It's called TIFF, it's open, extensible, and widely supported by nearly all professional imaging tools. One can use libTIFF (BSD-style license) to easily add TIFF reading and writing to any application.
PNG is intended specifically to replace GIF. TIFF is a general purpose container for lossless image data in a variety of formats and lossless* compression methods. TIFF is the defacto standard for exporting/importing data between different applications.
*TIFF was originally to have included JPEG compression and the spec mumbles some vague things about it, but no implementation that I know of actually supports it.
Yes but then you run the risk of getting sued by "big Media"
You're assuming I live in the US(DMC)A. I don't. Individuals don't get sued for alleged copyright infringement where I live. Even then, first they'd have to prove that watching a recording of something that was broadcast free-to-air isn't fair use.
I, too, built a crazy-but-not-quite-mad-crazy mythTV box using Shuttle kit and a Hauppauge PVR 250. For a few months I happily scheduled recordings of my favourite shows.
Until I discovered TvTorrents.com. Why bother going through all the trouble of recording, waiting for the backend to flag the commercials and transcode to Xvid when I can just subscribe to a RSS feed using Azureus and have the final product appear automatically (almost... you have to manually rescan for them to show up in the list of videos).
In my opinion, this is the future of TV, whether the networks want it or not.
I did my taxes this year with Quicktax under WINE. To my surprise and delight, everything just worked. Kudos to the sidenet-wine-config people -- this tool downloads and installs several key bits of software from Microsoft that many windows apps expect (such as IE).
Why C and not C++? I've worked on a lot of large software projects (both C and C++), and although C++ is far from perfect, it is orders of magnitude better for something as dependent on extensions as as what freeswitch is proposing to be.
You're losing out on many useful features (data hiding, polymorphism, inheritance, references, the STL, etc.) and risking the same problems of loosely defined structure by tying freespace to C.
Has there been any Audio CD drm put out that doesn't rely on the auto-run feature of Windows? I remember reading something about one method that would put defects in the disc that would be filtered out by an audio CD player, but I haven't seen any reports if that would affect cd-paranoia.
Yes, there is. There are a few different versions of this, but the general idea is to intentionally put bad data in the tracks (or the TOC) that would be error-corrected out by an audio CD player, but cause a CD-ROM to fail while attempting to read it. Some modern CD-ROM drives still have trouble with this type of copy control. Since the error correction layers have been subverted, the tiniest scratch will usually render the CD unplayable.
I built my myth box with Gentoo, and the Gentoo MythTV HOWTO recommended EvilWM. It's very minimalist. No focus problems, and so low-profile it's practically invisible. Ctrl+Alt+Enter opens a shell if you ever need one.
In case the lameness filter borks the link, the patent number is 5,841,689. You can look it up at www.uspto.gov.
The patent references a "breakthrough" called the "Gendlin Effect". Needless to say, the only references to this ground-breaking discovery are in the company's web pages, and a single forum post on goldenplanetforum.net.
Right now, only those who can pay for the bandwidth can broadcast streaming media. It seems to me that a streaming protocol using bittorrent style swarming would really open up the possibility of broadcast over IP to those without the big bucks.
Instead of transmitting a single file as chunks of data that may be requested from multiple sources a la bittorrent, imagine a sliding window of time in which chunks are valid. Peers advertise available chunks and the remaining window in which they are valid, and download chunks from other peers. The broadcast seeder streams the content to N hosts, which then repeat to N hosts, etc..
Broadcasts wouldn't truly be live, as there would be a delay proportional to the height of the routing tree.
Is something like this already in development? Or does IPv6 multicast handle this kind of scenario natively somehow?
Sean McMullen has written a captivating sf trilogy in which the world is run with the aid of "calculors" -- human powered computers. The slaves which power it are called components and given names such as ADDER14 and MULT3.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Condor. It can run serial or parallel jobs (PVM and MPI are supported), does checkpointing, scales up to massive compute farms, can talk to the Globus Toolkit, is multi-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, HPUX to name a few) and is open source.
Support contracts are available, but not mandatory.
Sorry, I call bullshit. The patents in question were filed in 2000 and 2001, not in 1993 as you indicate in your post.
The patents are 6,275,213 (filed May 1, 2000) and 6,424,333 (filed April 18, 2001). Look them up on uspto.gov.
The Playstation 2 was first demoed in August 1999, launched March 4, 2000 and came with the DualShock II controller.
Now tell me exactly how Sony can be infringing on a patent that didn't exist at the time the claimed infriging device was launched?
Furthermore, Immersion's patents are so broad they encompass anything that a) produces vibration via a mass on a spinning axis that is b) controlled by a processing device of any kind.
A vibrating pager is the most obvious example of prior art I can think of, and Motorola's been making them a lot longer than Immersion's even existed.
