Maybe I didn't poke through the documentation enough, but I never figured out how to make cups accept remote jobs. I figured it'd be a snap to get a cups based OS X box to print to a cups printserver... Anyway, after much messing around I finally settled on magicfilter and lprng, although I'm sure apsfilter would work. Magicfilter had an script using the gdi driver that I was able to tweek to make my goofy samsung laser (ML1710) happy.
Those are a lot of fun... We always used aqua net (I think it's on the order of 90% propane), but I had good results with WD-40 as well, without the stickyness that you get with hairspray.
The most flamable aerosol type substance I ever personally witnessed was 3M Super 77. Don't get me wrong - I like to play with fire as much as the next guy, but I got uneasy when my friends lit that stuff.
Okay, so suppose we setup an entirely new mail system and force authenticated mail transfer with some sort of PKI. Everyone that wants to run a mail server needs to get a certificate for their server from their ISP and all certs belong to some sort of tree structure heirarchy. Give everyone who has a certificate the ability to generate a sub-cert for someone else downstream of them.
If someone starts spamming from any particular corner, you can just refuse all mail from that corner of the tree. That might work as incentive to ISP's to lay the smack down on spammers - most of their other customers would probably want functioning mail.
It might not actually be terribly practical, but in my current sleepy state, it sounds quite reasonable. I suppose it sets up a single point of failure, but you might be able to set up multiple roots a la DNS or something.
WMP is indeed available, but I don't know how many of its codecs are. All I know is that I can't listen to any streaming audio from yahoo - I'm TV-less and have not had any luck picking up the games I want to hear on the radio. Granted, no one is making them stream broadcasts, so I try not to gripe too much.
The thing that bothers me is that they seem to think it should work on Macs but didn't bother to check to see if the.Net audio codec was actually ported to them before they started using it. If I'm wrong, please enlighten me, but after much poking around, I've had no luck in finding it...
Hmm. My old performa 6116 could *barely* play mp3s with SoundApp (lean mean audio decoding/converting machine - wish it was carbonized). That there is a 60mhz 601, if anyone cares. Also, at least when it comes to DES crunching on distributed.net, a 200mhz 604e is roughly 5 times faster than a 60mhz 601. I would think it would be able to handle ogg fine, although granted, you wouldn't want to be demanding a whole lot more of the machine;)
Yep - they should. I keep my tunage on a readonly nfs mount and my dynamic playlists, ratings, and playcounts work just fine. I think all that wonderful metadata is stored in the iTunes prefs somewhere.
That said, I'm having trouble to get the plugin to work (either that or the encoder on that site). Not sure what's going on yet...
I remember their "live video feed" being a quicktime movie. You could even see its cute little position control slide accross the window as movie played. Crays indeed...
And while we're on the subject, one of the most annoying puter interfaces I had the displeasure of seeing on the big screen was from Swordfish. Good lord. Honestly. Other than that, it was a fine movie:)
Oooo, lookie here! It's a Mac Troll coming out from under the bridge. Quick, where are the torches and acid? And I suppose you think that because Apple did it that way, it's correct? Or because this Fitts fellow says so? I don't think Fitts ever had to use a touchpad, or he might have scrapped his so-called "law".
Hey, it makes sense to me - the Fitts fellow's reasoning is better than doing something because everyone else does it that way. Gotta give em credit for sticking with it. For the record, I assumed a mouse input, don't care for trackpads much myself, and wasn't aware that this was an issue in your case. Perhaps that would indeed change the research some, and I would be curious as to what was learned.
Oh, now I'm an average user!
If that was what I came off as saying, I apologize - that was not the intended meaning. What I mean to say is that *most* OS X users are average users - most Mac people I've met haven't done much in the land of unix and don't know about root accounts and why they are dangerous. Apple is trying to make it so they don't have to find out and can just get their work done.
And a *whiny* average user, at that!
Well, you do sound whiney, but I do acknowledge that I am indeed a bastard, if it improves matters.
Forget that I've got a B.S. in computer science
Before we all go waving the degree flag, I'd like to point out that I at least have known a number of people that made it out with degrees in CS and CprE that were fairly clueless. That said, I've got a BS in CprE. I myself may be fairly clueless. All I'm suggesting is that you could be willing to put a bit more time into figuring things out before bitching about them.
Would I get noses thumbed at me for complaining about a linuxism or windowsism that I was unaware of for lack of experience on the platform? I would expect so.
and that I've been a full-time Linux and NT sysadmin for seven years. (That's seven years *after* graduation, not working helldesk or running boxes at home or any other creative ways you little prats lie on your resumes.)
