I pay for this service and it works well. Everytime your computer connects to a network an email is sent to their server and to any server of your choice with as much tracking/networking information as possible.
Boulder Colorado has a free bike program. Just like Texas A&M - according to one comment. Boulder bought up used bicycles painted them green and set them around town. Anyone can grab a green unlocked bike and ride it to wherever they want. Once you're done with your ride you have to leave the bike in plain site so someone else can find it. Joseph Elwell.
If they mention using Firefox then it's going to be commercial. Although the author of the ad says they have a special guarantee about the pricing, so New York Time's standard pricing may not matter.
Just because they're a non-profit doesn't make them a good cause. If they advocate using more standard compliant browsers rather than just Firefox or Mozilla browers they're more likely to qualify as an advocacy group rather than commercial entity. But based on the promotional drive I don't see how they can not mention Firefox directly.
1) MAME developers, including the ones I've linked to in my original message, will disagree with that Kaillera FAQ item.
It's easy, almost required, for the Kaillera developers to "claim" that they're compliant with the MAME license. But if they're compliant why are the MAME developers up in arms against them, asking them to open their sources?
2) The Kaillera server is not open source.
It should also be noted that Kaillera is practically abandonware at this point. Development has stopped since MAME.67 (2003-04-06). The not-open-source server has many known remotely exploitable holes that prevent users from setting up full time open servers without actively banning ip ranges in a pathetic attempt at security.
"All of this would indicate that the good people at Nullsoft are pretty cool with open source. So if the Winamp 5 source code is not going to be released, then I think we should blame AOL for that, not Nullsoft."
This is simply not true. If you take a look at Kaillera it is in a questionable battle with MAME developers. MAME (open source - but no GPL) requires that derivative works open their source as well. But the Kaillera (two of the main Nullsoft guys) developers have not only refused to comply with MAME's license they've also perma-banned the MAME developers from Kaillera's forums.
This is not a group of people that like open source. Sure they liked fighting AOL, but they also like fighting open source.
I had been using RealVNC as my VNC server on my WinXP box. I switched to UltraVNC because this, and other posts suggested it.
I can not say this loudly, or strongly enough do NOT switch to UltraVNC.
Most of the problems I have with UltraVNC have to do with resolution switching.
My PC is a arcade cabinet (mame), running a frontend called MAMEWAH. MAMEWAH removes all the window's features and shows itself fullscreen. UltraVNC will let me connnect to the machine while running MAMEWAH, but all my keyboard input is ignored. RealVNC worked just fine.
Also, when switching resolutions UltraVNC needs a kick in the pants to allow clients to reconnect. I can't simply reconnect using my VNC client, I have to go to the box and make some adjustments.
Lastly, Chicken of the VNC doesn't seem to like UltraVNC much at all. This could be Chicken's fault, but Chicken worked fine with RealVNC and every other VNC server I've ever tried. VNCThing (also on the Mac) liked UltraVNC a bit more but ran into numerous problems anyways.
So, I'm curious. Robustness or speed? I'm on a local network, so maybe UltraVNC's "performance boost" doesn't apply - because when UltraVNC did work, it didn't seem faster than RealVNC.
If I were you, I'd skip UltraVNC and stick with the Real Thing.;) Joseph Elwell.
This is simply a misunderstanding of the article (no offense). The examples are specific outputs of a random machine. The outputs in question happen to kill the browser the file is named after. So by testing the html pages that are presented you've missed the beef of the article/posting, which is the random machine that came up with those specific html pages.
The true test is to download the man's application mangleme.cgi, install in on a server, and then point Safari at it.
I have done this and Safari (1.3 developer release) crashes quite quickly.
So does IE 5.2 for the mac.
As a side note. Netscape/Mozilla has had something, similar, but not quite the same as this for some time now. Called Browser Buster. It did not generate random html, but did continuously feed real websites, chosen somewhat at random until the browser crashed. I remember we used to have goals, like "last 24 hours on browser buster".
Hopefully you at least read the article. Because your trolling is not helping.
