Now, when I was young - like in the eighties, when computers cost a fortune and could hardly do much at all - we actually did ASCII art on typewriters. It's possible, but damn hard - one typo and there goes hours worth of typing.
I wonder if I have some of those pics still laying around. Hm.
I'm not denying there's been developments with regards to size and transfer rates. However, as I said, we're still using spinning disks.
I guess you could compare it to the automobile industry - which has stagnated in much the same sense (if not for the same reasons). While modern cars give more mileage pr. gallon than cars 20-30 years ago, it's still essentially the same old tech (petroleum products that go "bang"...) - despite the presence of newer, more economical and more environmentally friendly alternatives.
I think we need a radical shift in R&D focus - towards physically smaller, higher capacity drives with a much higher stability and fault tolerance. My opinion is that moving away from the existing hard-drive technology is necessary to accomplish that.
Solid state drives need not necessarily be the end-all-be-all. But it's a good path to explore.
Why the tinkering with old technology? With the development that the rest of the computer industry undergoes (ref. Moores Law) - why has the development in the HD department been in a state of virtual stand-still? Except for speed and size (and now noise level) there is pretty much nil difference between HDs now and 40 years ago!
I mean, come on!! It's 2001, and computers still have moving parts? Why not ditch this ancient tech and pour some more $$ into developing affordable solid-state disks?
Yep, good quality for a beta product, and quite accurate as well. Lacking some functionality, like refining searches etc. (akin to Altavistas "find similar" option).
Recognizing images by their name is rather inaccurate though, I wonder if there's some manual editing involved, or if they use ImageMagick or something to try and determine the pictures contents by pattern matching;) (more than 40% greens == probably a landscape photo...)
I've got
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
Attached to the headers of all my web pages, and they aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
But they're staying in Office XP, yet not in IE6? I thought Office XP used the IE component for rendering HTML?
I've scraped together a load of miscellaneous hardware from closets/drawers around my computer room, and am in the process of turning the resulting P100 system into a home stereo (minus the amplifier that is). Old desktop case is just a plus - fits nicely in the stereorack along with the amplifier. Stuff in a soundcard and a CD-ROM drive (cheap-o thing, no speed needed), and you have a pretty neat CD player.
Add a hard-drive, Linux/BSD and mpg123, and you have an MP3 player.
Add ALMB or similar software, and you have an interface that can be controlled via IR or a small keypad. With LCD displays and keypads from Matrix Orbital you have one mean looking stereo!
Their ISP nukes their ass every time they SPAM, they still don't get it. They have their mailboxes burned to cinders with flames, they still don't get it. What difference does an RFC that will never be read by anyone not reading this slashdot article make?
Face it - as long as there are idiots who really think that pyramid schemes work, viagra is the best thing since sliced bread, and that you can have all the pr0n in the world by sending some guy your CC#, there will be SPAM.
Not to say we shouldn't make life hell for'em of course.
Sorry to rain on your parade, dude, but our government is about as left wing as Hitler was.
Well, according to some (including Adolf himself) Mr. Hitler was indeed left-wing. Extreme left at that. I believe he referred to himself as a "national-socialist" or however you'd translate that...
It suggests that the majority of money spent, and investigations carried out, only helps the largely U.S.-based content filtering industry.
I dare say that that the US has the only content filtering industry - I can not think of a single non-US software company making filtering software (unless you count firewalls and such that is). I may be wrong. In fact, I usually am, but it's amazing how far you can get with ignorance and prejudice. Nuff said.
Couple that with US also having the worlds largest porn industry, and you more or less sum up americans: perfect little conservative christians on the outside, sleazy pr0n-surfing degenerates like the rest of us when they think noone's looking.
Bearing that in mind, I'm not at all surprised that grassroots response to the aussie pr0n filters weren't all they'd hoped for. Heck, If I found this huge pr0n site that'd slipped through the filters, I'd start downloading like hell - not report it to the government. I mean, come on!
Yeh, and if you put your nose 1/2 inch from the monitor, defocus your eyes and stare for like 20 minutes, a perfect 3D image of a nude ET appears. Yep, it's actually martian pr0n!
Or use SpamCop to parse the headers and automatically route the spam to the abuse department of the ISP where it originated.
Yes, but the issue here was squeezing spammers for money, to do that you need their identity - which in turn the ISP must disclose to you - which in turn leads to the ISP violating quite a handful of laws regarding privacy and appropriate use of server logs.
I guess you could file a suit against a "John Doe" and have the court issue the necessary orders to obtain the identity, of course.
IANAL, and I am a bit curious as to what means I - as a non-US citizen - have to retaliate against spammers using the US legal system. Our country doesn't have those kinds of laws, and given that most of the SPAM passing through our networks come from the US anyways, that wouldn't help much.
Can I file a complaint agains a US citizen violating a US law outside of the US?
Headers can only be forged up to the point where the SMTP servers take over handling of the message. From there, the SPAM will be tagged with the servers "Received: " lines etc.
Of course, when forged headers are used (as is mostly the case) you rely on the cooperation of the ISP to obtain the users identity.