Hey, there really is something to be said for that and I respect that. If you've been sysadminning successfully for that long you obviously do know how to find answers and get shit done.
I'm average because I really didn't give enough of a damn to look up how to delete a pesky folder in OS X, because I was too busy getting shit done and generally enjoying myself on my Windoze and Linux boxen. Woe is me!
Hey, I'm all for using whatever platform you prefer. If someone has been using Windows for most of their life and asked for advice on buying a new system, I recommend that they go with another Windows box unless they have a real reason to try something else. I've used a variety of versions of Windows and Linux myself. My g4 is running Debian about 50% of the time. If I had hardware worthy of it, I'd probably have Win2k installed somewhere too. I'm just suggesting that when approaching a different operating system, don't expect things to behave like others and spend some time figuring it out.
Hmmm...seems like just about every modern user interface other than MacOS uses these so-called "Windows-style" menubars, including KDE and Gnome.
I suppose that makes it the right way to do it, now doesn't it. It's just a matter of what you're used to - for a while, menu bars in every damn app window on a windows box annoyed the fuck out of me. Deal with it.
From the time I took the iBook out of the box until this day, I have never been given the opportunity to set a root password. How can I forget something I never had the opportunity to set? And how is this my problem?
Ah yes. Well, Apple doesn't want to make it easy for the average use to use the root account, because the average user will probably do something stupid with it and break things. They would rather that you use sudo instead anyway. Anywho, if you'd search on the topic on the web for all of two minutes, you would probably find that there are a few ways of accomplishing this. To name a couple, whip out your friendly NetInfo Manager and in the menu bar, choose Domain->Security->Authenticate, put in your password, and then do Domain->Security->Change Root Password. Or if it's easier, whip out a terminal and do sudo passwd root. Or just sudo su - if you don't want to bother. Try to find some help before complaining next time - you'll often find there is no need to bitch and might accidentally learn something.*
nwp
* the tone of this information would have been considerably different, had the parent's author not sounded whiney
INABBMMI (I'm not a biologist but my mother is), so I've heard about a things like this from time to time. I think water will crystallize differently depending on the rate at which it is cooled. If you do it right, I think it doesn't have those nasty side effects of ripping up the cell structures. The problem is, how do you freeze and thaw a hunk of meat this large and this warm at the right rate evenly throughout the whole mass? Frogs are less trouble because they're so much smaller and the window is a bit bigger. It's like having the ulimate microwave that will defrost your hamburger at a specific rate and perfectly evenly, *and* be able to do the reverse. A Tad Tricky.
If someone can make something that'll do this, not only will there be major medical impacts, but you'll have the ultimate kitchen appliance.
Seeing as the computer/burner/net connection is functioning basically as an appliance here, shouldn't they perhaps go after the person who actually did the bad deed? Isn't that a bit like suing the laundromat if someone runs someone elses kid through a permanent press cycle?
Ever play with pari gp? We used it for calculations in a cryptography course. Our prof was very much into linux and perl - quite a guy really. Tis GPLed, works on several architectures, and is really powerful. Go here or apt-get install pari-doc pari-extra pari-gp, if debian's your bag.
You know, for the longest time I'd only seen the for-tv version of Stripes and was completely unaware of the nekkidness in the mud wrestling scene. Now, normally I'm all for nekkid female mud wrestling, just like the next guy, but this isn't exactly the sort of thing that my girlfriend would want to see. And I wouldn't wanna show it to my kids, assuming I ever get around to having some someday. I'd pay for the option to have things like that edited, but if possible it'd be great to get em on the same disc.
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Regardless of how I feel about this particular app, Doug's a great guy - I took a networking class from him at ISU a few years ago.
Maybe they're concerned that if they help this guy out*, the MPAA will come after them with all of their guns blazing...
* I know, different guy, different nationality, and slightly different spelling, but this is the MPAA we're talking about here.
Maybe I didn't poke through the documentation enough, but I never figured out how to make cups accept remote jobs. I figured it'd be a snap to get a cups based OS X box to print to a cups printserver... Anyway, after much messing around I finally settled on magicfilter and lprng, although I'm sure apsfilter would work. Magicfilter had an script using the gdi driver that I was able to tweek to make my goofy samsung laser (ML1710) happy.
Those are a lot of fun... We always used aqua net (I think it's on the order of 90% propane), but I had good results with WD-40 as well, without the stickyness that you get with hairspray.
