(Just visualise it: all the packets on both Internets all come together to chant "Speech! Speech! Speech!". Aaahhh.)
I'd like to thank all the people who helped me get where I am today, all the script kiddies, my coworkers, O'Reilly & Associates, Linus Torvolds for making Linux, Bill Gates for making Windows, and all the really smart people out there at MIT for making X11.
We've come along way from Athena widgets, nobody in their right mind uses Motif anymore, and everything is a beautiful drab KDE and Gnome gray. We've had SCO try to poison our spirits, but that which does not kill you only makes you stronger.
Way to go folks. You've done well.
(note to mods: this is funny, look at my uid)
Is anyone else curious what SSA trees are?
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Not a C coder myself, (sticking mainly to perl).. I've just got to ask, what are SSA trees, and what benefit do they serve?
Hah. My most recent debit card is *blank* on the signature line.
My most recent credit card says "PLEASE SEE ID" on the signature line. Nobody *ever* asks to see ID. Nobody *ever* asks why the card is blank. Never. Infact, the entire 3 years time I've had card with no signature on them (blank, or with "PLEASE SEE ID"), I've been asked less than 10 times.
When the cashier doesn't ask for my ID, what do I do? I don't say anything. But when they *do* ask me for my ID, I thank them. "Thank you for asking. You're one of the few people who actually do check. Thank you."
I hope that thanking them so earnstly that they check the next person in line too.
My father who got sent to locksmithing training by the Department of Defense was describing how you drill into the door of a safe to open it if you've somehow lost the combination. Basically you get a piece of metal that is the size of the door from the manufacturer -- it has marks on it where to drill. You drill according to the directions, and then fiddle with the inner workings of the locking mechanism to move the tumblers where they should be in order to open the safe, and to change the combination.
The bad part is that once you've done this, to make the safe secure again you put a steel ball bearing the size of the hole in the hole, and then weld it in there. There is absolutely no way you're going to be able to drill through that steel. Any drill bit you try to drill through it is just going to dance on it, and end up breaking the drill bit.
So I guess in that case, safes that have been forcibly opened using the above method are safer than ones that havn't.
Why do I want to break out my atari
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... and play asteroids? 8-)
> . . O
I can just see the "bullet" hitting the asteroid, but.. we've only got one bullet, so how in the heck are we going to deal with the bits of asteroid from the big one? I mean, the entire point of firing up on the asteroid in the first place was to vaporise it. They think one shot will do it? C'mon, we all know from experience that you have to break it down to advnace to the next level.
I learned the hard way. I purchased Alien vs Predator 2 -- a kick ass game. I was playing it in my shuttle SV24, and accidentially gave the box a swift kick while getting more comfortable in my chair. Then came the horrible sound of the CDROM drive scratching the bejesus out of Disc 1 of AVP2. There was no saving it.
So I emailed the appropriate support people three times, and got no response. I finally caved in and purchased the game at the local Worst Buy a second time -- yes, I purchased a second license to play the game I already had the right to because my media was destroyed. And guess what -- I discovered after researching it further (and playing a couple mighty multiplayer rounds of AVP2) that the media will not be replaced for free beyond 90 days of purchase. You have to pay them something like $13. $13 for a CD? C'mon, the cost of the media, shipping materials, and postage would cost less than $1. $13 was more than half the price of the game at Worst Buy anyway.
What right do they have to prevent my legal use of a produce I already have a legit license for?.. Sounds a lot like the MPAA, if you ask me. Oh, that DVD you bought is region 2? Sorry, we won't allow you to watch that on a region 1 DVD player. You'll have to buy it again, this time for region 1.
That's why I now have AVP2 -- purchased legally twice cracked for NO CD.
It's called a lifetime subscription. Those of us who bought in back when the subscription was $99 got a great deal. I own 4 tivos, and they all have lifetime service on them. Cheaper in the long run.
There are two phonegaim specific files that are not in the latest tarball, off linspire.com *or* phonegaim.com.
linphone.h, and osipua.h. During compiling:
In file included from gtkblist.c:51: sipphone.h:3:26: linphonecore.h: No such file or directory sipphone.h:4:20: osipua.h: No such file or directory
Hrm.. Lets see.... GPL software mods... missing pieces of the mods... sound familiar? I'm not going to start hopping up and down like a crazed gully dwarf screaming "GPL VIOLATION!", but has anyone else successfully built phonegaim from source? I'm looking into starting to use SIP phone service (asterisk, vonage, sipphone.com), and this was one of the options I was looking at.