Or, as others have pointed out, a vibrator is also controlled by a processing device, albeit an organic one.
Here's hoping this lawsuit will result in a challenge to frivolous patent claims.
We're using Data Frameworks to manage about 30 TB spread across BlueArc filers. It is all NFS and symlink based. Data Frameworks uses a database backend to keep track of allocations. It has an API as well.
Ah, so all porn is completely public domain, and not at all copyrighted?
Good point! Look at all the damage Kazaa and other thrice-damned file-pirating networks have done to the porn industry's bottom line. With all that lost revenue, I'm sure those porn actresses can barely eat!
Software Engineer (05 Nov 2003) Internal Audit (21 Nov 2003) Director of Financial Reporting (08 Dec 2003) Inside Sales Manager (09 Jan 2004) Senior Software Engineer (13 Jan 2004)
Software Engineer (05 Nov 2003) Internal Audit (21 Nov 2003) Director of Financial Reporting (08 Dec 2003) Inside Sales Manager (09 Jan 2004) Senior Software Engineer (13 Jan 2004)
The first series of the REX was made by Franklin. They had no data entry capability. A friend of mine used one religiously -- he would just make notes on paper, type them into his laptop and sync his REX. Great as an address book, but not much else.
Xircom bought the technology (which was apparently licensed from Citizen all along -- the REX 6000 can run applications developed for some identical Citizen models only sold in Asia). The REX 6000 is fantastic -- it lasts forever on two little watch batteries, has a little stylus for adding new information, fits in a pocket (pcmcia card form factor), syncs with a laptop or a cradle, and can sync with pretty much anything. I sync mine to my Yahoo calendar/address book.
Sadly, Intel bought Xircom and discontinued the REX series. Looks like Citizen has kept on developing the technology.
I still use my REX every day. Anything bigger than a pocket calendar seems like a step backwards for me. You can't take notes on it, but that's what paper is for. The REX 6000 is still user supported. There's even a user-developed SDK if you want to write your own applets. It holds a surprising amount of stuff -- which isn't surprising, since it's just text.
Sometimes backlit colour MHz more power more power doesn't really gain you anything.
The Linux community has an advantage over SCO that could reduce Darl & Co. to a pulverized mass of weeping Armani: distributed lawsuits.
Keep in mind the following:
Responding to legal challenges costs money.
SCO has limited cash flow.
There's more of us than there are of them.
Imagine if 300 companies simultaneously sued SCO. The grounds of each suit is unimportant. The legal cost of responding to 300 individual lawsuits scattered across the USA would bleed SCO dry in a heartbeat.
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PNG is intended specifically to replace GIF. TIFF is a general purpose container for lossless image data in a variety of formats and lossless* compression methods. TIFF is the defacto standard for exporting/importing data between different applications.
*TIFF was originally to have included JPEG compression and the spec mumbles some vague things about it, but no implementation that I know of actually supports it.
You're assuming I live in the US(DMC)A. I don't. Individuals don't get sued for alleged copyright infringement where I live. Even then, first they'd have to prove that watching a recording of something that was broadcast free-to-air isn't fair use.
Until I discovered TvTorrents.com. Why bother going through all the trouble of recording, waiting for the backend to flag the commercials and transcode to Xvid when I can just subscribe to a RSS feed using Azureus and have the final product appear automatically (almost... you have to manually rescan for them to show up in the list of videos).
In my opinion, this is the future of TV, whether the networks want it or not.
I grabbed a Heys ePac for my new MacBook Pro and love it. Almost as snazzy as a Crumpler, but for a fraction of the price.
Indeed, I'm surprised when any Windows software just works. Even under Windows.
I did my taxes this year with Quicktax under WINE. To my surprise and delight, everything just worked. Kudos to the sidenet-wine-config people -- this tool downloads and installs several key bits of software from Microsoft that many windows apps expect (such as IE).
Why C and not C++? I've worked on a lot of large software projects (both C and C++), and although C++ is far from perfect, it is orders of magnitude better for something as dependent on extensions as as what freeswitch is proposing to be.
You're losing out on many useful features (data hiding, polymorphism, inheritance, references, the STL, etc.) and risking the same problems of loosely defined structure by tying freespace to C.
Yes, there is. There are a few different versions of this, but the general idea is to intentionally put bad data in the tracks (or the TOC) that would be error-corrected out by an audio CD player, but cause a CD-ROM to fail while attempting to read it. Some modern CD-ROM drives still have trouble with this type of copy control. Since the error correction layers have been subverted, the tiniest scratch will usually render the CD unplayable.
More info here: http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.html#S2-4-3
I built my myth box with Gentoo, and the Gentoo MythTV HOWTO recommended EvilWM. It's very minimalist. No focus problems, and so low-profile it's practically invisible. Ctrl+Alt+Enter opens a shell if you ever need one.
