I have a linksys router thingy, and It sits in front of several computers and other networked home appliances (Tivo, Playstation).
It works great, never had a problem with it at all, but...
I have a linux server running on that network and traffic on port 22 is forwarded to the linux box. Add an old version of sshd and viola! Rooted.
Because I was behind that firewall though I didn't pay as much attention to the box as I should have and it took me a week to realize something was wrong.
Moral: The firewall can't protect you from yourself. You still have to be carefull behind it.
Where just because somebody can type they think they know what the hell they're talking about.
The machines won't replace the umpires. That's not the umpires concern. Please stop posting that.
The core of beef on this system is a struggle for control between the umpires union and MLB. Ever since Richie Phillips (head of the Umpires Union) Tried to wrestle control of umpiring from MLB the two sides have been fighting over exactly who controls the game. MLB has been trying to get umpires to call the rulebook strike zone and Umpires have been trying to maintain their autonomy (a difficult task after the massive f**kup Phillips organized). Questec is a grading system for umpires and umpires don't like it. Players (Curt Schilling most famously) don't like it because they feel it makes the umpires tentative and inconsistent.
The editors are apparently not quite capable of discerning exactly what the story is about or they wouldn't have titled it "Digital Baseball Umpires", which in turn would have kept the slashdot masses from posting random contributions pulled out of their ass. Honestly, do you think that a system which grades strike zone judgement is in anyway a threat to umpiring jobs? Will the strike zone grading system handle calls at the plate? Ejections? Can it call a ground rule double? Infield fly? Seriously people, think about it for about 30 seconds before you post the kneejerk crap that's flooding this story (Umpires == factory workers losing thier jobs to technology? What the hell are you smoking).
I honestly can't imagine *why* you need more than perhaps 20 gig. I honestly can't.
I have a 20G archo's jukebox, and I wish it were bigger. I listen to about 30% of that music at any given time. Lot's of stuff over and over, but occasionally I feel like something a little esoteric, and I'm stuck. I wouldn't listen to the last 40 gig's of a 60 gig player much at all, but everyonce in a while I'd really feel like I had to listen to say: Above the Law, Legends and I'd have it there. While now I have to go home and move the MP3's over from CD it would be awesome to have everything on demand.
The 80211b part is the bridge from the entertainment system to the TV. I have a cable modem, with a Linksys wireless router plugged in. Two computers run off of that, then I have a linksys WET11 wireless bridge sitting behind my TV.
That connects to a hub, and the PS2 network adapter plugs into that, along with the Tivo. The adapter itself just has a cat5 output, you have to provide the wireless (you have to provide the routing too).
The Qcast for me was no extra network equipment since I already had everything set up to play games online. What I was trying to convey was the fact that I could stream music/video over the connection and hadn't had any problems, because I suspect a lot of people will want to avoid stringing wires everywhere.
To recap: PS2->Network Adapter->Hub->WET11 wireless bridge->linksys router->internet.
a: The disc itself contains a bootloader. The bootloader downloads the app from your computer and then runs it. So updates are downloaded to your computer (and yes it does phone home to do so), then next time you run the new application is loaded to the PS2.
b: MP3 quality is good. I can play it loud enough to annoy the neighbors and assuming a 192K rip it sounds fine. I can't speak on the video quality though, I'm not a videophile and I've only used that part a few times. Check the forums for a real answer, but off the top of my head I want to say there have been some problems with very high end video. Again check the forums for the definitive answer.
The difficulty in setting this up is slightly overstated. You need to know the IP address of your computer, but in the manual there are pretty detailed directions on how to get that.
The user interface is still rough, from reading the forums it seems like they wanted to get something out rather than wait for the perfect product.
One glaring flaw in the Review: If you hit R2/L2 you can page up and page down on long lists of files, making scrolling long directories painless.
In general I've loved it so far. It saved me the hassle of setting up something to stream MP3's from my computer.
I run mine over 80211b and it works fine. I've watched full length Divx movies and they streamed fine.