Some spammer decided to joe-job me. Very annoyed. At some point, my domain that they're spoofing mail from is going to get blacklisted -- not because mail is coming from it, but because it appears to be. I havn't seen any spamcop reports or anything similar, but I've seen metric fucktonnes of Win32 worm messages coming into email addresses that never have existed at the same domain that's being joe-jobbed. I really need an antivirus solution built into sendmail. Spamassassin works for 99% of my spam, but these god damn worms are driving me absoltuely insane.
There isn't really all that much you can do about being joe-jobbed, 9 times out of 10 the "admins" for the zombified machine doesn't understand that I'm not the spammer, eventhough I received the bounce for the spam.
Anyone have any good results at trying to get a joe-job to stop?
The image has been color "corrected". If you whip out the gimp, and use the Color Balance tool and ramp everything everything twards yellow, the woman's skin tone on her face, and hands is corrected.
It looks like they had poor lighting for the photo, didn't like the off-white background behind the set, and tried to "fix" it.
As to the quality of the image in the set, it's a fripping jpeg. It's going to look like shit.
Why don't they put some contacts on the card?
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The kind of contacts I'm talking about would be the ones that measure the resistance across two contacts a few mm apart, in order to use the card your finger(s) have to be on the contacts, otherwise your card doesn't send or receive RFID crap.
Oh the typical uneducated slashdot reply. Guess what. It's been done, and can be (note: I did not say IS) 100% legal. This DELL Laptop I'm using to post now is what is called an IBM/PC Clone. Know why? Because ages ago, some guys at Compaq reverse engineered the IBM PC BIOS, wrote a spec, and engineered a 100% compatible BIOS. In the end, they knocked IBM off their PC king-of-the-mountain rift, and here we are today.
So in other words, there are 100% legal ways for manufacturer B to produce hardware that runs software for manufacturer A's hardware. Otherwise, you'd be stuck buying Toyota gasoline, oil, windshield washer fluid,... Don't forget, Lexmark wants this with their toner cartridges that have chips inside them. They lost.
You just don't get it, do you.
That is a quote from the 1995 (dear god it's old) movie Hackers. Get your geek on man, seriously.
FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely -nothing-, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!
The most common place I've seen "antibubbles" (a globe of liquid floating ontop of other liquid, separated by air) has been in puddles of rain water when it's raining, and sometimes inside my 2lt bottle of coke. These "antibubbles" are really just small balls of liquid, that float and roll around ontop of another liquid, until surface tension gives way.
MusicBrainz::TRM does that. Also, there was the project Songprint (now defunct). The perl bindings for TRM (the part that listens to the song and makes a fingerprint) are currently broken. I can't manage to get them to work:/
The developers of musicbrains hang out on irc.freenode.net/#musicbrainz. They'll tell you to use libtunepimp, which can be found in their CVS repository on musicbrainz.org
There's an extremely cool website that is being developed by the audioscrobbler folks, Last.fm. It's a personalized radio station. You pick what songs you like, and it learns what you like. Very, very cool.
Last I checked, Half-Life was based on the Quake2 engine, which id software made, and released all kinds of developers kits for.
They already covered it, methinks.
I, 23 years old 17 days ago have had a computer around me for as long as I can remember. My first computers were a TI99/4A (with speech synthesizer!) and a IBM PCjr.
I also happen to suffer from a fine motor deficency in my hands. You heard it right: If I'm ever your neuro surgeon, you had better find someone else.
That's why I type. I can type fast enough to get me through everything. I turned in typewritten assignments in Display Write, and Clerics Works.
I played wolf3d, half life, all the quakes, duke nukem and duke nukem 3d, and gobs of RPGs, all the baldur's gates, neverwinter nights, chrono trigger, secret of mana, and one cannot forget adventure on my TI99/4A.
My handwriting is chicken scratch, if someone forged my signature on a check the bank wouldn't know because my signature changes every time I write it. I havn't written cursive since elementary school/jr high, and I don't want to. I can't read my own handwriting, so I grafiti everything in to a handspring (now palm) visor prism with minstrel modem.
And I'm crippled how?
Did anyone else misparse the article title and summary as Mentos?
I was visualizing someone putting a strawberry Mento on the scanner, and pulling up whatever.
Then I began to think -- well jesus, all the mentos look the same, how freaking secure is that? And, just what the hell do you do if you *eat* that mento? Your data is unretrievable!
