I'm not really familiar with NetHack, but I *might* be able to provide a fast freebsd server on a multiple reduntant DS3 network, except giving local accounts is not an option, for security. Any exceptions?
I've recently experimented with hdparm -S as a way to spin down hard disks after they haven't been used for a given period of time. For certain really noisy disks, this is really helpful. However- the way linux works, syslog is constantly writing to the disk, and thus keeping it from spinning down (or spinning it back up if it was already sleeping). Does anyone know of a way around this?
freeswan (linux-based IPsec) has experimental support for opportunistic encryption - every packet is encryped automatically when the other side of the link supports it, even if you don't know who you're talking to. This kind of thing would basically put near-end-to-end crypto on every packet out there if everyone used it.
I'm willing to bet it was greed - the closed clients also display advertisements and such. If the protocol was truely open (it never was, it had to be reverse engineered), people would all use clients that didn't make them register to be advertised to. The new upgrade (I believe) uses crypto as well, so breaking that will take a while, and even after that, they might just change the protocol again. We need a self organizing network like this that can be Open and Secure, and some greedy company can't change its protocol to break someone else.
A cooling fan? But you're taking Hydrogen and Oxygen and putting them together to get water and heat. the heat is your output energy - why dissapate it away with a cooling fan?
What it's doing is effectively combining the hydrogen you give it with the oxygen in the air to produce water and heat. If you want to break the water back into Hydrogen and Oxygen, you'll need more electricity than can be produced (experimentally) with the heat. It's the law of conservation of Mass/Energy.
Cracking water would take more energy than you're getting from the heat in the first place. Energy/Mass cannot be created nor destroyed - you can't get something for nothing.
does one get hydrogen? Hydrogen atoms can be removed from Oxygen atoms in water via electrolytic(sp?) cells, correct? Is this practicle? If one wanted a hydrogen-powered house, where would he get the hydrogen? I haven't seen it available around my city like gas is from filling stations...
Very interesting. I'm not familiar with adequacy.org, so I don't know if this is intended to be a joke or troll, but I guess I'll bite.
The "15 year olds" were quite right in this case. The instructions on that page are in most cases unintelligent, and in a few just plain wrong. Go build yourself a system using those components, and you'll find yourself having a bit of trouble trying to fit your Pentium 4 into your AMD motherboard. So, you go buy a *real* p4 motherboard, and find the ram this page told you to buy (pc133) doesn't work with it. Furthermore, the power supply (they tell you to get the cheapest generic brand for $15 including the case) will almost certainly not have the 12V plug needed for a p4 system.
Enough with the wrong, lets get back to the unintelligent....the site recommends
*A WinModem
*In almost every case, the chepest components you can find (claims all motherboards are identical)
*Windows ME (and they *intist* you purchase your own copy...hmmmm)
What kind of crack are you on? Where can I get some?
Yes, it's true, the current version of the Vorbis encoder does not use the correllation between channels. However, with the soon (Aug 9th hopefully!) to be realeased 1.0 encoder (note, this is different than the 1.0 decoder, which is already out), Vorbis will use channel coupling. This is the Ogg equiv. to mp3's 'joint stereo'. However, I believe you'll find the sound just as great, if not more so, than the current beta 4.
Those of you that have posted here talking about quality:size ratio of Vorbis vs MP3, I've done my own personal tests, and I find the current version (beta 4) to be transparent (can't tell from CDDA) at 128 kb/sec. Although the average napster user encodes all his mp3s at 128, this is quite obviously not transparent. With the advances of LAME's great VBR, I find 160 avg to be transparent in the mp3 realm. Vorbis is better! Not only that, but with encoder 1.0, I should be able to bring that bitrate down to 96, and for certain music, possibly less if we're lucky. Think about that, 96 kb/s transparent stereo audio. Absolutely amazing.
MP3Pro claims to be transparent at 64 kb/s, but let's keep in mind what they're doing - the encoder first does a lowpass at 10khz, and the decoder guesses to try to create those frequencies again.
WMA also makes the 64 kb/s claim, but before believing this, I strongly suggest you go listen to it. Perform your *own* blind listening tests, and see if you can tell. Remember, the industry has always claimed mp3 at 128 was transparent, and but any experienced user knows better.
If I had a 700+ CD collection, I would certainly choose Vorbis over any of its rivals, even if my choice was based purely on quality. Its patent free nature is a bonus:) Also, I would certainly wait for encoder 1.0 before encoding all 700 CDS. It adds the finishing quality touches.
Oh yes, and is there any chance I could get access to some of those files?:)
I use the patch from kerneli.org, and yes, I applied a patch meant for 2.4.3 to 2.4.5, it works great. I have a loopback aes-encrypted filesystem used to store important things, but after patching 2.4.6, compiling, and booting, I can't mount the encrypted filesystem! It tells me the cipher doesn't exist in the kernel, even after I manually insert the module.
Anyone from kerneli.org here? answer me this: why arn't you as obsessed with the latest releases as I am? 2.4.3 is obsolete!;)
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regex-compatible page searching...that would rock! probably would need to leave it off by default, for users that would get confused (regex, wtf is that?), but I'd love to be able to search pages with some power.