The most flamable aerosol type substance I ever personally witnessed was 3M Super 77. Don't get me wrong - I like to play with fire as much as the next guy, but I got uneasy when my friends lit that stuff.
Oooh, and rubber cement is pretty good too!
Ahh, memories...
So is forking something that's dying anything like beating a dead horse? :-)
Generally when I find I need duct tape, I'm gonna need more than I'd be able to fit in my wallet...
But I guess some duct tape is better than no duct tape, right?
Okay, so suppose we setup an entirely new mail system and force authenticated mail transfer with some sort of PKI. Everyone that wants to run a mail server needs to get a certificate for their server from their ISP and all certs belong to some sort of tree structure heirarchy. Give everyone who has a certificate the ability to generate a sub-cert for someone else downstream of them.
If someone starts spamming from any particular corner, you can just refuse all mail from that corner of the tree. That might work as incentive to ISP's to lay the smack down on spammers - most of their other customers would probably want functioning mail.
It might not actually be terribly practical, but in my current sleepy state, it sounds quite reasonable. I suppose it sets up a single point of failure, but you might be able to set up multiple roots a la DNS or something.
I dunno.
Haven't seen this mentioned yet, but last I heard Roxio is buying Napster's intellectual property. Not sure what they intend to do with it though :)
-nwp
WMP is indeed available, but I don't know how many of its codecs are. All I know is that I can't listen to any streaming audio from yahoo - I'm TV-less and have not had any luck picking up the games I want to hear on the radio. Granted, no one is making them stream broadcasts, so I try not to gripe too much.
.Net audio codec was actually ported to them before they started using it. If I'm wrong, please enlighten me, but after much poking around, I've had no luck in finding it...
The thing that bothers me is that they seem to think it should work on Macs but didn't bother to check to see if the
-nwp
But what I wanna know is how the hell am I supposed to fit a shoe in my pants?
Lets hear it for vibrating cell phones and pagers!
-nwp
Hmm. My old performa 6116 could *barely* play mp3s with SoundApp (lean mean audio decoding/converting machine - wish it was carbonized). That there is a 60mhz 601, if anyone cares. Also, at least when it comes to DES crunching on distributed.net, a 200mhz 604e is roughly 5 times faster than a 60mhz 601. I would think it would be able to handle ogg fine, although granted, you wouldn't want to be demanding a whole lot more of the machine ;)
-nwp
Yep - they should. I keep my tunage on a readonly nfs mount and my dynamic playlists, ratings, and playcounts work just fine. I think all that wonderful metadata is stored in the iTunes prefs somewhere.
That said, I'm having trouble to get the plugin to work (either that or the encoder on that site). Not sure what's going on yet...
-nwp
Probably better than using one of those security cables...
nwp
heh, very nice :)
-nwp
My name is Ingo Molnar.
:)
You kill my father - prepare to die.
er... sorry about that, I won't do it again
-nwp
That's because it was a mac ;)
:)
I remember their "live video feed" being a quicktime movie. You could even see its cute little position control slide accross the window as movie played. Crays indeed...
And while we're on the subject, one of the most annoying puter interfaces I had the displeasure of seeing on the big screen was from Swordfish. Good lord. Honestly. Other than that, it was a fine movie
nwp
In addition to what is offered above, I suspect quite a few of us don't have broadband because we're freaking unemployed.
When times are tight, some of the first things go go are twinkies, cds, and broadband.
*sniff* - I miss you, cupcake!
nwp
Oooo, lookie here! It's a Mac Troll coming out from under the bridge. Quick, where are the torches and acid? And I suppose you think that because Apple did it that way, it's correct? Or because this Fitts fellow says so? I don't think Fitts ever had to use a touchpad, or he might have scrapped his so-called "law".
Hey, it makes sense to me - the Fitts fellow's reasoning is better than doing something because everyone else does it that way. Gotta give em credit for sticking with it. For the record, I assumed a mouse input, don't care for trackpads much myself, and wasn't aware that this was an issue in your case. Perhaps that would indeed change the research some, and I would be curious as to what was learned.
Oh, now I'm an average user!
If that was what I came off as saying, I apologize - that was not the intended meaning. What I mean to say is that *most* OS X users are average users - most Mac people I've met haven't done much in the land of unix and don't know about root accounts and why they are dangerous. Apple is trying to make it so they don't have to find out and can just get their work done.
And a *whiny* average user, at that!
Well, you do sound whiney, but I do acknowledge that I am indeed a bastard, if it improves matters.