Audio wise it's as good as your MP3's.
There are several UI problems and most are noted in the review. Not being able to play songs while you build your list is a bad one, but according to Qcast there's nothing they can do about it. I'd also really like to be able to watch slideshow's while MP3's play but that's a later release according to broadq.
Speaking of BroadQ they maintain an excellent forum, which is regularly read by developers.
One thing the reviewer failed to mention is that the software is updateable remotetly. A new version is set to ship "any day now". Any updates that require a new cd broadq has provided free of charge to existing users.
I love mine, and use it all the time. Just for streaming MP3's around it would be worth the $50 bucks, but being able to watch my family guy episodes on a full TV makes it a bargain. If you have an internal network and a PS2 save yourself the hassle of trying to build a box yourself and just drop the $50 bucks on this thing. It will be well worth it.
I work for a company in San Diego. About June of last year I got called into the VP's office and told that I was getting a pay cut (effectivly 4%) and being switched to hourly, which would include overtime. I got a bonus to cover the difference in my new salary and my old salary for the rest of the year.
At first I was a little miffed but 2 things made me change my mind: The occasional check with 10 hours of overtime does wonder at filling the budgetary gaps, and being hourly my time is much more valuable. I don't work 80 hours a week to meet arbitrary deadlines because there is a cost to management for me doing that. The result is when I work OT there is something that needs to be done, and when there's nothing that _needs_ to be done I am a 9-5 kind of guy.
Hate to break it to you, but 250,000 * $50 = $12.5 million.
Oh yeah? 500,000 * $50 is $25 million. If you're going to make up numbers go nuts, make up good ones.
Most games get a small number of subscribers for a short period of time like we're now seeing with The Sims, and have seen with basically every non-EQ MMORPG.
Where did you pull this out of? Because I read the article linked to by this story and read:
Ultima Online: 220k subscribers (or, $2.2 million dollars a month).
Sure that's not everquest, but it's not a bad deal at all.
The thing you havn't seemed to grasp is that content is added. If I buy the Sim's online and pay 10 bucks a month they'll keep adding new stuff, providing me with a new experience. In return I stick around for a while (see Everquest). The companies making these games aren't trying to maximize revenue over the next 6 months, they're trying to build a source of revenue that can be nearly continuous (again: See Everquest).
People subscribe to TV. People subscribe to Magazines. People "subscribe" to health clubs.
The concept of reoccuring fee's for entertainment isn't something new and it's not going away, no matter how many statistics we make up.
The chances of making a successful subscription based online game are low, and get lower with each new game that ends up on the shelf and the compitition for each person's $10 grows.
The chance's of making a successful _game_ are low, that hasn't stopped people from trying.
You actually have a good point about competition for the $10 per month, The first $10 bucks goes easy, but as the game expenditures line in the budget grows, it's going to get harder and harder to justify for people. Which is why EA is trying to broadan the audience of people willing to pay for those things.
In summary: Not liking something and having made up statistics to prove it sucks, don't mean it's going away.
People will pay for things that they enjoy. Video game makers are casting around for the right formula that people will pay for on a reoccuring basis. And when they do they will rake in money. If you don't like it you don't have to pay for it. Quit whining about what other people want to do with thier money.
* The second round is the best time to be let go - you don't have the stigma of first-round deadwood, and the company probably still has the cash to gice a decent package (the folks after round 4 I believe got statutory minimum).
I laughed out loud when I read this. It's so true. The first round at my old company was no big deal, it wasn't till the second when people who were really good started getting hit.
* If you think it's coming, sit tight, no point in resigning if they want to pay you to leave.
Amen! We spent the last two weeks looking for jobs and working on each others resume's.
It's funny how things go around. The "vibe" at the time was almost the same as the vibe at the IPO - like a party. People who got kept their jobs were the most depressed, the people who got laid off felt they'd been freed!
Memories. Yeah I remember when I got laid off, the feeling of relief, not having to wonder if it was going to happen. I talk to people still at the company and they lived like that for a long time.