No, that was one grammar mistake- "then" should have been "than". the "I" is correct, regardless of how much more natural it feels to say "me". The trick to remember is the implied verb. Here's what I mean:
Maybe you'll have better luck than I (had)
see - that's correct. If you use "me", you change what the implied verb is:
Maybe you'll have better luck than (you'll have) me.
Not only is this not what he intended to say, it also doesn't make any sense. This is a common mistake. Just remember, when you say something like "There's no way you want to have hot steamy sex with Natalie Portman more than me", you're actually saying..."more than (you'd like to have hot steamy sex with) me".
I'm the admin of a hosting provider, and upon starting up, attempted to colocate with VIIS (note, their site has been down for the past few months, though I don't know why. I hope they died!). The experience was a horrible one. They at one point actually claimed there was a DoS _coming_ from our server, provided no evidence backing this up, and claimed that even telling us the names of the other "parties" involved would be a "disservice to the internet community". I quote "parties" because I believe they faked the entire thing, after changing their minds about wanting our business. Although I believe they've gone under, I've been unable to confirm it, so if you have the opportunity, please choose against them.
Anyway, things are much better now, and if you're still looking for a better provider, please consider Stratius (sorry about the blatent advertisement). All the admins are as much of security freaks as you are;)
With so many options out there for authentication and encryption, it seems that its just getting harder to send someone a message they'll be able to verify easily. I think we need to accept some standard that is (at least) interoperable with others.
Sorry if you think I'm being picky, but arn't they called ethernet adaptors? It seems that whoever was in charge of marketing decided to arbitrarily change the label to something that more average users would asociate with broadband internet connections. Just because most broadband connections currently use ethernet doesn't mean you can call a NIC a broadband card. -end rant-
"their only source of revenue"? No, it isn't. They charge for each item put up for bid. A company that makes money on spam alone wouldn't do as well as ebay...I hope...
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I'm not really familiar with NetHack, but I *might* be able to provide a fast freebsd server on a multiple reduntant DS3 network, except giving local accounts is not an option, for security. Any exceptions?
I've recently experimented with hdparm -S as a way to spin down hard disks after they haven't been used for a given period of time. For certain really noisy disks, this is really helpful. However- the way linux works, syslog is constantly writing to the disk, and thus keeping it from spinning down (or spinning it back up if it was already sleeping). Does anyone know of a way around this?
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[Slashdot.org] Posted by on Monday October 22, @04:50PM
from the it's-been-awhile dept.
So, uhh, who posted that exactly?
freeswan (linux-based IPsec) has experimental support for opportunistic encryption - every packet is encryped automatically when the other side of the link supports it, even if you don't know who you're talking to. This kind of thing would basically put near-end-to-end crypto on every packet out there if everyone used it.
Well if you're that obsessed with perfect quality, at LEAST go with flac to save a little space.
Iomega has promised a firmware update for their HipZip supporting Vorbis as soon as 1.0 is released.
And yes, the quality:bitrate ratio in ogg kicks mp3's ass.
they've converted hundreds of miles of copper to fiber, and are considering cable tv over fiber next year.And nearly EVERY customer has DSL access.
DSL doesn't work if there's any fiber in your link to the phone company, it has to be copper the whole way.
I'm willing to bet it was greed - the closed clients also display advertisements and such. If the protocol was truely open (it never was, it had to be reverse engineered), people would all use clients that didn't make them register to be advertised to. The new upgrade (I believe) uses crypto as well, so breaking that will take a while, and even after that, they might just change the protocol again. We need a self organizing network like this that can be Open and Secure, and some greedy company can't change its protocol to break someone else.
A cooling fan? But you're taking Hydrogen and Oxygen and putting them together to get water and heat. the heat is your output energy - why dissapate it away with a cooling fan?
What it's doing is effectively combining the hydrogen you give it with the oxygen in the air to produce water and heat. If you want to break the water back into Hydrogen and Oxygen, you'll need more electricity than can be produced (experimentally) with the heat. It's the law of conservation of Mass/Energy.
Cracking water would take more energy than you're getting from the heat in the first place. Energy/Mass cannot be created nor destroyed - you can't get something for nothing.
does one get hydrogen? Hydrogen atoms can be removed from Oxygen atoms in water via electrolytic(sp?) cells, correct? Is this practicle? If one wanted a hydrogen-powered house, where would he get the hydrogen? I haven't seen it available around my city like gas is from filling stations...
Very interesting. I'm not familiar with adequacy.org, so I don't know if this is intended to be a joke or troll, but I guess I'll bite.
The "15 year olds" were quite right in this case. The instructions on that page are in most cases unintelligent, and in a few just plain wrong. Go build yourself a system using those components, and you'll find yourself having a bit of trouble trying to fit your Pentium 4 into your AMD motherboard. So, you go buy a *real* p4 motherboard, and find the ram this page told you to buy (pc133) doesn't work with it. Furthermore, the power supply (they tell you to get the cheapest generic brand for $15 including the case) will almost certainly not have the 12V plug needed for a p4 system.
