He gave me his when I lost a rock-paper-sizors tie-breaker.)
With almost all distributions (including Red Hat), most drivers are built as modules. Because you often need those drivers at boot time, Red Hat puts the modules you need into a ram disk image that gets used before your root partition is mounted. Personally, I like to rebuild my kernel with all critical drivers built in so as to avoid this ram disk.
So how do you find out what drivers you need?
Well, to start, use the command `lsmod` to see which modules are loaded. That should tell you which network driver you need to build.
I've been hearing about how much better wavelet compression is for a long time (5 to 10 years, perhaps). The empansis has often been on sound, mainly because it's simpler to work with than video. However, you don't see people using wavelet-based audio formats in wide use. Why not?
I was under the impression that most wavelet compression algorithms are patented. Of course, this is true of various MPEG formats (includeing MP3), and that hasn't slowed them down.
With normal telemarketing calls, US law says that I can tell them to put me on their do-not-call list, and they have to pay a $500 penalty if they then do call me (assuming I'm willing to go to the hassle of taking them to small claims court).
With this, they hang up before I can ask to be put on that list. Does the law that requires them to honor such requests allow this?
And what about bans on computer calling? Or do they have a real human talk to the answering machine (talk about a boring job)?
So, is the fingerprint really not captured? I would guess the mouse is a dumb scanner that send the entire fingerprint to the computer, and it's simply their software running on the computer that generates the 500-byte "minutia file" from it. The web page isn't precise on the matter.
Think about it. Why embed a processor to do that work when they could use the one already installed on the other side of the port?
So they're only recording a signature derived from the fingerprint (a one-way hash or such)? That doesn't matter. If the same system is used elsewhere, then the same signature can be used in a replay attack. The signature can be used to trick another system into thinking it just read a fingerprint, when instead, it is just the pre-recorded signature being sent to it.
You can also compare against other fingerprints by generating their signatures.
Imagine walking up to a public terminal with such a mouse. You do some web surfing or check your email. Now the administrator of that system has your fingerprint on file.
When a crime is commited in the area, the FBI subpoenas the fingerprint database to look for the crimanal. Might as well just have a national database of fingerprints of non-criminals.
Or perhaps the administrator of that system simply decides to use your fingerprint to act as you, messing around with your finances.
No, fingerprint scanners should be separate devices that are intentionally activated by the user.
Uhm, you don't seem to understand the difference between fuel cells and batteries.
With batteries, you use the electric grid to recharge. In that case, the pollution is based on whatever power plant is providing the electricity.
With fuel cells, your car uses a chemical reaction to convert fuel (hydrogen, gasoline, or a number of other possibilites) into electricity. Hence, no recharging, just refuling. That means no impact on the power grid.
Yes, natural gas prices have doubled in the past year or so, but so have oil prices.
The difference is that natural gas is produced in North America, and there is tons of excess reserves. So when prices shoot up due to increased demand, they drill more wells, and the prices drop back down.
I don't know about the efficiency of natural gas for cars, but for home heating, nothing beats it. (Well, solar is better, but the installation cost is prohibitive.)
Uhm, I don't know where you're coming from, but the link works just fine. That's the IMDB page for that movie. You click on the plot summary link for, well, a plot summary. It should be rather obvious how it relates.
Oh, and I wouldn't call a movie that grossed under $13 million in it's USA theatrical release a part of "mass-market culture." It's mildly obscure; that's why I provided a link.
Sounds like Gattaca is getting another step closer as it walks from science fiction to reality.
I could see this used in airports to detect smugglers. They would market it as an artificial dog, comparing the machine to a trained drug- or explosives-sniffing dog.
What Junkbuster does do is provide a sample list of advertising sites. This can easily be converted for use as an ad-blocking/etc/hosts file. (Then you just set up a web server that sends back a 1x1 transparent png for any request--or better yet redirects you to a 1x1 transparent png so as not to pollute your cache.)
Now what we need is a nice package that installs such a web server (possibly a stripped-down Apache) and updates the/etc/hosts for you. Then if we could get distributions to start installing it by default...