The remote scheduling is done through your Manage My Account on the "My" section.com. You use the same username and password you used to sign up service on your tivo. If you didn't do that and went through the website, then you only need your tivo's serial number. Once you're signed up, you're set.
# Make sure you've got a Duke3D
ATOMIC EDITION cd-rom. YOU NEED THIS VERSION. The shareware data files DO NOT WORK AT THIS TIME.
I wonder what is so special about the atomic edition? I already own duke3d, (not the atomic edition, but a full, store-purchased copy.. probally v1.3 something or other) and don't really want to buy it again.
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(Just visualise it: all the packets on both Internets all come together to chant "Speech! Speech! Speech!". Aaahhh.)
I'd like to thank all the people who helped me get where I am today, all the script kiddies, my coworkers, O'Reilly & Associates, Linus Torvolds for making Linux, Bill Gates for making Windows, and all the really smart people out there at MIT for making X11.
We've come along way from Athena widgets, nobody in their right mind uses Motif anymore, and everything is a beautiful drab KDE and Gnome gray. We've had SCO try to poison our spirits, but that which does not kill you only makes you stronger.
Way to go folks. You've done well. (note to mods: this is funny, look at my uid)
Not a C coder myself, (sticking mainly to perl).. I've just got to ask, what are SSA trees, and what benefit do they serve?
Hah. My most recent debit card is *blank* on the signature line. My most recent credit card says "PLEASE SEE ID" on the signature line. Nobody *ever* asks to see ID. Nobody *ever* asks why the card is blank. Never. Infact, the entire 3 years time I've had card with no signature on them (blank, or with "PLEASE SEE ID"), I've been asked less than 10 times. When the cashier doesn't ask for my ID, what do I do? I don't say anything. But when they *do* ask me for my ID, I thank them. "Thank you for asking. You're one of the few people who actually do check. Thank you." I hope that thanking them so earnstly that they check the next person in line too.
My father who got sent to locksmithing training by the Department of Defense was describing how you drill into the door of a safe to open it if you've somehow lost the combination. Basically you get a piece of metal that is the size of the door from the manufacturer -- it has marks on it where to drill. You drill according to the directions, and then fiddle with the inner workings of the locking mechanism to move the tumblers where they should be in order to open the safe, and to change the combination.
The bad part is that once you've done this, to make the safe secure again you put a steel ball bearing the size of the hole in the hole, and then weld it in there. There is absolutely no way you're going to be able to drill through that steel. Any drill bit you try to drill through it is just going to dance on it, and end up breaking the drill bit.
So I guess in that case, safes that have been forcibly opened using the above method are safer than ones that havn't.
What if you scratch it? What if you lose it?
.. Sounds a lot like the MPAA, if you ask me. Oh, that DVD you bought is region 2? Sorry, we won't allow you to watch that on a region 1 DVD player. You'll have to buy it again, this time for region 1.
I learned the hard way. I purchased Alien vs Predator 2 -- a kick ass game. I was playing it in my shuttle SV24, and accidentially gave the box a swift kick while getting more comfortable in my chair. Then came the horrible sound of the CDROM drive scratching the bejesus out of Disc 1 of AVP2. There was no saving it.
So I emailed the appropriate support people three times, and got no response. I finally caved in and purchased the game at the local Worst Buy a second time -- yes, I purchased a second license to play the game I already had the right to because my media was destroyed. And guess what -- I discovered after researching it further (and playing a couple mighty multiplayer rounds of AVP2) that the media will not be replaced for free beyond 90 days of purchase. You have to pay them something like $13. $13 for a CD? C'mon, the cost of the media, shipping materials, and postage would cost less than $1. $13 was more than half the price of the game at Worst Buy anyway.
What right do they have to prevent my legal use of a produce I already have a legit license for?
That's why I now have AVP2 -- purchased legally twice cracked for NO CD.
It's called a lifetime subscription. Those of us who bought in back when the subscription was $99 got a great deal. I own 4 tivos, and they all have lifetime service on them. Cheaper in the long run.
linphone.h, and osipua.h. During compiling:Hrm.. Lets see.... GPL software mods
I'd love to do that :( I'm picking up my email via fetchmail, from a qmail catch-all.
Some spammer decided to joe-job me. Very annoyed. At some point, my domain that they're spoofing mail from is going to get blacklisted -- not because mail is coming from it, but because it appears to be. I havn't seen any spamcop reports or anything similar, but I've seen metric fucktonnes of Win32 worm messages coming into email addresses that never have existed at the same domain that's being joe-jobbed. I really need an antivirus solution built into sendmail. Spamassassin works for 99% of my spam, but these god damn worms are driving me absoltuely insane.
