...the technique is based on color changes that occur in an array of vapor-sensitive dyes known as metalloporphyrins - doughnut-shaped molecules that bind metal atoms.
First of all, you can only get 33600bps when going from user to user (all analog); one end needs to be digital in order to get 56K speeds.
My bad, I admit to not having much experience with 56K modems - I moved over to cable without going through that step.
Second, how will the TiVO know it's going to be able to connect even though it got no dialtone?
That's tougher. I guess I flung this suggestion out without using _too_ much thought:) If you can change the modem initialization string in the box, and not just the phone number, just use an AT command instead of ATDT[number]. That should just put the modem on-hook, and the other modem can give the response tweets. It's been a long time since I messed around with anything like this though.
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A word of advice. Read, think, review, then write.
I read. I thought. I tried to review, but I couldn't get any of what you wrote to make sense, half a mind told me you were trolling and the other told me you were clueless, and I was feeling sarcastic. That perception hasn't really changed, especially now that you suddenly start talking about peer to peer where you were saying point to point in the last message - and I'd _really_ like to see your data on how peer to peer is inherently secure.
I know what VPN is, and I know what an SSH tunnel is - I'm using one right now to access my VNC server at home through the firewall here at work. These are all fine, if what you want is a connection to a secure network over an insecure one. However, if what you get from your dialup line is a no-holds-barred connection to the Internet, which is the case with most of these Internet appliances (the name is a major clue here), having a PPP dialup connection isn't any more secure than a connection over any other network.
When I was talking about the firewall, I _did_ mean a NATing one - my mistake and a stupid thing to leave out, I admit, but I thought it was obvious from the context.
How a firewall will help you in this model?
block in all
pass in quick on xl1 from <tivo.com netmask> to <your little tivo box>
Missing rules can be added as you see fit - for instance, one that lets your TiVo send something to the tivo network.
Your first post just plain didn't make sense, and it still doesn't, at least to me. Accusing me of trolling won't change that. --
If you have a spare modem lying around, put it on your PC with ethernet, connect the TiVO/whatever modem out to your modem instead of the phone line, and set up a PPP server on your box. There you have it, no extra phoneline needed.
Of course, you will still only get 56K, but those 56 Ks will probably be a lot faster than over a clogged ISP's phone line. --
That's some seriously good crack you're smoking. Could you please pass me some?
Anyway, I'm glad to see you know so many acronyms. VPN, DSL, p2p, even ssh! I bow down to your eliteness. Now, for your next task, try to arrange those words in sentences that actually make sense.
Could you please explain to me how p2p makes any box more secure? Or actually, I'm much more interested in how you emulate a SSH connection over VPN. If you don't want your toaster to be "haxored", here's a nice tip: Place it _behind_ the firewall. Preferably with a non-routable ip address. And seal the firewall nicely. This is what most people who know what a network looks like do. If you're interested in information about how to do this, and not just using nonsense to make fellow crackheads boost your karma, you could do worse than having a look at Building Linux and OpenBSD firewalls.
Oh, and Jini's at your house, messing with your mother. --
I know you're trolling, but you actually have a great point:
Our military is composed of fine young men and women who volunteered to serve their country, most of whom are white and come from middle-class families.
People are going to die in wars. Period. That's the whole point of war--to get rid of a threat to our nation;
That's actually a damn good reason for war - getting rid of all those horribly stupid middle-class white people. If anything is a threat to the USA, it's them. --
And about the face on mars: every year there are newsitems about potatos with 'faces' in them; probably aliens as well?
You may joke, but don't disregard the real truth behind this. There are numerous examples of alien influence on our potatoes - the faces you mention, potato crop circles, even linux distributions.
alien 6.43 -> 6.44 into dists/potato/main/binary-all/admin
alien (6.44) unstable;
See? And they're unstable as well. I wouldn't speak too loudly about this if I were you. There's also a news item about alien potatoes in WightOnLine. And here, from the Mars News page:
For the past two years, the Hungarian-born scientist has been consumed by the most precious specimen of his career:
a tiny bit from a potato-size lump of rock blasted to Earth billions of years ago from Mars.
There you have it. The facts don't lie. The aliens are probably already on to you, and will blast you away from the face of the planet as soon as they've taken care of those two Mars probes. --
I miss my C64 - it was where I learnt how to program assembly!!! By hand!!!
