Interesting....
As a phone tech, perhaps you can help me out here. I'm on the 'edge' of service being *almost* too far from the CO to get service. Anyway, I got a cisco 675 from em and then DMT came out. As I'm sure you're aware the 675 uses CAP. I'd like to switch, and qwest is pushing for a switch over to DMT, but it seems I would be left with the cost of a 678, and be out of connectivity for two weeks or so while they go through their beurocratic process of deleting it in their system then re-adding it all for something that requires basically plugging me into a different DSLAM (*sigh*).
Are there any tricks to get them to pay for the 678? To get switched over to DMT without a (prolly more than) two week no-DSL period? To get them to lift my upstream cap of 272?:)
Is nothing to be bragging about. All it is is low-bitrate mp3 with a horrible (something like 10kHZ) lowpass. The decoder then tries to *guess* at the high frequencies.
It's not much of a surprise that it really doesn't sound that good.
The photon's energy is given to the electron, "pushing" it up to a higher orbital.
It is currently unknown if light is a wave or a particle, but in either case, it has energy and no mass. This energy is not converted into mass, just given to the electron, which "destroys" the photon. I quote "destroys" because a photon is really just a packet of energy. If you remove the energy from it, there's nothing left.
All that would have to be done is to send a simple MD5 or SHA1 of the data, cryptographically signed by the trusted source. This way it's obvious if something has gone wrong because the checksum doesn't match.
Here's another piece of advice for you.
If your heat gun blows the circuit powering 10+ computers and you decide to switch to chipping it off by pounding a flathead screwdriver into the ice using an RJ45 crimping tool as a hammer, be careful not to puncture the coils and spew freon everywhere.
Actually, I'm in Fort Collins now, and posting from my nice stable DSL line:P
But my many friends with ATT@Home have gone down. Not just partially down- No level-2 link to the cable modem. Where are you, specifically, that you got it working?
Also, I seem to have gotten the "phone call" myself, even though I'm not a cable modem subscriber at all...how very competant of them...
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA30 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Warning: OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at least 1 open and 1 closed TCP port
Interesting ports on wdcsun1.usdoj.gov (149.101.1.100):
(The 1547 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered)
Port State Service
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
Remote operating system guess: Solaris 2.6 - 2.7 with tcp_strong_iss=2
Uptime 296.738 days (since Wed Jan 24 02:33:53 2001)
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 172 seconds
A Sun system wuth an uptime of almost 300 days...perhaps the DOJ deserves more credit than we give them...
On a sidenote, I wasn't able to get an http responce from it, sadly.
I've never used the hipzip, so I couldn't tell you. sorry. Personally, I'd wait on the 400-CD re-ripping process until vorbis has become the best codec it can be- probably 1.0 or later. Although vorbis certainly beats mp3 now, I would certainly hate to have such a huge collection encoded just to see a new version that does even better.
The HipZip has a beta firmware out that supports it, and they've promised support when 1.0 is released.
Also, i would suggest you don't re-encode mp3 to vorbis, you'll only lose more quality, and especially so because oggenc will be working hard to match the mp3 artifacts. Encode all your rips into vorbis by all means, but mp3s are generally better left alone.
Personally, I can't tell the difference between vorbis (CVS) at 128 and CDDA. I've talked to many people that feel the same way. I think you're being a little presumptuous about the 128 bitrate, and it's probably because of all the crappy (*cough*Xing*cough*) encoders out there. Vorbis has a higher quality:bitrate ratio, therefore the same quality can be acheived with a smaller size.
Perhaps you have good ears, though, and were able to tell the difference in many of the samples. Have you taken the tests yet?
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If you're losing your job anyway, care to edit my record for me and hike up that pesky bandwidth cap? :)
Is there any chance you could get screwed by telling us this here on slashdot? Your @qwest.net email is right there for all to see
Interesting....
:)
As a phone tech, perhaps you can help me out here. I'm on the 'edge' of service being *almost* too far from the CO to get service. Anyway, I got a cisco 675 from em and then DMT came out. As I'm sure you're aware the 675 uses CAP. I'd like to switch, and qwest is pushing for a switch over to DMT, but it seems I would be left with the cost of a 678, and be out of connectivity for two weeks or so while they go through their beurocratic process of deleting it in their system then re-adding it all for something that requires basically plugging me into a different DSLAM (*sigh*).
Are there any tricks to get them to pay for the 678? To get switched over to DMT without a (prolly more than) two week no-DSL period? To get them to lift my upstream cap of 272?
Much thanks
Same day? hardly. This is about a year and a half old. Not to mention slashdot already posted it a year ago.
Is nothing to be bragging about. All it is is low-bitrate mp3 with a horrible (something like 10kHZ) lowpass. The decoder then tries to *guess* at the high frequencies.
