On MacOS X many programs provide a 'check for updates' option in their 'application' menu. Firefox does not provide this. This is especially useful when you consider most people never quit their browser, since most Mac users simply put the computer to sleep.
DP Review has the press release, which includes the following description:
The Digital Negative Specification is based on the TIFF EP format, an accepted standard, and already the basis of many proprietary raw formats. The power of.DNG format lies in a set of metadata that must be included in the file to describe key details about the camera and settings..DNG-compliant software and hardware can adapt on the fly to handle new cameras as they are introduced. The new file format unifies conflicting raw formats, enabling the preservation of a pristine version of the original raw image and the metadata associated with it..DNG is also flexible enough to allow camera manufacturers to continue to add their own "private" metadata fields.
Adobe already has a page on DNG. Its is a free format and the specs are right there on the page, so GIMP won't lose out.
I believe the format is a) to save Adobe money long term (they don't have to support yet another specific sensor) and b) reduce headaches and complaints from the user. We'll just see how the camera companies and digital photography professionals react.
On some of the photos on th net, of the iMac G5 inards, if you look carefully you can see an AMD logo on one of the chips. The fact you can see the logo is a clear sign that this not a CPU, since otherwise it would have a heat sink on it. AMD produces controller chips for both PCI-X and Hypertransport (I'm not sure of the relationship between the two technologies) and you'll probably find that this is what the chip is.
No, what I'm trying to do is set up a 6to4 tunnel, that would allow to access IPv6 networks. MacOS X already has IPv6 enabled, its just that I need to set up a tunnel.
I am running MacOS X 10.3.5 behind a Belkin DSL router. I followed the instructions here. I then tried 'ping6 www.kame.net', to which I get 'ping6: UDP connect: No route to host'. I then follow the instructions here, and then trying ping6 again I get:
[localhost:~] userx% ping6 www.ipv6.digital.com PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2002:0:0:1::1 --> 3ffe:1200:2001:1:8000::2 ping6: sendmsg: Network is down ping6: wrote www.ipv6.digital.com 16 chars, ret=-1
If I play around too much I get a kernel panic. Anyone have any ideas?
Both the addresses you specify have IPv4 addresses, and that is what your computer is using. To see how to set up a 6to4 tunnel follow this link. www.kame.net is the site to try to connect to for testing. Typing 'ping6 www.kame.net' give you something back, other than 'ping6: UDP connect: No route to host'.
At the moment I can't get it working, so I'm trying to see what I have done wrong.
Actually far often enough, letting the customer see and touch the product is what's needed. As soon as you start talking about, what are to them, abstract concepts they get lost. A sale is about the senses: let customer see, hear, touch the product. This way any differences in terminology gets sorted out with the reality standing there.
So Doom 3 used OpenGL and Direct-X for th rest, including sound. Could anyone tell me how OpenAL compares to DirectSound and DirectSound X? Would the game have lost anything by using this API?
You might find that in certain cases that some people have upped their graphics card without upping the rest of the system. Although the graphics card helps a lot, if the system is not up to spec then you will have a card that is only being used at less than full output, since the CPU can't transfer enough data or calculate the phyics effectively.
Original Star wars: story about the Jedis vs the evil empire (good film) 1st generation 'tweaks': story the same, with added footage, which looks like crap 2nd genertation 'tweaks': story changed slightly, more crap scenes added
continuing along this line of Lucas not being able to leave the films along:
100th generation 'tweaks': Film looks like it was originally done totally in CGI, not real actors and the the film is totally crap. People bought the last 99 iterations, so Lucas and co. thought 'new characters: even more franchise money'.
Heck, had Leonardo DaVinci had the same approach as Lucas, then the Mona Lisa would have had a moustache and other poor additions.
Please George Lucas release the orginal cut on DVD!!!