As opposed to programming assembly by manipulating the quantum insecurity fields surrounding the RAM in your computer with gestures and strange incantations, making the assembly code pop up by magic?
"Eighteen milliliters of water - one swallow - contain six times 1023 molecules," Tour says, pausing for a moment to allow the number to sink in. "If you could stack up that many sheets of paper, they would reach the sun 400 million times. I can make that many molecules in a flask in three days."
So 6138 sheets of paper will reach the sun 400 million times, if you could stack up that many?
For a molecular scientist, he sure uses some thick paper sheets. --
The "suit-case" looks very much like a desktop computer with a laptop monitor connected.. Does anybody know where I can find some information on this kind of thing? Flatscreens are neat, and a wrecked laptop is a lot cheaper than a flat VGA screen.. --
You're right, of course. I think the numbers look reasonable though - even though the unit isn't.. Guess my brain hadn't started working yet when I quoted that without noticing..
Actually, looking at the chart on top of the page, they seem to be confusing Watt-hours with Watts. So they mean to say Watt-hours/hr. Or just Watts. Oh well. --
"Right now millions of machines and web sites pollute every day," says Overman, alluding to their dependence on electric power plants that produce carbon dioxide.
And here I always thought power plants produced electricity.. Well, I guess this is a good thing and all, but
computers aren't exactly very power-hungry.. According to Alternative Power Systems, a home computer consumes 80-150 W/hr, which isn't much compared to air conditioning, electric heating, the light bulbs in your home, etc..
To make a difference with things like this, they need to suply power to a lot more than a small set of low-consumption computers. I seriously suspect these people of being more interested in doing CGI programming at 75$/hr than protecting the environment.. Besides, they're not even running Solaris:)
What we need are huge solar panels in space and wireless transmission of power down here to juice the stuff that eats a bit more than the websites.. But I guess that's not as profitable as selling "Powered by the sun" stickers to e-businesses;) --
Crap.. This spells more trouble. I'm already being picked out for searches in customs too often because of the way I dress - if the security check can smell drugs in my aura, travelling will be even more annoying.. And if I'm put through one more needless stripsearch, some airport cop is going to get a metal detector rammed up his ass.
At least I live in a country where smoking weed is legal, and they're comparatively light on other drug use. I can imagine that in California they will put these things on the exits of all public buildings, and if you had a cigarette while you were in you'll get shot. --
Does anyone know whether the M17 binary builds work with Glibc2.1+? Otherwise I'll have to wait for the source to be released, I haven't got time to bother with pulling it from the VCS..
It's extremely annoying that the Netscape builds are all for libc5 or Glibc2.0. I'm not going to put another version of the C library on my Linux box just for Netscape - it's more than bloated enough already. Mozilla has been way too unstable/unusable earlier, but from the release notes it's starting to look a bit better.
Right now I'm stuck running HotJava, which is actually a lot better than it sounds, believe it or not:) --
I agree with you that Napster shouldn't really be grouped with Socrates and Reich - I am exaggerating. What Napster _does_ do, however, that a typewriter doesn't, is make a massive amount of people more aware that most of the laws they're governed by are followed more because of fear of repercussion or inconvenience than anything else. Suddenly hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of people become criminals without for one instance regarding themselves as such.
Everybody, save the record industry, loves Napster. Compare the user base of Napster with the amount of people in the RIAA, and you see who the laws are designed to protect. --
(for all you non-Norwegian speakers out there, pardon the
unintelligible stuff above.. Just had to make a comment:)
To keep this _somewhat_ on-topic, this is also the Wiccan Rede:
An' it harm none, do what thou wilt.
Personally I don't agree with this bastardization, as I feel it
works slightly against the concept about True Will, and goes
completely against other Thelemic writings.. But to each hir own:) --
... if it's cheap enough that I can replace my HP48G without ruining myself completely:) The 48G is still sweet after all this time.. I certainly hope the Xpander will be usable as a remote control as well:)
HP has a history about being way more hacker-friendly than the other calculator manufacturers regarding software and packaging - including a serial connector cable/PC software instead of selling it separately, making sweet stuff like compilers available, using established transfer protocols instead of proprietary, and of course the lovely RPN.. All for a reasonably low price.
