He does have UID 5, so it seems legit. Unless he hacked that uid too offcourse:-)
Re:Sorry to be a downer, but it's important.
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Sorry if I offended you.
I really didn't mean to be insensitive.
I thought my reference was pretty neutral. It certainly wasn't meant to be a "fun little tsunami reference". I was trying to by cynical about the Indoor Island. But obviously that didn't work:-)
Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I can assure you that I take this disaster in Asia very seriously.
Now you have stuff like gstreamer being developed, but that's desktop stuff, not audio developement.
As I understand it, Gstreamer is a multimedia framework, and as a framework it would be IDEAL to build Wired/Ardour-like software on top of it.
When changes are made to the framework, they would also work for the software on top of it.
For example, all plugins written for Gstreamer could work for the software you build on it. And when other people make Gstreamer plugins for their gstreamer-based software, those plugins would also work for you!
Words as "modular" and "flexible" come to mind
Now, i'm not a hacker, i'm a software user, so I might be talking out of my ass here. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Because this "rebranding" generates a large amount of publicity they could never buy.
Even on Slashdot, a lot of people didn't know about Vivisimo.
Now you do.
The money they put in the rebranding is FAR less then wath this amount of publicity would cost to buy.
Interactive teletext in Belgium (and netherlands?)
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I'm not sure if this was a joint Belgian/Dutch project or not, but in the early 90ties we had Interactive Teletext here in Belgium.
You could send email, lookup numbers in the Yellow Pages or send a Fax.
It was called INFOGATE. It was a bit of a mix between Teletext/Ceefax and Minitel.
This is how it worked: - call a toll-free number and get a pagenumber - Turn on your TV, switch to the INFOGATE-channel and go to to the teletext page you got over the phone - Leave your remote alone - Now use the phone-keypad as your keyboard! - So cool! I actually sent some email and some faxes through this system. And it worked.
You could of course watch what other people were doing if you could find their "page". But you could not participate in their session.
They cancelled it because it was too expensive and unpopular. It was unpopular because it was pretty complicated for the computer illeterate.
A lot of accounting and file-management software in this profession is heavily integrated with Wordperfect 5.1 (and Novell). This software is also VERY expensive. So why buy the new version if the old one works great.
They provide this interesting tool: http://www.geocode.com/modules.php?name=Tes tDrive_ Eagle
Would it be possible to write a script that correlates al the data we gather with the TeleAtlas database? If we assume that the TeleAtles-database is correct of course.
Is suppose you could even write a script that drains their database (querying every adress in the telephonebook and storing the responses in a databse:-)
You could argue that the poor could use these cheap computers to help them get food, water etc.
For example: If you give poor farmers in Africa, India,... computers, they could use them to improve there farming and harvest more food or to make a better profit selling their harvest. This is much better than just giving them food. Computers could help solve THE PROBLEM instead of just curing the symptoms.
However, there are many other problems: - Lot's of poor people can't read/write. - If they can read/write, can they often can't read/write English - in some poor countries there is a power shortage - Who will educate all these people on how to use computers?
It is fairly easy to hack this modem and change it into an ADSL-router + DHCP server.
I've done it 10+ times for friends and i never had any problems. I can seriously recommend this hack. A router for the price of a modem! ANd much more practical than setting up an old 486 linux-box as router.
The modem doesn't run linux, but you can do portforwarding etc.
Remember: you have to know what you're doing and this stuff will certainly void the warranty. I've also never tried this hack with a thompson-branded modem.
We're trying to make a similar thing based on linux. (it's called DAVE/DINA and you can read all about that strange name -and more- over here). I must admit, we were pretty surprised with this version of XP. It looks really cool (we haven't tried it though).
It made us realize we have to speed up our work on DAVE/DINA. So we're planning our first ISO-release this month.
It will include: - Watching TV - RECORDING TV (only europ i think) - Playing/grabbing music - Music Database - Photo gallery - playing/grabbing DVD - playing DIVX
but a lot of work needs to be done. We hope to lure some contributors with this release.
But you can already start to help us now: Visit our website, and comment on our plans (so we know what we're doing right and what we're doing wrong), or make us a cool new logo
no I remember those. I also remember some pyramid-shaped ones.
IRC, Intel was afraid of the iMAc. They thought it would affect the sales of the 'dull' PC's and so they made some cool cool cases as an example to the PC-makers.
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Did YOU find the naked chick?
Yahoo has it (VoIP via Yahoo messenger).
Yahoo is a search company.
Why shouldn't Google have it?
Maybe they will add OGG-support now, just to be sure they don't make the same mistake twice and miss the boat again.
Well, it probably won't happen.
But I DO think that if there ever wasa time for users to let Sony know they want OGG support, it is NOW!
On the left machine in the back he was coding windows1.0
:-)
The right machine was his inspiration
He does have UID 5, so it seems legit. Unless he hacked that uid too offcourse :-)
Sorry if I offended you.
:-)
I really didn't mean to be insensitive.
I thought my reference was pretty neutral. It certainly wasn't meant to be a "fun little tsunami reference". I was trying to by cynical about the Indoor Island. But obviously that didn't work
Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I can assure you that I take this disaster in Asia very seriously.
Now you have stuff like gstreamer being developed, but that's desktop stuff, not audio developement.
As I understand it, Gstreamer is a multimedia framework, and as a framework it would be IDEAL to build Wired/Ardour-like software on top of it.