I installed junkbuster this week, and I found that it really slowed down web page loading. I turned it off after a short time--I just couldn't stand waiting twice as long for pages to load.
Perhaps people with modem connections won't notice the extra delay.
I also didn't like how pages that had load errors came up with junkbuster-generated pages instead of the same info they normally would come up with.
I was on a train from Boston to New York (the new Amtrak Acela service), and for half the trip, the person in the seat behind me was chatting on her cell phone. That was not fun. At least at $3/minute, most people will make the airphone calls short.
I've heard that some commuter trains now have phone-free cars. Will airplanes need separate cell phone sections? Or perhaps just a noisy section (no cell phones or babies outside that section).
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You can get a secret ReplayTV information screen by entering:
411 Zones
on your remote. The most interesting thing is the list of recognized drives at the bottom of the screen. Of course, it lists the Quantum drive as disk 1, but disks 2 through 4 aren't there. It seems the software is completely ready to handle upto 3 more drives.
This makes me wonder if there's another secret menu that will make it reformat secondary drives?
So what is the AP Curriculum these days?
I took AP Computer Science in 1986, and it was mostly Pascal programming. I heard that they changed languages at least once since then, and they've probably revised other parts of the curriculum significantly.
And of course, what's so boring about that curriculum?
It's important to note that despite what has been written in some of the press, SCO owns the rights to some of the original Unix code, but doesn not own the rights to the trademark.
If you want a Unix sourcecode license, SCO sold them.
If you want to use the Unix name, you have to talk to The Open Group.
Still, it would be nice if they would GPL portions of the Unix sourcecode and get them integrated into Linux so that the press would stop calling Linux a Unix-LIKE OS.
You don't need to get the official Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDF files--the latest verisons of Ghostscript understand PDF, so you can just use Ghostview. (And if your printer driver is based on ghostscript, you can send PDF files directly to your printer!)
Actually, some of the waitresses at the Hard Rock Cafe fit that description.
I was drooling over the shrimp. Really.
Aparently Ottawa is not only the capital of Canada, but the Linux capital of Canada. In other words, Ottawa has the highest concentration of Linux-related jobs in Canada.
Also, being in Canada, it's easier for people working on projects like FreeS/WAN to get together without fear of contaminating their product with US export restrictions on cryptography (even if they have been relaxed).
I was there, and I thought it was the best Linux technical conference I've been to. Not that I've been to too many Linux-specific conferences, but it was certainly a great conference. Not like the conference track at Linux World Expo, which was mostly high-level talks, not detailed by-the-developer talks.
Almost every major Linux kernel developer was there, except for Linus, himself.
Sure, registration was a mess--this wasn't run by an experienced conference-running company--but it all worked out. 500 or so people, and all of the interesting.
Oh, and thanks for the ZeroKnowledge shirt, Emmett! (He gave me his when I lost a rock-paper-sizors tie-breaker.)
The 905B is a 59x. (Or at least it is the same driver.)
/proc/pci will tell you which cards you are using.
There's a config option for "3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) 'Vortex/Boomerang' support" that you should look at.
Generally, `lsmod` will tell you which driver is being used, while
With almost all distributions (including Red Hat), most drivers are built as modules. Because you often need those drivers at boot time, Red Hat puts the modules you need into a ram disk image that gets used before your root partition is mounted. Personally, I like to rebuild my kernel with all critical drivers built in so as to avoid this ram disk.
So how do you find out what drivers you need?
Well, to start, use the command `lsmod` to see which modules are loaded. That should tell you which network driver you need to build.
I was talking to someone who hires support staff, and he actually considers such certifications on a resume to be black marks.
So in some cases, those certifications hurt your chances of getting a job.
I've been hearing about how much better wavelet compression is for a long time (5 to 10 years, perhaps). The empansis has often been on sound, mainly because it's simpler to work with than video. However, you don't see people using wavelet-based audio formats in wide use. Why not?
I was under the impression that most wavelet compression algorithms are patented. Of course, this is true of various MPEG formats (includeing MP3), and that hasn't slowed them down.
What's the patent issue in this case?