Forget that I've got a B.S. in computer science
Before we all go waving the degree flag, I'd like to point out that I at least have known a number of people that made it out with degrees in CS and CprE that were fairly clueless. That said, I've got a BS in CprE. I myself may be fairly clueless. All I'm suggesting is that you could be willing to put a bit more time into figuring things out before bitching about them.
Would I get noses thumbed at me for complaining about a linuxism or windowsism that I was unaware of for lack of experience on the platform? I would expect so.
and that I've been a full-time Linux and NT sysadmin for seven years. (That's seven years *after* graduation, not working helldesk or running boxes at home or any other creative ways you little prats lie on your resumes.)
Hey, there really is something to be said for that and I respect that. If you've been sysadminning successfully for that long you obviously do know how to find answers and get shit done.
I'm average because I really didn't give enough of a damn to look up how to delete a pesky folder in OS X, because I was too busy getting shit done and generally enjoying myself on my Windoze and Linux boxen. Woe is me!
Hey, I'm all for using whatever platform you prefer. If someone has been using Windows for most of their life and asked for advice on buying a new system, I recommend that they go with another Windows box unless they have a real reason to try something else. I've used a variety of versions of Windows and Linux myself. My g4 is running Debian about 50% of the time. If I had hardware worthy of it, I'd probably have Win2k installed somewhere too. I'm just suggesting that when approaching a different operating system, don't expect things to behave like others and spend some time figuring it out.
cheers,
nwp
Hmmm...seems like just about every modern user interface other than MacOS uses these so-called "Windows-style" menubars, including KDE and Gnome.
I suppose that makes it the right way to do it, now doesn't it. It's just a matter of what you're used to - for a while, menu bars in every damn app window on a windows box annoyed the fuck out of me. Deal with it.
From the time I took the iBook out of the box until this day, I have never been given the opportunity to set a root password. How can I forget something I never had the opportunity to set? And how is this my problem?
Ah yes. Well, Apple doesn't want to make it easy for the average use to use the root account, because the average user will probably do something stupid with it and break things. They would rather that you use sudo instead anyway. Anywho, if you'd search on the topic on the web for all of two minutes, you would probably find that there are a few ways of accomplishing this. To name a couple, whip out your friendly NetInfo Manager and in the menu bar, choose Domain->Security->Authenticate, put in your password, and then do Domain->Security->Change Root Password. Or if it's easier, whip out a terminal and do sudo passwd root. Or just sudo su - if you don't want to bother. Try to find some help before complaining next time - you'll often find there is no need to bitch and might accidentally learn something.*
nwp
* the tone of this information would have been considerably different, had the parent's author not sounded whiney
corporate america produced windows.
Hey now, don't blame a blame all of corporate america for the actions of M$ and some bad crack.
nwp
INABBMMI (I'm not a biologist but my mother is), so I've heard about a things like this from time to time. I think water will crystallize differently depending on the rate at which it is cooled. If you do it right, I think it doesn't have those nasty side effects of ripping up the cell structures. The problem is, how do you freeze and thaw a hunk of meat this large and this warm at the right rate evenly throughout the whole mass? Frogs are less trouble because they're so much smaller and the window is a bit bigger. It's like having the ulimate microwave that will defrost your hamburger at a specific rate and perfectly evenly, *and* be able to do the reverse. A Tad Tricky.
If someone can make something that'll do this, not only will there be major medical impacts, but you'll have the ultimate kitchen appliance.
nwp
Seeing as the computer/burner/net connection is functioning basically as an appliance here, shouldn't they perhaps go after the person who actually did the bad deed? Isn't that a bit like suing the laundromat if someone runs someone elses kid through a permanent press cycle?
nwp
heh
:)
I wish you well in your quest
nwp
Ever play with pari gp? We used it for calculations in a cryptography course. Our prof was very much into linux and perl - quite a guy really. Tis GPLed, works on several architectures, and is really powerful. Go here or apt-get install pari-doc pari-extra pari-gp, if debian's your bag.
nwp
You know, for the longest time I'd only seen the for-tv version of Stripes and was completely unaware of the nekkidness in the mud wrestling scene. Now, normally I'm all for nekkid female mud wrestling, just like the next guy, but this isn't exactly the sort of thing that my girlfriend would want to see. And I wouldn't wanna show it to my kids, assuming I ever get around to having some someday. I'd pay for the option to have things like that edited, but if possible it'd be great to get em on the same disc.
Anywho, just my 2 cents...
nwp