If you are in Montreal and wish to rent Anime, then a few places I know of include:
- Sci-Fi Anime: on Decarie, nr Villa-Maria metro
- Marche Clandestin: on Ontario, nr St-Denis
- La Boite Noire: on St-Denis, below Mont-Royal
- Zip.ca: not really in Montreal, but Canada wide, has a selection
The do have Ghost in the Shell: SAC. Otherwise if you wish to buy, from somewhere other than Amazon, then 'Metro Video' has a good selection. At $30-$40 (+tax) a go anime DVDs are far from cheap:(
I realise this is a little off-topic, but hopefully it should be useful to someone.
What your employer is doing is fair enough, after all it is their server. Another approach they could have used is providing an SSL connection and requiring authentication to connect to the SMTP server. The current approach is the easiest solution for them. Remember that the requirement is to prevent people using the SMTP server as a relay.
In many ways you could see this a company phone:
They could leave the phone inside and thus require you go through the hoops to get in to use it, such as establishing virtual presence.
They could leave it outside where anyone could use the phone and thus appear to be phoning from the company.
Place it outside but require authentication to use it
The first approach is so much easier to implement for the company, since you know that it is much more secure that the second possibility and does not require every service to be authenticated.
Using BigDecimal instead of double really gives me a good number. Now just to calculate the prime. Sure I could have used an already calculated values of e, but that would not have been any fun;) For those of you interested:
static BigDecimal ZERO = new BigDecimal("0");
static BigDecimal ONE = new BigDecimal("1");
public static BigDecimal factorial ( double n ) {
if (n == 0) return ONE;
BigDecimal x = ONE;
for ( int i=1; i<=n; i++ ) {
x = x.multiply(new BigDecimal(i));
}
return x;
}
public static BigDecimal calcE ( double x ) {
BigDecimal n = ZERO;
for ( int i=0; i<=x; i++ ) {
BigDecimal m = ONE.divide(factorial(i),1000,BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF _EVEN);
n = n.add(m);
}
return n;
}
public static boolean isPrime ( String strValue ) { //not sure whether this is really useful in reducing //processing?
if ( strValue.endsWith("5") || strValue.endsWith("2") ) {
return false;
}
return (new BigInteger(strValue)).isProbablePrime(1);
}
Turns out that I have better luck getting an answer using the defintion of the notes of this page. The only problem is that factorial reaches infinity too fast when using double - this is for an input value somewhere between 150 and 175. There must be a better way to calculate the precision to n decimal places.
I haven't spent enough time doing maths, so I still consider myself lacking in those skills. Looking around the net I came across this defintion, but I am unsure how to go about calculating e using the Mecator series for the following method, in Java:
public static double calcE ( double x ) {
x=x+1;
double n = x;
for ( int i=0; i<20; i++ ) {
double m = Math.pow(x,(double)i+1)/(i+1);
m = m* Math.pow( -1.0,(double)i);
n = n + m;
}
return n;
}
It does not work. I am really not sure what the right approach would be to calculate e to precision n.
Anybody got something to share - either your own work, or something copied and pasted from elsewhere?
Try to eject the CD by holding the button with the Mac turned off due to a power outage
This would have been a good argument for floppies, but fails totally for CDs. All CD-ROM players, that I have used so far, have electronic eject buttons. Basically these buttons a) require power to do their work b) will not eject the CD if the OS tells the drive to prevent ejection.
All new Macs have an eject button on the keyboard, which is used to eject and inject the CD tray.
I should note that on most CD-ROM drives the eject/inject button is under the tray, so it is really only pratical for ejecting the disc.
My experience of setting up a Jabber server wasn't all too good either. I managed to get one up and running in the end though. To make life easier I made sure that any person could create a new account on the server, since it was the easiest solution. If you are interested I could find out the configuration I had.
Things that you should note is that the server needs to be able to resolve the address of the server it is running on and the other servers is may need to connect to. This was an issue when I tried it as home, since my DNS does not have the name of my computer in it.
Also, check all passwords in the config files are set correctly.
As to clients, there aren't really too many good ones. On the Windows side Trillian Pro and Miranda seem fair enough. On the Mac side I have experience with Fire and on Linux Gaim.