Um, even if you are salaried, you are required to be paid for overtime. There have been many lawsuits because of this, and in all the ones I have heard of the employees won (in CA anyways)
True indeed. I am the lucky benificiary of such a lawsuit. About 6 months ago I got switched from salaried to hourly (the whole IT department did). It's wonderful.
I'm in San Diego, CA
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The old standby argument that 'checking the MD5 signatures' will save you has become null & void; ADM replaced the MD5 signatures too. The only reason the trojan was detected was because of the Google cache! This kind of thing probably has most users afraid to move to anything recently released that hasn't been extensively peer reviewed.
False. From the HLUG website (the group that discovered the trojan): Thanks to Antioffline.com for hosting us, and Gentoo's Portage system for catching the trojaned files via checksums.
Putting MD5 signatures on the same server that the software is available from isn't even close to secure
i've been a geek and around geeks for long enough to know that we can be terrible assholes, mostly due to our insecurities. often times it's confused with "elitism" or "zealotry" when all we're trying to do is build defensive barrriers against being judged.
this also manifests itself with a love for material objects, e.g. "Ah, I guess that the TiBook is no longer a status symbol...". we swap confidence with materialism, hoping we'll be judged by what we own instead of who we are.
seriously, slashdot posters tend to be the most materialistic around. i'd point out examples, but they're easy to pick out; people mention what they bought, what they own, and often times including full part numbers.
Amen, If I had mod points I'd do that but since I don't maybe getting it up to +2 will help.
I have been working on something like this using java. Basically here's how it works:
User sends a message to a bot listening on some server.
Bot parses message to get command.
Bot checks to see if user is allowed to execute command. This is done by checking an XML conf file which lists all the possible commands and their persmissions (currently theres only two levels of persmissions).
If the user can execute the command it is executed and the result is sent back as a message to the user who executed it.
This method works because I can limit the calls made, but if you wanted to change it to work like a shell that would be pretty easy.
The javaTOC package is what I used to connect to aim. It was written by Jeff Heaton and it works great.
I don't have the source anywhere to view, but if anybody wants it let me know...
I hear a lot of bitching, whining and complaing about the record companies, yet I don't see a bunch of these incredibly wealthy artists (not this one, probably) start their own freaking record company. If they're ripping people off THAT much, I would think the artists would have banded together long ago.
You mean like No Limit Records? Master P's label that he started and put both of his brothers and his son on? I've heard him say in interviews that he can sell 100,000 units and make more money than somebody who went platnium on a Major.
Or Suave House? Rap A Lot? Death Row? Ruthless? Aftermath (Although I'm not sure if Aftermath is a lable or an imprint, or the difference between the two).
2) Maybe this is just me and a few others but -- enough with the "What is the best ____ for geeks?" [slashdot.org] questions! If you're trying to purchase an identity, why not go to Abercrombie and Fitch and buy a good one?
You never have mod points when you need them. Bravo, at once insightful and funny.
I've been using a wet11 for my ps2 for a week with no problems. If you are using the default settings for your wireless network (no WEP, SSID of linksys) you shouldn't have to configure the wet11 at all. Good luck.
I've been looking at this, waiting to buy until Tribes Arial Assault comes out. I'd like to hear more detail: Did the network adapter setup go ok? How is the speed/latency? What's the form factor (or: can i hide it behind the TV so my wife won't get to annoyed?).
The adaptor setup is the one I'm worried about, I've read here some people have had problems with this and the Xbox. If anybody has this setup and could elaborate I'd appreciate it.
I'll chime in:
I have an Archos 20 as well, I got it about 2 months ago and I love it. I take it riding with me (fairly rough terrain) and I've never had it skip. I've dropped it a few times and it's fine. I use the line out to my stereo sometimes and it works well.
The only problem I have with it is playlists. It's a pain in the ass getting playlists set up. And even if you play the list on shuffle mode it always plays the first song, then shuffles. So make sure your first song is one you like.