If they can keep up with their previous cost-to-coolness ratio, I'm definitely going to buy one. Otherwise I'll probably have troubles resisting my urge to nick one;) --
It seems to me that the problem we're facing is too much legislation. Maybe it's time we started rewriting the laws from scratch?
A good starting point would be:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
- Aleister Crowley
Why should programmers be silenced for following their True will? Science is already bogged down and stupidified through the master-servant systems incorporated in all major corporations, the education system and politics.
Communication is only possible between equals
- Robert Anton Wilson
If you have to go through the burden of bureaucracy, or resort to lying to your superiors because you know your real thoughts might get you fired or failed, you're already losing control over your own creativity.
Controversial or subversive material such as Socrates' philosophies, the research and books of Wilhelm Reich, or Napster, will always be suppressed by the powers that Be because of fear of the Unknown. The majority of the general public will be fooled all the time. Lawsuits and threats of financial incapacitation have just replaced the poison cup or the burning of books as the establishments instrument of oppression.
Maybe it's time to realise that electorial democracy is just another words for a self-imposed dictatorial oligarchy? --
The Neo-Geo was actually two machines.. One meant for arcades and one for home users. The home user version was, as you say, ridiculously expensive, but I think it must have been worth it, seeing the quality of the games.. Although the majority of the games released were fighting games a la Street Fighter, you do have some neat car games and true side scroller gems like Metal Slug 1 & 2..
You also have the Neo Geo CD machine, which I've never tried, and the Neo Geo Pocket, a quite recent and apparently very neat handheld console.
However, SNK announced a few months ago that it's ceasing all operations in the US and Europe, so good luck finding one or games for it outside of Japan from now on:(
You can find a bit of info about the Neo Geo at EmulationZone. --
Sorry if I misunderstood you. I'm not necessarily saying that all kids are ready to handle everything. Then again, you're putting words in my mouth as well.. I never said you should make pornography a subject in first grade:) I'm not for pushing sex and violence on schoolkids. Forcing anyone to do anything against their will is the only crime in my book.
On the other hand, I'm not for protecting them from seeing these things either. I don't think many of the kindergarten kids would go to google and type in a search for "partial birth abortion". And I don't think they'll be surfing for porn much either, until they're near puberty..
What I am saying is that kids will come across things they aren't ready to handle sooner or later, no matter how hard you try to protect them. If you give them the impression that some things should be kept out of their sight, they'll feel like criminals when they happen to see it. This is especially the case with nudity or pornography, where they might actually like what they see.
In my opinion it's better to comfort and counsel the kids after they stumble over something like this instead of telling them they shouldn't see it. And if you put censoring software on the computers they're using this is the message you're giving. --
There are some topics that are just not meant for kids to read about.
I have to say I disagree. I can't see why a kid should be artificially protected from "harmful words or images" and then get the shock of his life when he grows older and realises that the world is rotten to the core.
It doesn't help anybody to blindfold children. What _would_ help would be to teach your kid how the world works, and what he can do to make it better. But if you teach him that certain things should be hidden because they are evil, he will perceive himself as evil if he finds the words an images that has been concealed from him appealing when he sees them.
Censorship like this will help prolong the current state of affairs, which is pretty much a state of inherent self-loathing and self-insecurity for every adult on the planet.
Showing your children love and open-mindedness is infinitely more important and better, at least in my eyes, than telling them that certain things are Bad and should be kept Out Of Sight. --
Slashdot Mirror
Mmmmm... Doughnuts!
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The early eighties. Who needs mice, color monitors, or modeless editors anyway?
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My bad, I admit to not having much experience with 56K modems - I moved over to cable without going through that step.
Second, how will the TiVO know it's going to be able to connect even though it got no dialtone?
That's tougher. I guess I flung this suggestion out without using _too_ much thought :) If you can change the modem initialization string in the box, and not just the phone number, just use an AT command instead of ATDT[number]. That should just put the modem on-hook, and the other modem can give the response tweets. It's been a long time since I messed around with anything like this though.
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I read. I thought. I tried to review, but I couldn't get any of what you wrote to make sense, half a mind told me you were trolling and the other told me you were clueless, and I was feeling sarcastic. That perception hasn't really changed, especially now that you suddenly start talking about peer to peer where you were saying point to point in the last message - and I'd _really_ like to see your data on how peer to peer is inherently secure.
