I'm actually in Japan right now, for business. Even my teeny little hotel room has one in the bathroom. It took me quite a while to realise that none of those little buttons actually flushes the toilet. That, thankfully, is still mechanical. A power outage would really suck, otherwise.
The linked article mentions that SVG support is in the latest FF 1.0 nightlies (not 1.1 as the headline states, as 1.1 hasn't been released yet...). That article was dated April 25th, though. It says you can tell that SVG support is there by the "-svg-" string in the nightly's file name. So i checked, but the current nightlies don't have that string. I checked back to previous nightlies and still couldn't find it. I finally found it in an April 27th build.
So... is this something they were experimenting with briefly and have dropped again? Is it still in there? I haven't seen any mention of this in the other comments, so i'm kinda curious...
Thank you! I can finally see the maps now! That was it. I routinely disable all those "extra" things that javascript is allowed to do. Just reenabling the change images option in Firefox did it for me.
Unfortunately, this solution may not be available to everyone this affects. NAC.net is also our ISP where I work. If this escalates to where NAC is put in SPEWS' "level 1", we may end up with our company emails being dropped. Should the company switch ISPs, possibly breaking contracts?
As far as NAC itself goes... I know of at least one open mail relay controlled by the ISP itself (not some home user with a misconfigured or trojaned box). Granted, it's not listed in their MX records, and you can only use it to send mail to NAC customers, but I personally get enough spam at work through that machine I have added a spamassassin rule specifically to check for that hostname. And complaining to NAC about it a dozen or so times over the past few years has done absolutely nothing. I guess they can only blame themselves for the SPEWS listing. *sigh*
everywhere else, it is SPEND SPEND SPEND on computers...even if we have no teachers to run them!
See, there's something that's fundamentally wrong with the concept of computers in every classroom. A number of other posts have pointed out that computers are being used as substitutes for lazy teachers, too. Why should it be the teachers' responsibility to run the computers?
If they need to be maintained, or if software needs to be installed, that should all be counted towards the initial cost of the system (thereby hopefully showing how open source software is a cheaper alternative). Just because a computer is dumped in a classroom shouldn't mean the teacher suddenly has to learn to admin the machine. If there happens to be some instructional/educational package relevant to the class, then by all means show it to the teacher and let them decide whether or not to use it. The approach should not be to setup a few workstations and then tell the teacher, "these computers are so good, they've replaced 3 of your colleagues! Be sure to get plenty of use out of them. Oh, and here's an instruction booklet..."
Dunno about Klondike, but I remember playing the Fool's Errand and 3 in Three puzzle games mentioned in the original post on System 6! Another post mentioned Bolo - I played that on my Apple//e, so if that can still be played on newer hardware, there's a few more generations:)
I've been contemplation hooking up my System 7 68k mac recently in order to play some of the earlier Ambrosia games. Hearing that Fool's Errand is freely available, I'm definitely going to do it, because I never got around to finishing that. (I never had a NIC for it, but in the past I've gotten it online using PPP over a direct serial connection to one of my linux boxes...)
I think you're missing the point of the site.... The artists are incorporating their own, distinctive bar code logo into artwork. So, yes, the shadows do reveal a real bar code, the same bar code as all the other pictures on that page:) The original poster had it wrong, they're not manipulating pictures to reveal hidden bar codes, they're manipulating the pictures to _put_in_ the bar code.
I've been keeping an eye on XF86's ftp site since yesterday, the latest in the list of target dates for release of 4.3.0, and saw they only have the source up there. Actually, after seeing this article posted I checked again and now they have FreeBSD binaries. I'm still waiting for Linux binaries...
I usually compile everything on my systems myself, with the exception of OpenOffice and XFree86. OO, because it's huge and I don't have the patience:) and XF86 because the few times I've tried, I didn't have any luck. Admittedly, the last time I tried was version 3.3.6, so I don't know if it's gotten any better since then.
I'm wondering: should I make the effort? X is one of those things like libc, that nearly everything depends on (ok, only graphical things in this case), so you can't afford to get it wrong. Any hints on compiling this from source?
It's pretty cloudy in North-East Pennsylvania... I can make out some of the brighter stars (and planets). I did see a few shooting stars, though! Just barely bright enough to shine through the clouds. The Sun's coming up soon, though, and the sky's starting to get too bright to see much else. Last year was definitely better here...