If I had to do it again, I'd buy one in a heartbeat. It's great.
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Zug-Zug, I had a boss who loved that game and he would occasionaly say that and stomp off.
Memories.
I have a linksys router thingy, and It sits in front of several computers and other networked home appliances (Tivo, Playstation).
It works great, never had a problem with it at all, but...
I have a linux server running on that network and traffic on port 22 is forwarded to the linux box. Add an old version of sshd and viola! Rooted.
Because I was behind that firewall though I didn't pay as much attention to the box as I should have and it took me a week to realize something was wrong.
Moral: The firewall can't protect you from yourself. You still have to be carefull behind it.
Where just because somebody can type they think they know what the hell they're talking about.
The machines won't replace the umpires. That's not the umpires concern. Please stop posting that.
The core of beef on this system is a struggle for control between the umpires union and MLB. Ever since Richie Phillips (head of the Umpires Union) Tried to wrestle control of umpiring from MLB the two sides have been fighting over exactly who controls the game. MLB has been trying to get umpires to call the rulebook strike zone and Umpires have been trying to maintain their autonomy (a difficult task after the massive f**kup Phillips organized). Questec is a grading system for umpires and umpires don't like it. Players (Curt Schilling most famously) don't like it because they feel it makes the umpires tentative and inconsistent.
So far the system has had no affect.
The editors are apparently not quite capable of discerning exactly what the story is about or they wouldn't have titled it "Digital Baseball Umpires", which in turn would have kept the slashdot masses from posting random contributions pulled out of their ass. Honestly, do you think that a system which grades strike zone judgement is in anyway a threat to umpiring jobs? Will the strike zone grading system handle calls at the plate? Ejections? Can it call a ground rule double? Infield fly? Seriously people, think about it for about 30 seconds before you post the kneejerk crap that's flooding this story (Umpires == factory workers losing thier jobs to technology? What the hell are you smoking).
Just to let you know: Amplitude has been on sale at Target stores for $18 dollars for the last week.
I honestly can't imagine *why* you need more than perhaps 20 gig. I honestly can't.
I have a 20G archo's jukebox, and I wish it were bigger. I listen to about 30% of that music at any given time. Lot's of stuff over and over, but occasionally I feel like something a little esoteric, and I'm stuck. I wouldn't listen to the last 40 gig's of a 60 gig player much at all, but everyonce in a while I'd really feel like I had to listen to say: Above the Law, Legends and I'd have it there. While now I have to go home and move the MP3's over from CD it would be awesome to have everything on demand.
That's the joy of an even bigger player.
I am alway's glad to talk about my setup :)
The 80211b part is the bridge from the entertainment system to the TV. I have a cable modem, with a Linksys wireless router plugged in. Two computers run off of that, then I have a linksys WET11 wireless bridge sitting behind my TV.
That connects to a hub, and the PS2 network adapter plugs into that, along with the Tivo. The adapter itself just has a cat5 output, you have to provide the wireless (you have to provide the routing too).
The Qcast for me was no extra network equipment since I already had everything set up to play games online. What I was trying to convey was the fact that I could stream music/video over the connection and hadn't had any problems, because I suspect a lot of people will want to avoid stringing wires everywhere.
To recap: PS2->Network Adapter->Hub->WET11 wireless bridge->linksys router->internet.
a: The disc itself contains a bootloader. The bootloader downloads the app from your computer and then runs it. So updates are downloaded to your computer (and yes it does phone home to do so), then next time you run the new application is loaded to the PS2.
b: MP3 quality is good. I can play it loud enough to annoy the neighbors and assuming a 192K rip it sounds fine. I can't speak on the video quality though, I'm not a videophile and I've only used that part a few times. Check the forums for a real answer, but off the top of my head I want to say there have been some problems with very high end video. Again check the forums for the definitive answer.
I had no idea at all, thanks for the heads up. Last time I checked it was the first season on UK (region 2?) DVD only.