I know what VPN is, and I know what an SSH tunnel is - I'm using one right now to access my VNC server at home through the firewall here at work. These are all fine, if what you want is a connection to a secure network over an insecure one. However, if what you get from your dialup line is a no-holds-barred connection to the Internet, which is the case with most of these Internet appliances (the name is a major clue here), having a PPP dialup connection isn't any more secure than a connection over any other network.
When I was talking about the firewall, I _did_ mean a NATing one - my mistake and a stupid thing to leave out, I admit, but I thought it was obvious from the context.
How a firewall will help you in this model?
Missing rules can be added as you see fit - for instance, one that lets your TiVo send something to the tivo network.Your first post just plain didn't make sense, and it still doesn't, at least to me. Accusing me of trolling won't change that.
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Of course, you will still only get 56K, but those 56 Ks will probably be a lot faster than over a clogged ISP's phone line.
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Anyway, I'm glad to see you know so many acronyms. VPN, DSL, p2p, even ssh! I bow down to your eliteness. Now, for your next task, try to arrange those words in sentences that actually make sense.
Could you please explain to me how p2p makes any box more secure? Or actually, I'm much more interested in how you emulate a SSH connection over VPN. If you don't want your toaster to be "haxored", here's a nice tip: Place it _behind_ the firewall. Preferably with a non-routable ip address. And seal the firewall nicely. This is what most people who know what a network looks like do. If you're interested in information about how to do this, and not just using nonsense to make fellow crackheads boost your karma, you could do worse than having a look at Building Linux and OpenBSD firewalls.
Oh, and Jini's at your house, messing with your mother.
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Our military is composed of fine young men and women who volunteered to serve their country, most of whom are white and come from middle-class families.
People are going to die in wars. Period. That's the whole point of war--to get rid of a threat to our nation;
That's actually a damn good reason for war - getting rid of all those horribly stupid middle-class white people. If anything is a threat to the USA, it's them.
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You may joke, but don't disregard the real truth behind this. There are numerous examples of alien influence on our potatoes - the faces you mention, potato crop circles, even linux distributions.
You want proof? Here's a quote from Debian:
See? And they're unstable as well. I wouldn't speak too loudly about this if I were you. There's also a news item about alien potatoes in WightOnLine. And here, from the Mars News page:And lastly, a review of Alien Resurrection at the Digital Couch Potato, mentioned at www.enfused.com, seems to have mysteriously disappeared.There you have it. The facts don't lie. The aliens are probably already on to you, and will blast you away from the face of the planet as soon as they've taken care of those two Mars probes.
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As opposed to programming assembly by manipulating the quantum insecurity fields surrounding the RAM in your computer with gestures and strange incantations, making the assembly code pop up by magic?
You wimp :)
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"Eighteen milliliters of water - one swallow - contain six times 1023 molecules," Tour says, pausing for a moment to allow the number to sink in. "If you could stack up that many sheets of paper, they would reach the sun 400 million times. I can make that many molecules in a flask in three days."
So 6138 sheets of paper will reach the sun 400 million times, if you could stack up that many?
For a molecular scientist, he sure uses some thick paper sheets.
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The "suit-case" looks very much like a desktop computer with a laptop monitor connected.. Does anybody know where I can find some information on this kind of thing? Flatscreens are neat, and a wrecked laptop is a lot cheaper than a flat VGA screen..
--
Actually, looking at the chart on top of the page, they seem to be confusing Watt-hours with Watts. So they mean to say Watt-hours/hr. Or just Watts. Oh well.
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And here I always thought power plants produced electricity.. Well, I guess this is a good thing and all, but computers aren't exactly very power-hungry.. According to Alternative Power Systems, a home computer consumes 80-150 W/hr, which isn't much compared to air conditioning, electric heating, the light bulbs in your home, etc..
To make a difference with things like this, they need to suply power to a lot more than a small set of low-consumption computers. I seriously suspect these people of being more interested in doing CGI programming at 75$/hr than protecting the environment.. Besides, they're not even running Solaris :)
What we need are huge solar panels in space and wireless transmission of power down here to juice the stuff that eats a bit more than the websites.. But I guess that's not as profitable as selling "Powered by the sun" stickers to e-businesses ;)
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At least I live in a country where smoking weed is legal, and they're comparatively light on other drug use. I can imagine that in California they will put these things on the exits of all public buildings, and if you had a cigarette while you were in you'll get shot.