At the moment we can't be certain what impact on Jabber's market share this will have. Hopefully help increase it and get people talking about it. If you have a friend who does not have a Jabber server then they can still use the central jabber.org server.
If Apple's move has any impact, I wonder how long it would be before ISPs start providing Jabber servers.
The only thing I have to wonder is if the jabber account being the same address as your e-mail address would increase e-mail spam?
I was given the URL of CopyImage. It works under MacOS X ("works for me") and also should work on any another platform - the extension only uses Javascript that leverages what Firefox already provides.
Hmm, I decided to try that, but the only copy option is 'copy image location', which copies the URL. This is for both Mozilla and Firefox. I tried dragging and dropping to two different applications. The first application only took the URL, while the second took the image.
Slashdot Mirror
Coffe is not addictive - really.
If you want some arguments then you'll have to wait until I have had my coffee.
On MacOS X many programs provide a 'check for updates' option in their 'application' menu. Firefox does not provide this. This is especially useful when you consider most people never quit their browser, since most Mac users simply put the computer to sleep.
Adobe already has a page on DNG. Its is a free format and the specs are right there on the page, so GIMP won't lose out.
I believe the format is a) to save Adobe money long term (they don't have to support yet another specific sensor) and b) reduce headaches and complaints from the user. We'll just see how the camera companies and digital photography professionals react.
On some of the photos on th net, of the iMac G5 inards, if you look carefully you can see an AMD logo on one of the chips. The fact you can see the logo is a clear sign that this not a CPU, since otherwise it would have a heat sink on it. AMD produces controller chips for both PCI-X and Hypertransport (I'm not sure of the relationship between the two technologies) and you'll probably find that this is what the chip is.
you are trying to use ipv6 on an ipv4 network.
No, what I'm trying to do is set up a 6to4 tunnel, that would allow to access IPv6 networks. MacOS X already has IPv6 enabled, its just that I need to set up a tunnel.
I am running MacOS X 10.3.5 behind a Belkin DSL router. I followed the instructions here. I then tried 'ping6 www.kame.net', to which I get 'ping6: UDP connect: No route to host'. I then follow the instructions here, and then trying ping6 again I get:
[localhost:~] userx% ping6 www.ipv6.digital.com
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2002:0:0:1::1 --> 3ffe:1200:2001:1:8000::2
ping6: sendmsg: Network is down
ping6: wrote www.ipv6.digital.com 16 chars, ret=-1
If I play around too much I get a kernel panic. Anyone have any ideas?
Both the addresses you specify have IPv4 addresses, and that is what your computer is using. To see how to set up a 6to4 tunnel follow this link. www.kame.net is the site to try to connect to for testing. Typing 'ping6 www.kame.net' give you something back, other than 'ping6: UDP connect: No route to host'.
At the moment I can't get it working, so I'm trying to see what I have done wrong.
Actually far often enough, letting the customer see and touch the product is what's needed. As soon as you start talking about, what are to them, abstract concepts they get lost. A sale is about the senses: let customer see, hear, touch the product. This way any differences in terminology gets sorted out with the reality standing there.
So Doom 3 used OpenGL and Direct-X for th rest, including sound. Could anyone tell me how OpenAL compares to DirectSound and DirectSound X? Would the game have lost anything by using this API?
You might find that in certain cases that some people have upped their graphics card without upping the rest of the system. Although the graphics card helps a lot, if the system is not up to spec then you will have a card that is only being used at less than full output, since the CPU can't transfer enough data or calculate the phyics effectively.
Original Star wars: story about the Jedis vs the evil empire (good film)
1st generation 'tweaks': story the same, with added footage, which looks like crap
2nd genertation 'tweaks': story changed slightly, more crap scenes added
continuing along this line of Lucas not being able to leave the films along:
100th generation 'tweaks': Film looks like it was originally done totally in CGI, not real actors and the the film is totally crap. People bought the last 99 iterations, so Lucas and co. thought 'new characters: even more franchise money'.
Heck, had Leonardo DaVinci had the same approach as Lucas, then the Mona Lisa would have had a moustache and other poor additions.