In case the lameness filter borks the link, the patent number is 5,841,689. You can look it up at www.uspto.gov.
The patent references a "breakthrough" called the "Gendlin Effect". Needless to say, the only references to this ground-breaking discovery are in the company's web pages, and a single forum post on goldenplanetforum.net.
Looks like a very clever scam to me.
Instead of transmitting a single file as chunks of data that may be requested from multiple sources a la bittorrent, imagine a sliding window of time in which chunks are valid. Peers advertise available chunks and the remaining window in which they are valid, and download chunks from other peers. The broadcast seeder streams the content to N hosts, which then repeat to N hosts, etc..
Broadcasts wouldn't truly be live, as there would be a delay proportional to the height of the routing tree.
Is something like this already in development? Or does IPv6 multicast handle this kind of scenario natively somehow?
I liked it.
Support contracts are available, but not mandatory.
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Sorry, I call bullshit. The patents in question were filed in 2000 and 2001, not in 1993 as you indicate in your post.
The patents are 6,275,213 (filed May 1, 2000) and 6,424,333 (filed April 18, 2001). Look them up on uspto.gov.
The Playstation 2 was first demoed in August 1999, launched March 4, 2000 and came with the DualShock II controller.
Now tell me exactly how Sony can be infringing on a patent that didn't exist at the time the claimed infriging device was launched?
Furthermore, Immersion's patents are so broad they encompass anything that a) produces vibration via a mass on a spinning axis that is b) controlled by a processing device of any kind.
A vibrating pager is the most obvious example of prior art I can think of, and Motorola's been making them a lot longer than Immersion's even existed.
Or, as others have pointed out, a vibrator is also controlled by a processing device, albeit an organic one.
Here's hoping this lawsuit will result in a challenge to frivolous patent claims.
cheers
We're using Data Frameworks to manage about 30 TB spread across BlueArc filers. It is all NFS and symlink based. Data Frameworks uses a database backend to keep track of allocations. It has an API as well.
Good point! Look at all the damage Kazaa and other thrice-damned file-pirating networks have done to the porn industry's bottom line. With all that lost revenue, I'm sure those porn actresses can barely eat!
Even searching for SCO returns only one actual hit to www.sco.com (not counting the www.caldera.com alias).
A search for site:www.sco.com returns a single entry: the main SCO page.
Compare this with a search for site:www.linux.com. Looks like Google is quietly boycotting SCO.
-Mark
http://www.sco.com/company/jobs/
:-)
I kid you not:
Software Engineer (05 Nov 2003)
Internal Audit (21 Nov 2003)
Director of Financial Reporting (08 Dec 2003)
Inside Sales Manager (09 Jan 2004)
Senior Software Engineer (13 Jan 2004)
Kinda tells a little story, doesn't it.
http://www.sco.com/company/jobs/
:-)
Software Engineer (05 Nov 2003)
Internal Audit (21 Nov 2003)
Director of Financial Reporting (08 Dec 2003)
Inside Sales Manager (09 Jan 2004)
Senior Software Engineer (13 Jan 2004)
Kinda tells a little story, doesn't it.
"Have some light balls!"
- If I understand the article correctly, they're using serious computer power to develop a database of all passwords and their resulting hashes.
Look for it on eBay. Coming soon, to a 733t h4x0r near you!The first series of the REX was made by Franklin. They had no data entry capability. A friend of mine used one religiously -- he would just make notes on paper, type them into his laptop and sync his REX. Great as an address book, but not much else.
Xircom bought the technology (which was apparently licensed from Citizen all along -- the REX 6000 can run applications developed for some identical Citizen models only sold in Asia). The REX 6000 is fantastic -- it lasts forever on two little watch batteries, has a little stylus for adding new information, fits in a pocket (pcmcia card form factor), syncs with a laptop or a cradle, and can sync with pretty much anything. I sync mine to my Yahoo calendar/address book.
Sadly, Intel bought Xircom and discontinued the REX series. Looks like Citizen has kept on developing the technology.
I still use my REX every day. Anything bigger than a pocket calendar seems like a step backwards for me. You can't take notes on it, but that's what paper is for. The REX 6000 is still user supported. There's even a user-developed SDK if you want to write your own applets. It holds a surprising amount of stuff -- which isn't surprising, since it's just text.
Sometimes backlit colour MHz more power more power doesn't really gain you anything.
Keep in mind the following:
Imagine if 300 companies simultaneously sued SCO. The grounds of each suit is unimportant. The legal cost of responding to 300 individual lawsuits scattered across the USA would bleed SCO dry in a heartbeat.
Three important words: GNU's Not Unix.