It wasn't that long ago, really... 70's, 80's or so? My favorite radio stations when I was a kid were pirate stations. Sure, sooner or later one would get shut down, but they'd just go underground for a few months and then pop up again somewhere else on the dial.
So screw the RIAA, don't pay them. The successful pirate stations did it by broadcasting from ships in international waters (think Radio Veronica and Radio Caroline in the North Sea). The same would work here - move it off-shore, out of reach of the RIAA and this misguided decision by the LoC.
And if you don't want to be considered a "pirate"? Just don't play the crap on the RIAA members' labels:) Find some cool-sounding independent bands eager for the publicity and pay them instead!
I'm probably just being overly idealistic though....
I haven't seen this mentioned yet among the may reasons this is a bad idea... The point seems to be to force an upgrade to a newer version after a certain period of time. Well, what if it's an old project, that has since been abandoned? There may not _be_ a newer version with a later expiry date. Or perhaps the program is considered stable and there's no need to write a newer version.... When was the last time you grabbed a newer version of 'nc', for instance?
I unfortunately have a "yahoo id".... not by choice, but i subscribed to some mailing lists that got moved to onelists some time ago. no big deal, i didn't have to change anything in the way i received email. then they got gobbled up by e-groups and the mailing lists i was on all received email telling us about it and to go to e-groups' web site to change preferences. what the hell? this is an EMAIL LIST! i subscribed by email, receive email and you want me to now manage that through some crappy web interface? grumble grumble....
so then egroups gets bought up by yahoo and the same thing happens. i'm used to it by now, and at least i have a half-way decent web browser by this point in case i ever have to change anything.
then finally the day comes when i have to change the email address mail is sent to. i send mail to the lists subscribe/unsubscribe address, hoping to get the usual "help" email, but instead i find i can only change my options through the web site - no other options. ok, i fire up the web browser, trundle on over there and... i'm not allowed to manage my account, where now 3 mailing lists have been centralized, mailing lists i have been subscribed to for years, without signing up for some "yahoo id" and giving out all kinds of personal information! great, i get a free email address out of it - like i need another.
on the bright side, it looks like i caught it in time, as the email address i have those mailing lists sent to didn't receive anything out of the ordinary. i don't know about the yahoo email address, i've never looked at it and have no intention of doing so.
I agree with you about LaTeX being irreplaceable... My PhD dissertation was written in LaTeX, too. But the time taken to put in the document structure elements detracts from the time you're saving by just typing everything. This is where LyX really shines, I believe. You can map any LyX command to a key-binding, and in fact it comes with an "emacs mode" of sorts. Using this, you get the benefit of LyX handling the document structure for you, the almost wysiwyg environment, and being able to type straight LaTeX whenever necessary, plus the emacs key-bindings you're already used to. To be honest, I didn't use plain LyX for the whole dissertation. Things like title page, TOC, TOF, etc. and special pages I prefered to use raw LaTeX for, but here again LyX helped. You can switch to LaTeX mode (using a key-binding, if desired), and either type the code you need, or just \input another file. Once I got into the swing of it (and you know we're talking on the order of a year's worth of writing), I ended up barely using any menus in LyX. Even saving the document and quiting was C-x C-c y:)
I use OS/2 just about every day at work, and i can tell you it's very much still alive and kicking:) when the software that runs our equipment was first designed, windows 3.1 just wouldn't cut it, so the programmers decided to use OS/2. since then, each new version has been built on the last, and new equipments' software borrows elements from the previous generation's. so to this day, all our machines use OS/2 version 3 in their embedded computers, and all field engineers are given laptops that dual boot into Warp 4 to run simulations. (ironically, OS/2 is not supported on these IBM laptops, so it's sometimes hard to find drivers.) it looks like the big push to port everything to windows NT is finally on, though. but it will still be around on all our machines in the field for quite some time to come....
"Intensified" comes from image intensifiers -- vacuum tubes similar to those for the nigh-vision devices.
Actually, the blurb mentions it uses a microchannel plate. In a standard photo-multiplier tube, a photon hits the cathode plate of a "tube", kicking out an electron, which is then accelerated towards the anode. Here they can be used to generate an electrical signal, or more commonly knock out even more electrons to be accelerated towards and even more positively charged anode for a stronger signal, and so on. These "tubes" are carefully arranged in a (kind of) circular array to make sure as many of the accelerated electrons hit the next anode.