Enough with the wrong, lets get back to the unintelligent....the site recommends
*A WinModem
*In almost every case, the chepest components you can find (claims all motherboards are identical)
*Windows ME (and they *intist* you purchase your own copy...hmmmm)
What kind of crack are you on? Where can I get some?
Yes, it's true, the current version of the Vorbis encoder does not use the correllation between channels. However, with the soon (Aug 9th hopefully!) to be realeased 1.0 encoder (note, this is different than the 1.0 decoder, which is already out), Vorbis will use channel coupling. This is the Ogg equiv. to mp3's 'joint stereo'. However, I believe you'll find the sound just as great, if not more so, than the current beta 4.
:) Also, I would certainly wait for encoder 1.0 before encoding all 700 CDS. It adds the finishing quality touches.
:)
Those of you that have posted here talking about quality:size ratio of Vorbis vs MP3, I've done my own personal tests, and I find the current version (beta 4) to be transparent (can't tell from CDDA) at 128 kb/sec. Although the average napster user encodes all his mp3s at 128, this is quite obviously not transparent. With the advances of LAME's great VBR, I find 160 avg to be transparent in the mp3 realm. Vorbis is better! Not only that, but with encoder 1.0, I should be able to bring that bitrate down to 96, and for certain music, possibly less if we're lucky. Think about that, 96 kb/s transparent stereo audio. Absolutely amazing.
MP3Pro claims to be transparent at 64 kb/s, but let's keep in mind what they're doing - the encoder first does a lowpass at 10khz, and the decoder guesses to try to create those frequencies again.
WMA also makes the 64 kb/s claim, but before believing this, I strongly suggest you go listen to it. Perform your *own* blind listening tests, and see if you can tell. Remember, the industry has always claimed mp3 at 128 was transparent, and but any experienced user knows better.
If I had a 700+ CD collection, I would certainly choose Vorbis over any of its rivals, even if my choice was based purely on quality. Its patent free nature is a bonus
Oh yes, and is there any chance I could get access to some of those files?
Agreed! I will start using Mozilla for my mail when at my X console the *instant* it has gpg support.
:)
Oh yeah, also, regex page searches in search->find, now that would kick ass
but how can you trust that it hasn't been changed when it appears somewhere else?
Asymmetric cryptography?
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Has anyone else had this problem?
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I use the patch from kerneli.org, and yes, I applied a patch meant for 2.4.3 to 2.4.5, it works great. I have a loopback aes-encrypted filesystem used to store important things, but after patching 2.4.6, compiling, and booting, I can't mount the encrypted filesystem! It tells me the cipher doesn't exist in the kernel, even after I manually insert the module.
Anyone from kerneli.org here? answer me this: why arn't you as obsessed with the latest releases as I am? 2.4.3 is obsolete!
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regex-compatible page searching...that would rock! probably would need to leave it off by default, for users that would get confused (regex, wtf is that?), but I'd love to be able to search pages with some power.
;)
0.9.1 kicks ass anyway
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No, that was one grammar mistake- "then" should have been "than". the "I" is correct, regardless of how much more natural it feels to say "me". The trick to remember is the implied verb. Here's what I mean:
..."more than (you'd like to have hot steamy sex with) me".
Maybe you'll have better luck than I (had)
see - that's correct. If you use "me", you change what the implied verb is:
Maybe you'll have better luck than (you'll have) me.
Not only is this not what he intended to say, it also doesn't make any sense. This is a common mistake. Just remember, when you say something like "There's no way you want to have hot steamy sex with Natalie Portman more than me", you're actually saying
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Really? my FreeBSD server has been up 227 days, 18:18 right now.
:(
Unfortunatly, has to be reboot soon for a move to a new data room
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I'm the admin of a hosting provider, and upon starting up, attempted to colocate with VIIS (note, their site has been down for the past few months, though I don't know why. I hope they died!). The experience was a horrible one. They at one point actually claimed there was a DoS _coming_ from our server, provided no evidence backing this up, and claimed that even telling us the names of the other "parties" involved would be a "disservice to the internet community". I quote "parties" because I believe they faked the entire thing, after changing their minds about wanting our business. Although I believe they've gone under, I've been unable to confirm it, so if you have the opportunity, please choose against them.
;)
Anyway, things are much better now, and if you're still looking for a better provider, please consider Stratius (sorry about the blatent advertisement). All the admins are as much of security freaks as you are
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the needless use of cat award!
/etc/inetd.conf | grep tel
/etc/inetd.conf | grep tel
/usr/sbin/tcpdin.telnetd
bash# cat
cat
telnetstream tcp nowait root
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With so many options out there for authentication and encryption, it seems that its just getting harder to send someone a message they'll be able to verify easily. I think we need to accept some standard that is (at least) interoperable with others.
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Sorry if you think I'm being picky, but arn't they called ethernet adaptors? It seems that whoever was in charge of marketing decided to arbitrarily change the label to something that more average users would asociate with broadband internet connections. Just because most broadband connections currently use ethernet doesn't mean you can call a NIC a broadband card. -end rant-
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"their only source of revenue"? No, it isn't. They charge for each item put up for bid. A company that makes money on spam alone wouldn't do as well as ebay...I hope...
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