Please George Lucas release the orginal cut on DVD!!!
There used to be the Japanese version the Japanese web site of the film, but they seem to have removed the trailer and redone the site.
The trailer was originally in Quicktime. There are two versions of thr trailer, one which is around 33MiB and the other around 56 MiB.
Searching with google (terms: 'ghost shell innocence mov') I got this one amongst them:
FilmForce: Exclusive Preview
If you are in Montreal and wish to rent Anime, then a few places I know of include:
:(
- Sci-Fi Anime: on Decarie, nr Villa-Maria metro
- Marche Clandestin: on Ontario, nr St-Denis
- La Boite Noire: on St-Denis, below Mont-Royal
- Zip.ca: not really in Montreal, but Canada wide, has a selection
The do have Ghost in the Shell: SAC. Otherwise if you wish to buy, from somewhere other than Amazon, then 'Metro Video' has a good selection. At $30-$40 (+tax) a go anime DVDs are far from cheap
I realise this is a little off-topic, but hopefully it should be useful to someone.
In many ways you could see this a company phone:
They could leave the phone inside and thus require you go through the hoops to get in to use it, such as establishing virtual presence.
They could leave it outside where anyone could use the phone and thus appear to be phoning from the company.
Place it outside but require authentication to use it
The first approach is so much easier to implement for the company, since you know that it is much more secure that the second possibility and does not require every service to be authenticated.
Turns out that I have better luck getting an answer using the defintion of the notes of this page. The only problem is that factorial reaches infinity too fast when using double - this is for an input value somewhere between 150 and 175. There must be a better way to calculate the precision to n decimal places.
Anybody got something to share - either your own work, or something copied and pasted from elsewhere?
Try to eject the CD by holding the button with the Mac turned off due to a power outage
This would have been a good argument for floppies, but fails totally for CDs. All CD-ROM players, that I have used so far, have electronic eject buttons. Basically these buttons a) require power to do their work b) will not eject the CD if the OS tells the drive to prevent ejection.
All new Macs have an eject button on the keyboard, which is used to eject and inject the CD tray.
I should note that on most CD-ROM drives the eject/inject button is under the tray, so it is really only pratical for ejecting the disc.
My experience of setting up a Jabber server wasn't all too good either. I managed to get one up and running in the end though. To make life easier I made sure that any person could create a new account on the server, since it was the easiest solution. If you are interested I could find out the configuration I had.
Things that you should note is that the server needs to be able to resolve the address of the server it is running on and the other servers is may need to connect to. This was an issue when I tried it as home, since my DNS does not have the name of my computer in it.
Also, check all passwords in the config files are set correctly.
As to clients, there aren't really too many good ones. On the Windows side Trillian Pro and Miranda seem fair enough. On the Mac side I have experience with Fire and on Linux Gaim.
At the moment we can't be certain what impact on Jabber's market share this will have. Hopefully help increase it and get people talking about it. If you have a friend who does not have a Jabber server then they can still use the central jabber.org server.
If Apple's move has any impact, I wonder how long it would be before ISPs start providing Jabber servers.
The only thing I have to wonder is if the jabber account being the same address as your e-mail address would increase e-mail spam?
Did a quick search with Google and got the following:
Gamecube Controller Firmware
Which is part of EzHid Firmware project. On other hand, if like me, you would like to skip on the soldering iron there is this adaptor.
I was given the URL of CopyImage. It works under MacOS X ("works for me") and also should work on any another platform - the extension only uses Javascript that leverages what Firefox already provides.
Would be nice if this was standard.
Hmm, I decided to try that, but the only copy option is 'copy image location', which copies the URL. This is for both Mozilla and Firefox. I tried dragging and dropping to two different applications. The first application only took the URL, while the second took the image.
Maybe there is an extension to add 'copy image'.
BTW this was under MacOS X.
Sounds like you have never heard of Konfabulator? I feel that many of the widgets have much more polish than the ones that I have seen under KDE.
MacOS X will also come with Dashboard, so this functionality will be standard in the OS.
Thanks for the correction.