Cauce has a pretty good tutorial on examining mail headers for useful information, if you're interested.
In general, I've found that inkjet printers (independent of manufacturer) are poorly supported on Linux. Lasers usually have common command languages that make them easy to support (PS*, PCL*), while every inkjet manufacturer seems to make up their own.
I am aware that ghostscript "hacks" exist for a lot of them, but in my experience they're mostly just that - hacks.
Dealing with printer drivers on Linux, I've had the most success using the CUPS printer system. It replaces the standard Unix lp* tools, adds a neat web interface for printer configuration, ships with a heap of drivers supporting most of available laser printers. Support for spooling via samba is also possible.
Talk about beating a dead horse... I seriously doubt MS can screw napster more than RIAA has already done, time to go looking for alternatives. For a start, try OpenNap - gnutella would be nice without all the pr0n, but hey.
Wow! Pneumatic tubes must be exactly what The RFC 1149 project needs. Imagine using these for LAN and corporate networks - add a few hundred pigeons, a barrel of grease and voila! High-speed CPIP communication.
Yup, I'd imagine Carmack has a thing or two to teach those amateurs at NASA. Bet they'd be real interested in the portable rocket launcher, for instance. And I bet the US Army would be thrilled to lay their hands on a BFG2K.
How can one mutation give you an eye? It can't--thousands upon thousands of mutations are needed, but they cannot happen in one generation, or even in a hundred! Therefore, how can an eye ever evolve?
Oh, not the old "evolution cannot make something as perfect as an eye" story. It's been chanted by creationists since day one, and debunked over and over again.
First of all, the human eye is not "the perfect instrument". Compared to other animals eyes, it really sucks - what with the optical nerve making a blindspot in the center of each eye, poor light reception, etc.
Second, there are species or fossiles of species which have some sort of "eye" in all its evolutionary stages - from a simple cluster of photo-sensitive cells, to fully functional eyes far more advanced than the human one. Just because amoebas didn't wake up one morning with fully evolved eyes, doesn't mean they would not eventually evolve eye-like instruments.
Please realize:
Humans are in no way perfect
Humans are not the ultimate goal - we will evolve or be obsoleted
Hard to explain != God(tm) did it
If you find evolution hard to believe, please sit down and think about what you are asking us non-creationists to believe! If religion wasn't so common, you'd be labeled "insane".
I'm not saying I alone know the whole truth (as do you and most other religious fanatics), I simply subscribe to the theory that holds most credibility. God is not a credible theory.
IRC is not for me. Used to chat alot, and I actually still use irc.openprojects.net when I need a quick answer to a problem. But my regular hangouts from the highschool days are still mostly populated by highschool kids - and we all know what they're like:)
It's true - without an interest in IT beyond making quick bucks in an inflated market, you don't stand a chance. Most of what I know I've learned through playing with software that I really don't need, but I wanted to see what made it tick. Always eager to learn new stuff - wether or not it's related to what I do at work. Many times, my "toys" have come in handy when a work-related problem needed solving.
You don't get that "edge" if you simply learn what you need to stay employed, and you don't have any interest in computers beyond that. A true IT workers day does not end at 16:30.
Believe it or not - even reading Slashdot has been a great help for me professionaly, as I pick up on new "toys" to play with that in the end turn out to be a great help when solving work related problems.
An unhealthy side-effect, of course, is that I have become an anti-social geek, addicted to Redbull, and nobody want to talk to me anymore. But hey, it's a small sacrifice;)
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I wonder if I have some of those pics still laying around. Hm.
I guess you could compare it to the automobile industry - which has stagnated in much the same sense (if not for the same reasons). While modern cars give more mileage pr. gallon than cars 20-30 years ago, it's still essentially the same old tech (petroleum products that go "bang"...) - despite the presence of newer, more economical and more environmentally friendly alternatives.
I think we need a radical shift in R&D focus - towards physically smaller, higher capacity drives with a much higher stability and fault tolerance. My opinion is that moving away from the existing hard-drive technology is necessary to accomplish that.
Solid state drives need not necessarily be the end-all-be-all. But it's a good path to explore.
Hope that clears it up a bit?
I mean, come on!! It's 2001, and computers still have moving parts? Why not ditch this ancient tech and pour some more $$ into developing affordable solid-state disks?
Recognizing images by their name is rather inaccurate though, I wonder if there's some manual editing involved, or if they use ImageMagick or something to try and determine the pictures contents by pattern matching ;) (more than 40% greens == probably a landscape photo...)
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
Attached to the headers of all my web pages, and they aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
But they're staying in Office XP, yet not in IE6? I thought Office XP used the IE component for rendering HTML?
Add a hard-drive, Linux/BSD and mpg123, and you have an MP3 player.
Add ALMB or similar software, and you have an interface that can be controlled via IR or a small keypad. With LCD displays and keypads from Matrix Orbital you have one mean looking stereo!
- "Random noise" - randomly copy from
/dev/urandom instead of writing the actual file
- "Motion blur" - bit rot on very fast disks
- "JPEG compression" - lossy compression for your data!