The difficulty in setting this up is slightly overstated. You need to know the IP address of your computer, but in the manual there are pretty detailed directions on how to get that.
The user interface is still rough, from reading the forums it seems like they wanted to get something out rather than wait for the perfect product.
I bought mine about two weeks ago.
One glaring flaw in the Review: If you hit R2/L2 you can page up and page down on long lists of files, making scrolling long directories painless.
In general I've loved it so far. It saved me the hassle of setting up something to stream MP3's from my computer.
I run mine over 80211b and it works fine. I've watched full length Divx movies and they streamed fine.
Audio wise it's as good as your MP3's.
There are several UI problems and most are noted in the review. Not being able to play songs while you build your list is a bad one, but according to Qcast there's nothing they can do about it. I'd also really like to be able to watch slideshow's while MP3's play but that's a later release according to broadq.
Speaking of
BroadQ they maintain an excellent forum, which is regularly read by developers.
One thing the reviewer failed to mention is that the software is updateable remotetly. A new version is set to ship "any day now". Any updates that require a new cd broadq has provided free of charge to existing users.
I love mine, and use it all the time. Just for streaming MP3's around it would be worth the $50 bucks, but being able to watch my family guy episodes on a full TV makes it a bargain. If you have an internal network and a PS2 save yourself the hassle of trying to build a box yourself and just drop the $50 bucks on this thing. It will be well worth it.
If you have a PS2 check out www.broadq.com, I bought one this weekend and it play's my family guy Divx files fine, plus MP3's, plus pictures.
This looks perfect, has anybody used it?
What gives?
Slow news day + Newsforge needs some traffic.
I work for a company in San Diego. About June of last year I got called into the VP's office and told that I was getting a pay cut (effectivly 4%) and being switched to hourly, which would include overtime. I got a bonus to cover the difference in my new salary and my old salary for the rest of the year.
At first I was a little miffed but 2 things made me change my mind: The occasional check with 10 hours of overtime does wonder at filling the budgetary gaps, and being hourly my time is much more valuable. I don't work 80 hours a week to meet arbitrary deadlines because there is a cost to management for me doing that. The result is when I work OT there is something that needs to be done, and when there's nothing that _needs_ to be done I am a 9-5 kind of guy.
It's fantastic.
Hate to break it to you, but 250,000 * $50 = $12.5 million.
Oh yeah? 500,000 * $50 is $25 million. If you're going to make up numbers go nuts, make up good ones.
Most games get a small number of subscribers for a short period of time like we're now seeing with The Sims, and have seen with basically every non-EQ MMORPG.
Where did you pull this out of? Because I read the article linked to by this story and read:
Ultima Online: 220k subscribers (or, $2.2 million dollars a month).
Sure that's not everquest, but it's not a bad deal at all.
The thing you havn't seemed to grasp is that content is added. If I buy the Sim's online and pay 10 bucks a month they'll keep adding new stuff, providing me with a new experience. In return I stick around for a while (see Everquest). The companies making these games aren't trying to maximize revenue over the next 6 months, they're trying to build a source of revenue that can be nearly continuous (again: See Everquest).
People subscribe to TV.
People subscribe to Magazines.
People "subscribe" to health clubs.
The concept of reoccuring fee's for entertainment isn't something new and it's not going away, no matter how many statistics we make up.
The chances of making a successful subscription based online game are low, and get lower with each new game that ends up on the shelf and the compitition for each person's $10 grows.
The chance's of making a successful _game_ are low, that hasn't stopped people from trying.
You actually have a good point about competition for the $10 per month, The first $10 bucks goes easy, but as the game expenditures line in the budget grows, it's going to get harder and harder to justify for people. Which is why EA is trying to broadan the audience of people willing to pay for those things.
In summary: Not liking something and having made up statistics to prove it sucks, don't mean it's going away.
People will pay for things that they enjoy. Video game makers are casting around for the right formula that people will pay for on a reoccuring basis. And when they do they will rake in money. If you don't like it you don't have to pay for it. Quit whining about what other people want to do with thier money.