When changes are made to the framework, they would also work for the software on top of it.
For example, all plugins written for Gstreamer could work for the software you build on it. And when other people make Gstreamer plugins for their gstreamer-based software, those plugins would also work for you!
Words as "modular" and "flexible" come to mind
Now, i'm not a hacker, i'm a software user, so I might be talking out of my ass here. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I wish these existed when I was younger. So cool!
http://www.hokeyspokes.com/
I can't wait to have kids so i can buy them stuff like this
Because this "rebranding" generates a large amount of publicity they could never buy.
Even on Slashdot, a lot of people didn't know about Vivisimo.
Now you do.
The money they put in the rebranding is FAR less then wath this amount of publicity would cost to buy.
I'm not sure if this was a joint Belgian/Dutch project or not, but in the early 90ties we had Interactive Teletext here in Belgium.
You could send email, lookup numbers in the Yellow Pages or send a Fax.
It was called INFOGATE. It was a bit of a mix between Teletext/Ceefax and Minitel.
This is how it worked:
- call a toll-free number and get a pagenumber
- Turn on your TV, switch to the INFOGATE-channel and go to to the teletext page you got over the phone
- Leave your remote alone
- Now use the phone-keypad as your keyboard!
- So cool! I actually sent some email and some faxes through this system. And it worked.
You could of course watch what other people were doing if you could find their "page". But you could not participate in their session.
They cancelled it because it was too expensive and unpopular. It was unpopular because it was pretty complicated for the computer illeterate.
don't ask, I have a split personality
kak
A lot of accounting and file-management software in this profession is heavily integrated with Wordperfect 5.1 (and Novell). This software is also VERY expensive. So why buy the new version if the old one works great.
A lot of people who think photoshop is great forget that they didn't pay for their copy BECAUSE IT IS EXPENSIVE.
You get what you pay for. It's that simple. And considering The Gimp is free it's a GREAT DEAL!
If they would be honest A LOT of home users SHOULD use the GIMP instead of using an illegal version of Photoshop.
TeleAtlas is a competitor of NavTECH
They provide this interesting tool:
http://www.geocode.com/modules.php?name=Te
Would it be possible to write a script that correlates al the data we gather with the TeleAtlas database? If we assume that the TeleAtles-database is correct of course.
Is suppose you could even write a script that drains their database (querying every adress in the telephonebook and storing the responses in a databse
You could argue that the poor could use these cheap computers to help them get food, water etc.
... computers, they could use them to improve there farming and harvest more food or to make a better profit selling their harvest.
For example: If you give poor farmers in Africa, India,
This is much better than just giving them food. Computers could help solve THE PROBLEM instead of just curing the symptoms.
However, there are many other problems:
- Lot's of poor people can't read/write.
- If they can read/write, can they often can't read/write English
- in some poor countries there is a power shortage
- Who will educate all these people on how to use computers?
Ok, so it's not a 'hack' per se. But it surely isn't documented in the ISP's manual
What password are you reffering to? I did need one to go to expert mode. (my provider is Skynet).
Where I live, most people have an Alcatel Speedtouch Home ADSL modem (currently sold by Thompson).
It is fairly easy to hack this modem and change it into an ADSL-router + DHCP server.
I've done it 10+ times for friends and i never had any problems. I can seriously recommend this hack. A router for the price of a modem! ANd much more practical than setting up an old 486 linux-box as router. The modem doesn't run linux, but you can do portforwarding etc.
Remember: you have to know what you're doing and this stuff will certainly void the warranty. I've also never tried this hack with a thompson-branded modem.
a few howto's:
This is very effective.
She will want to organise your life.
Resistance is futile.
I hope this doesn't mean you can only use it for listening to AC-DC songs.
"apestaart" is dutch for "monkey tail", the tail of a monkey.
It's also the name of this sign: @
So in English @ = "at" and in dutch @ = "apestaart"
This is reflected in our logo.
Dave/Dina is similar to MythTV
:-)
At the moment MythTV has beter TV-options, better layout and a better logo
DaveDina has more AUDIO options, at the moment.
We're trying to make a similar thing based on linux. (it's called DAVE/DINA and you can read all about that strange name -and more- over here).
I must admit, we were pretty surprised with this version of XP. It looks really cool (we haven't tried it though).
It made us realize we have to speed up our work on DAVE/DINA. So we're planning our first ISO-release this month.
It will include:
- Watching TV
- RECORDING TV (only europ i think)
- Playing/grabbing music
- Music Database
- Photo gallery
- playing/grabbing DVD
- playing DIVX
but a lot of work needs to be done. We hope to lure some contributors with this release.
But you can already start to help us now: Visit our website, and comment on our plans (so we know what we're doing right and what we're doing wrong), or make us a cool new logo
at
http://davedina.apestaart.org
we're trying to make a linux-box that seamlessly integrates every bit of software needed for a multimedia box.
Development has been slowing down lately. But we HAVE a working model in our living room.
So give us a bit incentive to keep working on this project: subscribe to our sourceforge mailing-list and give us your comments/ideas.
Thanks!
no I remember those. I also remember some pyramid-shaped ones.
IRC, Intel was afraid of the iMAc. They thought it would affect the sales of the 'dull' PC's and so they made some cool cool cases as an example to the PC-makers.