- "Mosaic" - increase fragmentation
- "Colorize" - rot13 all
.so files
- "Watermark" - digitally sign all files (also system files)
How about just making a toolkit for porting Gimp plugins?Face it - as long as there are idiots who really think that pyramid schemes work, viagra is the best thing since sliced bread, and that you can have all the pr0n in the world by sending some guy your CC#, there will be SPAM.
Not to say we shouldn't make life hell for'em of course.
Well, according to some (including Adolf himself) Mr. Hitler was indeed left-wing. Extreme left at that. I believe he referred to himself as a "national-socialist" or however you'd translate that...
I dare say that that the US has the only content filtering industry - I can not think of a single non-US software company making filtering software (unless you count firewalls and such that is). I may be wrong. In fact, I usually am, but it's amazing how far you can get with ignorance and prejudice. Nuff said.
Couple that with US also having the worlds largest porn industry, and you more or less sum up americans: perfect little conservative christians on the outside, sleazy pr0n-surfing degenerates like the rest of us when they think noone's looking.
Bearing that in mind, I'm not at all surprised that grassroots response to the aussie pr0n filters weren't all they'd hoped for. Heck, If I found this huge pr0n site that'd slipped through the filters, I'd start downloading like hell - not report it to the government. I mean, come on!
Then again, It could be just me. Usually is.
Sigh.
Seriously, this is crap!
Yes, but the issue here was squeezing spammers for money, to do that you need their identity - which in turn the ISP must disclose to you - which in turn leads to the ISP violating quite a handful of laws regarding privacy and appropriate use of server logs.
I guess you could file a suit against a "John Doe" and have the court issue the necessary orders to obtain the identity, of course.
Can I file a complaint agains a US citizen violating a US law outside of the US?
Of course, when forged headers are used (as is mostly the case) you rely on the cooperation of the ISP to obtain the users identity.
Cauce has a pretty good tutorial on examining mail headers for useful information, if you're interested.
I am aware that ghostscript "hacks" exist for a lot of them, but in my experience they're mostly just that - hacks.
Dealing with printer drivers on Linux, I've had the most success using the CUPS printer system. It replaces the standard Unix lp* tools, adds a neat web interface for printer configuration, ships with a heap of drivers supporting most of available laser printers. Support for spooling via samba is also possible.
Talk about beating a dead horse... I seriously doubt MS can screw napster more than RIAA has already done, time to go looking for alternatives. For a start, try OpenNap - gnutella would be nice without all the pr0n, but hey.
Wow! Pneumatic tubes must be exactly what The RFC 1149 project needs. Imagine using these for LAN and corporate networks - add a few hundred pigeons, a barrel of grease and voila! High-speed CPIP communication.
Yup, I'd imagine Carmack has a thing or two to teach those amateurs at NASA. Bet they'd be real interested in the portable rocket launcher, for instance. And I bet the US Army would be thrilled to lay their hands on a BFG2K.
Hehe - I can picture the headlines:
System engineer pecked to death, server room burried in pigeon droppings
- Packet loss - hunting season could cause major disruptions to services.
- Lack of broadcast/multicast support
- Limited packet size
- Mandatory source-routing could be a problem (I always configure my Linux kernel to drop source routed packages)
- Mating season could cause abnormal round trip delays
On the positive side, packet collisions are history - unless someone implements CPIP in a LAN that is...Oh, not the old "evolution cannot make something as perfect as an eye" story. It's been chanted by creationists since day one, and debunked over and over again.
First of all, the human eye is not "the perfect instrument". Compared to other animals eyes, it really sucks - what with the optical nerve making a blindspot in the center of each eye, poor light reception, etc.
Second, there are species or fossiles of species which have some sort of "eye" in all its evolutionary stages - from a simple cluster of photo-sensitive cells, to fully functional eyes far more advanced than the human one. Just because amoebas didn't wake up one morning with fully evolved eyes, doesn't mean they would not eventually evolve eye-like instruments.
Please realize:
- Humans are in no way perfect
- Humans are not the ultimate goal - we will evolve or be obsoleted
- Hard to explain != God(tm) did it
- If you find evolution hard to believe, please sit down and think about what you are asking us non-creationists to believe! If religion wasn't so common, you'd be labeled "insane".
I'm not saying I alone know the whole truth (as do you and most other religious fanatics), I simply subscribe to the theory that holds most credibility. God is not a credible theory.IRC is not for me. Used to chat alot, and I actually still use irc.openprojects.net when I need a quick answer to a problem. But my regular hangouts from the highschool days are still mostly populated by highschool kids - and we all know what they're like :)
You don't get that "edge" if you simply learn what you need to stay employed, and you don't have any interest in computers beyond that. A true IT workers day does not end at 16:30.
Believe it or not - even reading Slashdot has been a great help for me professionaly, as I pick up on new "toys" to play with that in the end turn out to be a great help when solving work related problems.
An unhealthy side-effect, of course, is that I have become an anti-social geek, addicted to Redbull, and nobody want to talk to me anymore. But hey, it's a small sacrifice ;)
Now, that is kindof a harsh statement, don't you think? ;)