* The second round is the best time to be let go - you don't have the stigma of first-round deadwood, and the company probably still has the cash to gice a decent package (the folks after round 4 I believe got statutory minimum).
I laughed out loud when I read this. It's so true. The first round at my old company was no big deal, it wasn't till the second when people who were really good started getting hit.
* If you think it's coming, sit tight, no point in resigning if they want to pay you to leave.
Amen! We spent the last two weeks looking for jobs and working on each others resume's.
It's funny how things go around. The "vibe" at the time was almost the same as the vibe at the IPO - like a party. People who got kept their jobs were the most depressed, the people who got laid off felt they'd been freed!
Memories. Yeah I remember when I got laid off, the feeling of relief, not having to wonder if it was going to happen. I talk to people still at the company and they lived like that for a long time.
Um, even if you are salaried, you are required to be paid for overtime. There have been many lawsuits because of this, and in all the ones I have heard of the employees won (in CA anyways)
True indeed. I am the lucky benificiary of such a lawsuit. About 6 months ago I got switched from salaried to hourly (the whole IT department did). It's wonderful.
I'm in San Diego, CA
False. From the HLUG website (the group that discovered the trojan):
Thanks to Antioffline.com for hosting us, and Gentoo's Portage system for catching the trojaned files via checksums.
Putting MD5 signatures on the same server that the software is available from isn't even close to secure
This is true though.
this also manifests itself with a love for material objects, e.g. "Ah, I guess that the TiBook is no longer a status symbol
seriously, slashdot posters tend to be the most materialistic around. i'd point out examples, but they're easy to pick out; people mention what they bought, what they own, and often times including full part numbers.
Amen, If I had mod points I'd do that but since I don't maybe getting it up to +2 will help.
I have been working on something like this using java. Basically here's how it works:
User sends a message to a bot listening on some server.
Bot parses message to get command.
Bot checks to see if user is allowed to execute command. This is done by checking an XML conf file which lists all the possible commands and their persmissions (currently theres only two levels of persmissions).
If the user can execute the command it is executed and the result is sent back as a message to the user who executed it.
This method works because I can limit the calls made, but if you wanted to change it to work like a shell that would be pretty easy.
The javaTOC package is what I used to connect to aim. It was written by Jeff Heaton and it works great.
I don't have the source anywhere to view, but if anybody wants it let me know...
You mean like No Limit Records? Master P's label that he started and put both of his brothers and his son on? I've heard him say in interviews that he can sell 100,000 units and make more money than somebody who went platnium on a Major.
Or Suave House? Rap A Lot? Death Row? Ruthless? Aftermath (Although I'm not sure if Aftermath is a lable or an imprint, or the difference between the two).
It's been done, with quite a bit of success.
You never have mod points when you need them. Bravo, at once insightful and funny.
I've been looking at this, waiting to buy until Tribes Arial Assault comes out. I'd like to hear more detail: Did the network adapter setup go ok? How is the speed/latency? What's the form factor (or: can i hide it behind the TV so my wife won't get to annoyed?).
The adaptor setup is the one I'm worried about, I've read here some people have had problems with this and the Xbox. If anybody has this setup and could elaborate I'd appreciate it.
I have an Archos 20 as well, I got it about 2 months ago and I love it. I take it riding with me (fairly rough terrain) and I've never had it skip. I've dropped it a few times and it's fine. I use the line out to my stereo sometimes and it works well.
The only problem I have with it is playlists. It's a pain in the ass getting playlists set up. And even if you play the list on shuffle mode it always plays the first song, then shuffles. So make sure your first song is one you like.
If I had to do it again, I'd buy one in a heartbeat. It's great.
5) Japan's War
A history of the Japanese industrial build up and the Japanese perspective on World War II.
This is a great book. A good companion to it is embracing defeat by dowers, which deals with post war japan.
I guess i should chime in here:
Hamlet
King Lear
Fall of the Roman Empire
The rise and fall of the third Reich
Choke