There was a big leap between VHS and DVD that really added to the migration and the adoption of DVD by the consumer.
My guess is that HD-DVD and Blu-ray will go the way of Minidisc. They don't add anything remotely interresting for the average consumer. The average consumer is still buying Full-Screen edition of the movies. They won't put any money on those new formats any time soon.
Unless they pull the plug on the DVD format. Which won't happen anytime soon.
...these are not the Star Wars we're looking for...
I want my darn Original Trilogy I saw when I was a kid. Not those butchered movies.
I've never seen so much marketdroid...
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...use so much exclamated speech selling an obviously lowpar computer:
[...] runs on a blazing fast Intel Celeron 2.0GHz CPU that carries with it 256MB of lightning-quick DDR main memory - upgradeable to a mind-boggling 2GB - a 40GB Ultra ATA 100 hard drive and so many extras that we could fill volumes of literature describing them [...]. (emphasis added).
I guess someone forgot to take their prescription pills.
1) Dell is friend with Microsoft 2) Microsoft has some serious security issues 3) Microsoft has no clear "target" to say, "hey Linux too has security issues" 4) Microsoft ask Dell to start shipping Linux 5)...but make sure they use a really lame, unsecure distro (everyone is root!) 6) Microsoft steathly release an exploit/virus/whatever that target Dell's Linux machines 7) voila! Bingo! Next on CNN, "Linux is target of a mass viral infection! Microsoft has the solution!" 8) A page show up on microsoft.com talking about how Linux is bad, etc...
but if you have physical access to ANY machine you can get root on it quite easily. Give me a home-made CD of Red Hat and I'll boot off it, mount any hard drive on the system and do what ever my heart desire. That's the case for ANY OS. I remember quite often I had to rescue some poor sob Solaris server because he forgot the root password. Just plunk in the Solaris CD, boot into the shell, mount the HD and vi the/etc/passwd to erase the root password, reboot and voila. ..
Freshly hacked machine.
Any right-headed sysadmin will AT LEAST lock boot off CD or floppy without some form of basic authentication.
Also, it seems to sit in front of the left eye (most right-handed people are left eye dominant). Being RIGHT eyed dominent (and thus, left handed), I'm wondering if this device would work for me.
Sad, I met Douglas last year, at a conference where he did a lecture. He was very funny and he is still one of my favourite authors. I'm greatly sadden by his sudden departure.
Ciao,...David
As a matter of fact, they are not dead and this site is NOT outdoor, but inside the biodome. It's just that they have to duplicate the polar seasons, so some part of the year, they turn the lights off up to 18 hours a day, down to 4 hours some other parts of the year.
It's not like they are shy, or they're up programming some kernel routines, but rather that the biodome people are kind enough to duplicate their native environment.
...David (the guy who wrote the software that captures their little faces:))
He's maybe the one who installed the physical cam, but I'm the one who wrote the software for it and still maintaining it. The machine is actually a Pentium 133 with 16MB of RAM, a Matrox Meteor framegrabber and RedHat 5.0 (or 5.1, depending on the machine). The software grabs a picture every 15 to 20 seconds, compress it in JPEG and send it via a simple, but new "protocol" to a server machine which runs the montrealcam.com website. That machine is a Digital Alpha running Digital UNIX 4.0B.
He's just using the fact that he installed the physical cam to plug his new company. What a shame.
I was the one to send the previous story, last year. Just check it out.
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There was a big leap between VHS and DVD that really added to the migration and the adoption of DVD by the consumer.
My guess is that HD-DVD and Blu-ray will go the way of Minidisc. They don't add anything remotely interresting for the average consumer. The average consumer is still buying Full-Screen edition of the movies. They won't put any money on those new formats any time soon.
Unless they pull the plug on the DVD format. Which won't happen anytime soon.
at the end of the fight between Godzilla and Zilla...
Mozilla will appear and trash them both to ashes.
...these are not the Star Wars we're looking for...
I want my darn Original Trilogy I saw when I was a kid. Not those butchered movies.
...use so much exclamated speech selling an obviously lowpar computer:
[...] runs on a blazing fast Intel Celeron 2.0GHz CPU that carries with it 256MB of lightning-quick DDR main memory - upgradeable to a mind-boggling 2GB - a 40GB Ultra ATA 100 hard drive and so many extras that we could fill volumes of literature describing them [...]. (emphasis added).
I guess someone forgot to take their prescription pills.
1) Dell is friend with Microsoft ...but make sure they use a really lame, unsecure distro (everyone is root!)
2) Microsoft has some serious security issues
3) Microsoft has no clear "target" to say, "hey Linux too has security issues"
4) Microsoft ask Dell to start shipping Linux
5)
6) Microsoft steathly release an exploit/virus/whatever that target Dell's Linux machines
7) voila! Bingo! Next on CNN, "Linux is target of a mass viral infection! Microsoft has the solution!"
8) A page show up on microsoft.com talking about how Linux is bad, etc...
Really, it makes sense...
OK, I'll put back my foil hat now. Kthxbye.
In Canada, all new EMI records are copy protected. That includes artists like Blur, Radiohead, etc... It is really a shame.
My guess is that Apple will provide 160kbs mp3s since they are using that size for all their stats when they say "1000 songs" on the iPod.
They can't go lower than that.
% man 1 banner
gives out: banner(1)
(can't paste it here, I get that lameness junk filter because of all those # characters).
but if you have physical access to ANY machine you can get root on it quite easily. Give me a home-made CD of Red Hat and I'll boot off it, mount any hard drive on the system and do what ever my heart desire. That's the case for ANY OS. I remember quite often I had to rescue some poor sob Solaris server because he forgot the root password. Just plunk in the Solaris CD, boot into the shell, mount the HD and vi the /etc/passwd to erase the root password, reboot and voila. . .
Freshly hacked machine.
Any right-headed sysadmin will AT LEAST lock boot off CD or floppy without some form of basic authentication.
Also, it seems to sit in front of the left eye (most right-handed people are left eye dominant). Being RIGHT eyed dominent (and thus, left handed), I'm wondering if this device would work for me.
Sad, I met Douglas last year, at a conference where he did a lecture. He was very funny and he is still one of my favourite authors. I'm greatly sadden by his sudden departure. Ciao, ...David
très (and not tres) is a French word meaning, among other thing, very.
...David
Ciao,
It runs Windows 98. :)
...David
As a matter of fact, they are not dead and this site is NOT outdoor, but inside the biodome. It's just that they have to duplicate the polar seasons, so some part of the year, they turn the lights off up to 18 hours a day, down to 4 hours some other parts of the year.
:))
It's not like they are shy, or they're up programming some kernel routines, but rather that the biodome people are kind enough to duplicate their native environment.
...David (the guy who wrote the software that captures their little faces
He's maybe the one who installed the physical cam, but I'm the one who wrote the software for it and still maintaining it. The machine is actually a Pentium 133 with 16MB of RAM, a Matrox Meteor framegrabber and RedHat 5.0 (or 5.1, depending on the machine). The software grabs a picture every 15 to 20 seconds, compress it in JPEG and send it via a simple, but new "protocol" to a server machine which runs the montrealcam.com website. That machine is a Digital Alpha running Digital UNIX 4.0B.
He's just using the fact that he installed the physical cam to plug his new company. What a shame.
I was the one to send the previous story, last year. Just check it out.