A microchannel plate works in essentially the same way, except that the initial photoelectrons are accelerated down narrow tubes instead of a series of anodes. As the electrons collide with the walls of the tubes, they knock more electrons free, these collide again, etc. Also, using narrow tubes like this preserves the spatial resolution of the original photoelectrons - light hitting a small region of the detector produces photoelectrons in only that area and the signal is amplified by only a few of these tubes, producing a final signal in that one spot at the other end of the MCP.
The only snood that i know of is an at least 3 years old mac game (that i have since seen windows incarnations of) that works kind of like a reverse tetris. does this goofy (yet addictive) game have some kind of extra, hidden functionality within the executable program?
I usually find myself working during my holidays, if only because they don't coincide with company's holidays. I've gotten quite used to it really, and usually just leave work a little early to get home and celibrate with the wife. As it turned out, I had off anyway this year during the Winter Solstice, so for once didn't work through it. As a pagan, I wouldn't have any problems working on Dec. 25th. I would rather that, and choose my own day off work, but I just don't have that option.
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Sitting here with mod points, just _wishing_ there were an option for -1 Appaling Spelling. I had to read that 5 times before I figured out what it meant: Tales of British sailors.
it's a little before 6am and i just came in because it's TOO cold out there (Eastern PA)! quite a show, though.... i was standing amongst some trees to block out street lights in the distance, but still got a good view. about 5:30 there was a very bright one that left a trail that lasted almost a minute! i could see the trail even while it was being dispersed by the wind.
anyway, just wanted to post some random observations while sipping single malt to get warm again:)
i hadn't heard of that option... i'll have to give that a go. here's how i solved the problem, though, in case it's of any use to anyone switching between different displays regularly (not just with docking stations): i have two different
Section "Monitor"
entries, and two different
Section "Screen"
entries which use the respective "Monitor"s. then you can start up X with "xinit" for the first "Screen" setup, and use "xinit -- -screen name" for any others. so there's no need to switch config files, and the longish command is easily aliased/scripted.
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I'm actually in Japan right now, for business. Even my teeny little hotel room has one in the bathroom. It took me quite a while to realise that none of those little buttons actually flushes the toilet. That, thankfully, is still mechanical. A power outage would really suck, otherwise.
The linked article mentions that SVG support is in the latest FF 1.0 nightlies (not 1.1 as the headline states, as 1.1 hasn't been released yet...). That article was dated April 25th, though. It says you can tell that SVG support is there by the "-svg-" string in the nightly's file name. So i checked, but the current nightlies don't have that string. I checked back to previous nightlies and still couldn't find it. I finally found it in an April 27th build.
So... is this something they were experimenting with briefly and have dropped again? Is it still in there? I haven't seen any mention of this in the other comments, so i'm kinda curious...
B*B,
-Smoke.
Thank you! I can finally see the maps now! That was it. I routinely disable all those "extra" things that javascript is allowed to do. Just reenabling the change images option in Firefox did it for me.
Unfortunately, this solution may not be available to everyone this affects. NAC.net is also our ISP where I work. If this escalates to where NAC is put in SPEWS' "level 1", we may end up with our company emails being dropped. Should the company switch ISPs, possibly breaking contracts?
As far as NAC itself goes... I know of at least one open mail relay controlled by the ISP itself (not some home user with a misconfigured or trojaned box). Granted, it's not listed in their MX records, and you can only use it to send mail to NAC customers, but I personally get enough spam at work through that machine I have added a spamassassin rule specifically to check for that hostname. And complaining to NAC about it a dozen or so times over the past few years has done absolutely nothing. I guess they can only blame themselves for the SPEWS listing. *sigh*
B*B,
-Smoke.
everywhere else, it is SPEND SPEND SPEND on computers...even if we have no teachers to run them!
See, there's something that's fundamentally wrong with the concept of computers in every classroom. A number of other posts have pointed out that computers are being used as substitutes for lazy teachers, too. Why should it be the teachers' responsibility to run the computers?
If they need to be maintained, or if software needs to be installed, that should all be counted towards the initial cost of the system (thereby hopefully showing how open source software is a cheaper alternative). Just because a computer is dumped in a classroom shouldn't mean the teacher suddenly has to learn to admin the machine. If there happens to be some instructional/educational package relevant to the class, then by all means show it to the teacher and let them decide whether or not to use it. The approach should not be to setup a few workstations and then tell the teacher, "these computers are so good, they've replaced 3 of your colleagues! Be sure to get plenty of use out of them. Oh, and here's an instruction booklet..."
B*B,
-Smoke.
Perhaps Disaster Area are getting back together?