There isn't really all that much you can do about being joe-jobbed, 9 times out of 10 the "admins" for the zombified machine doesn't understand that I'm not the spammer, eventhough I received the bounce for the spam.
Anyone have any good results at trying to get a joe-job to stop?
Right on brothah. *grin*
The image has been color "corrected". If you whip out the gimp, and use the Color Balance tool and ramp everything everything twards yellow, the woman's skin tone on her face, and hands is corrected.
It looks like they had poor lighting for the photo, didn't like the off-white background behind the set, and tried to "fix" it.
As to the quality of the image in the set, it's a fripping jpeg. It's going to look like shit.
The kind of contacts I'm talking about would be the ones that measure the resistance across two contacts a few mm apart, in order to use the card your finger(s) have to be on the contacts, otherwise your card doesn't send or receive RFID crap.
Raven's my coworker. Quite techincally, she rocks. and oh, that tit size comment? ... (a direct quote)
"Fuck you ".
And yes, she's talking about You
Oh the typical uneducated slashdot reply. Guess what. It's been done, and can be (note: I did not say IS) 100% legal. This DELL Laptop I'm using to post now is what is called an IBM/PC Clone. Know why? Because ages ago, some guys at Compaq reverse engineered the IBM PC BIOS, wrote a spec, and engineered a 100% compatible BIOS. In the end, they knocked IBM off their PC king-of-the-mountain rift, and here we are today.
... Don't forget, Lexmark wants this with their toner cartridges that have chips inside them. They lost.
So in other words, there are 100% legal ways for manufacturer B to produce hardware that runs software for manufacturer A's hardware. Otherwise, you'd be stuck buying Toyota gasoline, oil, windshield washer fluid,
You just don't get it, do you. That is a quote from the 1995 (dear god it's old) movie Hackers. Get your geek on man, seriously.
FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely -nothing-, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!
The most common place I've seen "antibubbles" (a globe of liquid floating ontop of other liquid, separated by air) has been in puddles of rain water when it's raining, and sometimes inside my 2lt bottle of coke. These "antibubbles" are really just small balls of liquid, that float and roll around ontop of another liquid, until surface tension gives way.
MusicBrainz::TRM does that. Also, there was the project Songprint (now defunct). The perl bindings for TRM (the part that listens to the song and makes a fingerprint) are currently broken. I can't manage to get them to work :/
The developers of musicbrains hang out on irc.freenode.net/#musicbrainz. They'll tell you to use libtunepimp, which can be found in their CVS repository on musicbrainz.org
There's an extremely cool website that is being developed by the audioscrobbler folks, Last.fm. It's a personalized radio station. You pick what songs you like, and it learns what you like. Very, very cool.
Get a load of all the uses for Duck Tape:
and
Last I checked, Half-Life was based on the Quake2 engine, which id software made, and released all kinds of developers kits for. They already covered it, methinks.
toslink cables have a bend-friendly plastic core, eh? Why not use real networking fiber?
I, 23 years old 17 days ago have had a computer around me for as long as I can remember. My first computers were a TI99/4A (with speech synthesizer!) and a IBM PCjr. I also happen to suffer from a fine motor deficency in my hands. You heard it right: If I'm ever your neuro surgeon, you had better find someone else. That's why I type. I can type fast enough to get me through everything. I turned in typewritten assignments in Display Write, and Clerics Works. I played wolf3d, half life, all the quakes, duke nukem and duke nukem 3d, and gobs of RPGs, all the baldur's gates, neverwinter nights, chrono trigger, secret of mana, and one cannot forget adventure on my TI99/4A. My handwriting is chicken scratch, if someone forged my signature on a check the bank wouldn't know because my signature changes every time I write it. I havn't written cursive since elementary school/jr high, and I don't want to. I can't read my own handwriting, so I grafiti everything in to a handspring (now palm) visor prism with minstrel modem. And I'm crippled how?
Did anyone else misparse the article title and summary as Mentos?
I was visualizing someone putting a strawberry Mento on the scanner, and pulling up whatever.
Then I began to think -- well jesus, all the mentos look the same, how freaking secure is that? And, just what the hell do you do if you *eat* that mento? Your data is unretrievable!
The remote scheduling is done through your Manage My Account on the "My" section.com. You use the same username and password you used to sign up service on your tivo. If you didn't do that and went through the website, then you only need your tivo's serial number. Once you're signed up, you're set.