With normal telemarketing calls, US law says that I can tell them to put me on their do-not-call list, and they have to pay a $500 penalty if they then do call me (assuming I'm willing to go to the hassle of taking them to small claims court).
With this, they hang up before I can ask to be put on that list. Does the law that requires them to honor such requests allow this?
And what about bans on computer calling? Or do they have a real human talk to the answering machine (talk about a boring job)?
So, is the fingerprint really not captured? I would guess the mouse is a dumb scanner that send the entire fingerprint to the computer, and it's simply their software running on the computer that generates the 500-byte "minutia file" from it. The web page isn't precise on the matter.
Think about it. Why embed a processor to do that work when they could use the one already installed on the other side of the port?
So they're only recording a signature derived from the fingerprint (a one-way hash or such)? That doesn't matter. If the same system is used elsewhere, then the same signature can be used in a replay attack. The signature can be used to trick another system into thinking it just read a fingerprint, when instead, it is just the pre-recorded signature being sent to it.
You can also compare against other fingerprints by generating their signatures.
Imagine walking up to a public terminal with such a mouse. You do some web surfing or check your email. Now the administrator of that system has your fingerprint on file.
When a crime is commited in the area, the FBI subpoenas the fingerprint database to look for the crimanal. Might as well just have a national database of fingerprints of non-criminals.
Or perhaps the administrator of that system simply decides to use your fingerprint to act as you, messing around with your finances.
No, fingerprint scanners should be separate devices that are intentionally activated by the user.
Uhm, you don't seem to understand the difference between fuel cells and batteries.
With batteries, you use the electric grid to recharge. In that case, the pollution is based on whatever power plant is providing the electricity.
With fuel cells, your car uses a chemical reaction to convert fuel (hydrogen, gasoline, or a number of other possibilites) into electricity. Hence, no recharging, just refuling. That means no impact on the power grid.
Yes, natural gas prices have doubled in the past year or so, but so have oil prices.
The difference is that natural gas is produced in North America, and there is tons of excess reserves. So when prices shoot up due to increased demand, they drill more wells, and the prices drop back down.
I don't know about the efficiency of natural gas for cars, but for home heating, nothing beats it. (Well, solar is better, but the installation cost is prohibitive.)
I thought MP3s were already advertisements for the CDs and artists that they originated from. Sure, they're a replacement for some people.
Still the idea of putting advertisements in advertisements has some sort of sick irony.
Uhm, I don't know where you're coming from, but the link works just fine. That's the IMDB page for that movie. You click on the plot summary link for, well, a plot summary. It should be rather obvious how it relates.
Oh, and I wouldn't call a movie that grossed under $13 million in it's USA theatrical release a part of "mass-market culture." It's mildly obscure; that's why I provided a link.
I could see this used in airports to detect smugglers. They would market it as an artificial dog, comparing the machine to a trained drug- or explosives-sniffing dog.
What Junkbuster does do is provide a sample list of advertising sites. This can easily be converted for use as an ad-blocking /etc/hosts file. (Then you just set up a web server that sends back a 1x1 transparent png for any request--or better yet redirects you to a 1x1 transparent png so as not to pollute your cache.)
/etc/hosts for you. Then if we could get distributions to start installing it by default...
Now what we need is a nice package that installs such a web server (possibly a stripped-down Apache) and updates the
I installed junkbuster this week, and I found that it really slowed down web page loading. I turned it off after a short time--I just couldn't stand waiting twice as long for pages to load.
Perhaps people with modem connections won't notice the extra delay.
I also didn't like how pages that had load errors came up with junkbuster-generated pages instead of the same info they normally would come up with.
With increasing RAM prices due to the Rambus patents, this is a very well-timed announcement.
What about the social aspects of cell phones?
I was on a train from Boston to New York (the new Amtrak Acela service), and for half the trip, the person in the seat behind me was chatting on her cell phone. That was not fun. At least at $3/minute, most people will make the airphone calls short.
I've heard that some commuter trains now have phone-free cars. Will airplanes need separate cell phone sections? Or perhaps just a noisy section (no cell phones or babies outside that section).