B*B,
-Smoke.
Dunno about Klondike, but I remember playing the Fool's Errand and 3 in Three puzzle games mentioned in the original post on System 6! Another post mentioned Bolo - I played that on my Apple //e, so if that can still be played on newer hardware, there's a few more generations :)
I've been contemplation hooking up my System 7 68k mac recently in order to play some of the earlier Ambrosia games. Hearing that Fool's Errand is freely available, I'm definitely going to do it, because I never got around to finishing that. (I never had a NIC for it, but in the past I've gotten it online using PPP over a direct serial connection to one of my linux boxes...)
B*B,
-Smoke.
I think you're missing the point of the site.... The artists are incorporating their own, distinctive bar code logo into artwork. So, yes, the shadows do reveal a real bar code, the same bar code as all the other pictures on that page :) The original poster had it wrong, they're not manipulating pictures to reveal hidden bar codes, they're manipulating the pictures to _put_in_ the bar code.
B*B,
-Smoke.
Another one: http://www.no-ip.com/
I was researching this a while back, too, but fortunately a friend with a less restrictive ISP had a box I could use.
B*B,
-Smoke.
I've been keeping an eye on XF86's ftp site since yesterday, the latest in the list of target dates for release of 4.3.0, and saw they only have the source up there. Actually, after seeing this article posted I checked again and now they have FreeBSD binaries. I'm still waiting for Linux binaries...
:) and XF86 because the few times I've tried, I didn't have any luck. Admittedly, the last time I tried was version 3.3.6, so I don't know if it's gotten any better since then.
I usually compile everything on my systems myself, with the exception of OpenOffice and XFree86. OO, because it's huge and I don't have the patience
I'm wondering: should I make the effort? X is one of those things like libc, that nearly everything depends on (ok, only graphical things in this case), so you can't afford to get it wrong. Any hints on compiling this from source?
through Google
It's pretty cloudy in North-East Pennsylvania... I can make out some of the brighter stars (and planets). I did see a few shooting stars, though! Just barely bright enough to shine through the clouds. The Sun's coming up soon, though, and the sky's starting to get too bright to see much else. Last year was definitely better here...
-Smoke.
(off to get some more hot caffeine!)
You are correct... The following are for private IP addresses (e.g. for NATing):
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
This is according to RFC 1918.
B*B,
-Smoke.
It wasn't that long ago, really... 70's, 80's or so? My favorite radio stations when I was a kid were pirate stations. Sure, sooner or later one would get shut down, but they'd just go underground for a few months and then pop up again somewhere else on the dial.
:) Find some cool-sounding independent bands eager for the publicity and pay them instead!
So screw the RIAA, don't pay them. The successful pirate stations did it by broadcasting from ships in international waters (think Radio Veronica and Radio Caroline in the North Sea). The same would work here - move it off-shore, out of reach of the RIAA and this misguided decision by the LoC.
And if you don't want to be considered a "pirate"? Just don't play the crap on the RIAA members' labels
I'm probably just being overly idealistic though....
B*B,
-Smoke.
that looks disgusting! :)
in bash:
for i in 1*; do mv $i one${i##1}; done
I haven't seen this mentioned yet among the may reasons this is a bad idea... The point seems to be to force an upgrade to a newer version after a certain period of time. Well, what if it's an old project, that has since been abandoned? There may not _be_ a newer version with a later expiry date. Or perhaps the program is considered stable and there's no need to write a newer version.... When was the last time you grabbed a newer version of 'nc', for instance?
B*B,
-Smoke.
I unfortunately have a "yahoo id".... not by choice, but i subscribed to some mailing lists that got moved to onelists some time ago. no big deal, i didn't have to change anything in the way i received email. then they got gobbled up by e-groups and the mailing lists i was on all received email telling us about it and to go to e-groups' web site to change preferences. what the hell? this is an EMAIL LIST! i subscribed by email, receive email and you want me to now manage that through some crappy web interface? grumble grumble....
so then egroups gets bought up by yahoo and the same thing happens. i'm used to it by now, and at least i have a half-way decent web browser by this point in case i ever have to change anything.
then finally the day comes when i have to change the email address mail is sent to. i send mail to the lists subscribe/unsubscribe address, hoping to get the usual "help" email, but instead i find i can only change my options through the web site - no other options. ok, i fire up the web browser, trundle on over there and... i'm not allowed to manage my account, where now 3 mailing lists have been centralized, mailing lists i have been subscribed to for years, without signing up for some "yahoo id" and giving out all kinds of personal information! great, i get a free email address out of it - like i need another.
on the bright side, it looks like i caught it in time, as the email address i have those mailing lists sent to didn't receive anything out of the ordinary. i don't know about the yahoo email address, i've never looked at it and have no intention of doing so.