It's not much of a surprise that it really doesn't sound that good.
I'll wait for a good player with vorbis support.
Now a practical way to do this?
Almost all the power we use today comes from mass being converted into energy. Coal, oil, nuclear.
Actually I suppose solar power would count too because the sun is doing the conversion in a bigass nuclear reaction.
And wind/hydro are all powered by the sun...
Interesting idea, but I believe it may be prevented by light having zero mass.
OTOH, black holes of significant size are supposed to be able to attract light with their gravitational pull.
Any astronemers here care to explain how gravity can pull something that has no mass?
The photon's energy is given to the electron, "pushing" it up to a higher orbital.
It is currently unknown if light is a wave or a particle, but in either case, it has energy and no mass. This energy is not converted into mass, just given to the electron, which "destroys" the photon. I quote "destroys" because a photon is really just a packet of energy. If you remove the energy from it, there's nothing left.
but I assume this is going to be a pay service. Shell out $X per minute of connectivity, or such.
:)
What's to stop someone from plugging in a laptop, paying for the service, then giving the rest of the plane NAT'ed access via 802.11?
Sorry, us techies just like to spend our time thinking of ways around things like that
150.208.72.11 has it right here!
I don't see it from kernel.org. not even the link on rml's site. Anyone know where it's up yet?
it runs an SMTP server and has spaces in the file name. This is suppoosed to make it "clever"? None of this is original.
to factor 15 as it does the product of two 128 bit primes, what's stopping this computer from breaking current asymmetric crypto right now?
All that would have to be done is to send a simple MD5 or SHA1 of the data, cryptographically signed by the trusted source. This way it's obvious if something has gone wrong because the checksum doesn't match.
Here's another piece of advice for you.
;)
If your heat gun blows the circuit powering 10+ computers and you decide to switch to chipping it off by pounding a flathead screwdriver into the ice using an RJ45 crimping tool as a hammer, be careful not to puncture the coils and spew freon everywhere.
Yes, also from experience
Actually, I'm in Fort Collins now, and posting from my nice stable DSL line :P
But my many friends with ATT@Home have gone down. Not just partially down- No level-2 link to the cable modem. Where are you, specifically, that you got it working?
Also, I seem to have gotten the "phone call" myself, even though I'm not a cable modem subscriber at all...how very competant of them...
Now look at THIS picture, and ask yourself the same question.
fooling the xbox's into thinking their on a LAN.
are just so amazingly complicated. Good thing after getting out of elemtary school you never have to think about any of that again.
If it's at 2am, I believe that would be called "Tomorrow morning".
lets find out.
% host -t MX usdoj.gov
usdoj.gov MX 15 wdcsun1.usdoj.gov
usdoj.gov MX 20 wdcsun2.usdoj.gov
% nmap -O -sS wdcsun1.usdoj.gov
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA30 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Warning: OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at least 1 open and 1 closed TCP port
Interesting ports on wdcsun1.usdoj.gov (149.101.1.100):
(The 1547 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered)
Port State Service
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
Remote operating system guess: Solaris 2.6 - 2.7 with tcp_strong_iss=2
Uptime 296.738 days (since Wed Jan 24 02:33:53 2001)
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 172 seconds
A Sun system wuth an uptime of almost 300 days...perhaps the DOJ deserves more credit than we give them...
On a sidenote, I wasn't able to get an http responce from it, sadly.
I've never used the hipzip, so I couldn't tell you. sorry. Personally, I'd wait on the 400-CD re-ripping process until vorbis has become the best codec it can be- probably 1.0 or later. Although vorbis certainly beats mp3 now, I would certainly hate to have such a huge collection encoded just to see a new version that does even better.
I personally can't tell vorbis (CVS!) 128 clips from CDDA, and have talked to many that agree. Have you tried it yet?
The HipZip has a beta firmware out that supports it, and they've promised support when 1.0 is released.
Also, i would suggest you don't re-encode mp3 to vorbis, you'll only lose more quality, and especially so because oggenc will be working hard to match the mp3 artifacts. Encode all your rips into vorbis by all means, but mp3s are generally better left alone.
Perhaps some kind of virtual machine, so there's only one process with one user on the real system. Do you know of any such software for freebsd?
Personally, I can't tell the difference between vorbis (CVS) at 128 and CDDA. I've talked to many people that feel the same way. I think you're being a little presumptuous about the 128 bitrate, and it's probably because of all the crappy (*cough*Xing*cough*) encoders out there. Vorbis has a higher quality:bitrate ratio, therefore the same quality can be acheived with a smaller size.
Perhaps you have good ears, though, and were able to tell the difference in many of the samples. Have you taken the tests yet?