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So if you're in a hurry, do the CVS thing.. I think I'll wait until it's tarballed nicely, saves a bit of time.
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It's extremely annoying that the Netscape builds are all for libc5 or Glibc2.0. I'm not going to put another version of the C library on my Linux box just for Netscape - it's more than bloated enough already. Mozilla has been way too unstable/unusable earlier, but from the release notes it's starting to look a bit better.
Right now I'm stuck running HotJava, which is actually a lot better than it sounds, believe it or not :)
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That's the idea of the Law. It can't have an amendment. It's the whole of the law. :)
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Everybody, save the record industry, loves Napster. Compare the user base of Napster with the amount of people in the RIAA, and you see who the laws are designed to protect.
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Det visste jeg faktisk :)
(for all you non-Norwegian speakers out there, pardon the unintelligible stuff above.. Just had to make a comment :)
To keep this _somewhat_ on-topic, this is also the Wiccan Rede:
Personally I don't agree with this bastardization, as I feel it works slightly against the concept about True Will, and goes completely against other Thelemic writings.. But to each hir own--
HP has a history about being way more hacker-friendly than the other calculator manufacturers regarding software and packaging - including a serial connector cable/PC software instead of selling it separately, making sweet stuff like compilers available, using established transfer protocols instead of proprietary, and of course the lovely RPN.. All for a reasonably low price.
If they can keep up with their previous cost-to-coolness ratio, I'm definitely going to buy one. Otherwise I'll probably have troubles resisting my urge to nick one ;)
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A good starting point would be:
Why should programmers be silenced for following their True will? Science is already bogged down and stupidified through the master-servant systems incorporated in all major corporations, the education system and politics. If you have to go through the burden of bureaucracy, or resort to lying to your superiors because you know your real thoughts might get you fired or failed, you're already losing control over your own creativity.Controversial or subversive material such as Socrates' philosophies, the research and books of Wilhelm Reich, or Napster, will always be suppressed by the powers that Be because of fear of the Unknown. The majority of the general public will be fooled all the time. Lawsuits and threats of financial incapacitation have just replaced the poison cup or the burning of books as the establishments instrument of oppression.
Maybe it's time to realise that electorial democracy is just another words for a self-imposed dictatorial oligarchy?
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tar -xvzf someapp.tar.gz ./INSTALL
less
See?
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You also have the Neo Geo CD machine, which I've never tried, and the Neo Geo Pocket, a quite recent and apparently very neat handheld console.
However, SNK announced a few months ago that it's ceasing all operations in the US and Europe, so good luck finding one or games for it outside of Japan from now on :(
You can find a bit of info about the Neo Geo at EmulationZone.
--
On the other hand, I'm not for protecting them from seeing these things either. I don't think many of the kindergarten kids would go to google and type in a search for "partial birth abortion". And I don't think they'll be surfing for porn much either, until they're near puberty..
What I am saying is that kids will come across things they aren't ready to handle sooner or later, no matter how hard you try to protect them. If you give them the impression that some things should be kept out of their sight, they'll feel like criminals when they happen to see it. This is especially the case with nudity or pornography, where they might actually like what they see.
In my opinion it's better to comfort and counsel the kids after they stumble over something like this instead of telling them they shouldn't see it. And if you put censoring software on the computers they're using this is the message you're giving.
--
I have to say I disagree. I can't see why a kid should be artificially protected from "harmful words or images" and then get the shock of his life when he grows older and realises that the world is rotten to the core.
It doesn't help anybody to blindfold children. What _would_ help would be to teach your kid how the world works, and what he can do to make it better. But if you teach him that certain things should be hidden because they are evil, he will perceive himself as evil if he finds the words an images that has been concealed from him appealing when he sees them.
Censorship like this will help prolong the current state of affairs, which is pretty much a state of inherent self-loathing and self-insecurity for every adult on the planet.
Showing your children love and open-mindedness is infinitely more important and better, at least in my eyes, than telling them that certain things are Bad and should be kept Out Of Sight.
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