-Smoke.
I agree with you about LaTeX being irreplaceable... My PhD dissertation was written in LaTeX, too. But the time taken to put in the document structure elements detracts from the time you're saving by just typing everything. This is where LyX really shines, I believe. You can map any LyX command to a key-binding, and in fact it comes with an "emacs mode" of sorts. Using this, you get the benefit of LyX handling the document structure for you, the almost wysiwyg environment, and being able to type straight LaTeX whenever necessary, plus the emacs key-bindings you're already used to. To be honest, I didn't use plain LyX for the whole dissertation. Things like title page, TOC, TOF, etc. and special pages I prefered to use raw LaTeX for, but here again LyX helped. You can switch to LaTeX mode (using a key-binding, if desired), and either type the code you need, or just \input another file. Once I got into the swing of it (and you know we're talking on the order of a year's worth of writing), I ended up barely using any menus in LyX. Even saving the document and quiting was C-x C-c y :)
I use OS/2 just about every day at work, and i can tell you it's very much still alive and kicking :) when the software that runs our equipment was first designed, windows 3.1 just wouldn't cut it, so the programmers decided to use OS/2. since then, each new version has been built on the last, and new equipments' software borrows elements from the previous generation's. so to this day, all our machines use OS/2 version 3 in their embedded computers, and all field engineers are given laptops that dual boot into Warp 4 to run simulations. (ironically, OS/2 is not supported on these IBM laptops, so it's sometimes hard to find drivers.) it looks like the big push to port everything to windows NT is finally on, though. but it will still be around on all our machines in the field for quite some time to come....
"Intensified" comes from image intensifiers -- vacuum tubes similar to those for the nigh-vision devices.
Actually, the blurb mentions it uses a microchannel plate. In a standard photo-multiplier tube, a photon hits the cathode plate of a "tube", kicking out an electron, which is then accelerated towards the anode. Here they can be used to generate an electrical signal, or more commonly knock out even more electrons to be accelerated towards and even more positively charged anode for a stronger signal, and so on. These "tubes" are carefully arranged in a (kind of) circular array to make sure as many of the accelerated electrons hit the next anode.
A microchannel plate works in essentially the same way, except that the initial photoelectrons are accelerated down narrow tubes instead of a series of anodes. As the electrons collide with the walls of the tubes, they knock more electrons free, these collide again, etc. Also, using narrow tubes like this preserves the spatial resolution of the original photoelectrons - light hitting a small region of the detector produces photoelectrons in only that area and the signal is amplified by only a few of these tubes, producing a final signal in that one spot at the other end of the MCP.
The only snood that i know of is an at least 3 years old mac game (that i have since seen windows incarnations of) that works kind of like a reverse tetris. does this goofy (yet addictive) game have some kind of extra, hidden functionality within the executable program?
I usually find myself working during my holidays, if only because they don't coincide with company's holidays. I've gotten quite used to it really, and usually just leave work a little early to get home and celibrate with the wife. As it turned out, I had off anyway this year during the Winter Solstice, so for once didn't work through it. As a pagan, I wouldn't have any problems working on Dec. 25th. I would rather that, and choose my own day off work, but I just don't have that option.
Sitting here with mod points, just _wishing_ there were an option for -1 Appaling Spelling. I had to read that 5 times before I figured out what it meant: Tales of British sailors.
it's a little before 6am and i just came in because it's TOO cold out there (Eastern PA)! quite a show, though.... i was standing amongst some trees to block out street lights in the distance, but still got a good view. about 5:30 there was a very bright one that left a trail that lasted almost a minute! i could see the trail even while it was being dispersed by the wind.
:)
anyway, just wanted to post some random observations while sipping single malt to get warm again
i hadn't heard of that option... i'll have to give that a go. here's how i solved the problem, though, in case it's of any use to anyone switching between different displays regularly (not just with docking stations): i have two different
Section "Monitor"
entries, and two different
Section "Screen"
entries which use the respective "Monitor"s. then you can start up X with "xinit" for the first "Screen" setup, and use "xinit -- -screen name" for any others. so there's no need to switch config files, and the longish command is easily aliased/scripted.