So as to not be a troll, the point is that anyone with physical access to your machine can install something that takes advantage of caches, or creates it's own. This "news item" is blown out of proportion because the user went to a machine that had *already* had Google Desktop Search installed.
Any user that wanted to read all your yahoo email could just as easily have installed a key catcher, either hardware or software. Or all sorts of other types of spyware/snoopware.
The only real news here is that you shouldn't be doing anything you want kept private on a public machine. Is that news to anyone here?
In particular I'd like someone to prove the news summary posted here at slashdot, "it indexes your files across all users on your PC, bypassing user protections ". Go ahead and prove it. Come over to my house, install the software and then show me my Yahoo email. Good luck.
"[Google Desktop] indexes your files across all users on your PC, bypassing user protections. "
If this is true, then the problem lies with your operating system not the application. How is it that Google Desktop was allowed to bypass user protections? Maybe because there are actually no protections at all?
If you read the report the problem isn't that Google is bypassing protections, it's that some other application is caching the information - likely Internet Explorer or Firefox is setup to save web passwords. Google is just taking advantage of this knowledge.
So where is the security violation? It was already on your PC, you just didn't realize it until Google Desktop came along. Good thing it did, or you wouldn't have realized it until someone loaded up Internet Explorer's password database and showed it to you. Joseph Elwell.
"Abandonware sites work on logic somewhat like: "Well, you have this car, but since you've left it parked in the driveway for 6 months without using it, you shouldn't complain if we hotwire it and go joyriding in it... we'll return it so you don't lose anything!""
Actually, laws similar to this do exist for cars, in Arizona (at least). If you park your car in a public place for longer than a year (could be 3 years) I can register with the police to declare the car abandoned and have it's ownership transferred to myself.
My father did this recently in Payson, Arizona. The police notify the prior owner first. It's possible that the car has to also have expired registration.
Of course, the existence of such car laws, doesn't mean that it's ok to download older games that are still clearly copyrighted. Joseph Elwell.
I'll third that, also not anonymously. The problem isn't the links themselves. It's that the content of the message posted is so hastily written to try to get moderation points quickly.
Is the new Mozilla site actually more professional looking? No. Maybe compared to the link in the article from 1998, but not compared to how mozilla.org looked a month ago.
It just seems like this kind of ill-informed comment only serves the purpose of promoting said website. Joseph Elwell.
From a recent C|Net article about Yahoo!'s Instant Messaging client:
"According to research firm Nielsen/NetRatings, about 17 million people, or 12 percent of the Net population, actively used Yahoo Messenger in November. It trails MSN with 27 million users, and market leader AOL with 28 million users. ICQ and Trillian follow the three, serving only a fraction of their users."
So AIM is still on top, with MSN behind it. It should be noted that ICQ is owned by AOL and is compatible with AIM - so it's marketshare reflects the install base of the ICQ application, not the number of users. Even Apple's iChat can talk to ICQ users.
"The digital video recorder revolution is on, with two players, Microsoft and Tivo, having emerged as the most likely candidates to dominate "
Yeah, and let's not forget Ultimate TV flopped miserably. However it should be noted that Microsoft usually gets things right on the third revision. So maybe after the media pc flops the next thing they come out with will soar.
Some comments about the article: "2. Offer quad (four) tuners - two for regular broadcasts and two for HDTV. There should never be recording conflicts."
If 1 doesn't work, where do you come up with 4? Can you never have any conflicts with 2 tuners, 3, no apparently 4 is the magic number to defeat conflicts. What if I want to record 3 things at the same time! Holy cow, let's go to 6, or 8, or a ba-jillion.
"10. Provide a host of additional remote services including email, voicemail, caller ID, vehicle tracking, home automation (lights, home alarm security, window shades, thermostat), and "My RSS" feeds. "My Art" should also be included. Wasn't Bill Gates running around buying up all the digital rights to fine art a while back? "
This guy is obviously confusing his devices. You start integrating too many features and your device looks less like a simple and straight forward toaster and more like an jerry-rigged explosive device.
Things tivo apparently needs to do: "2. Provide Ethernet connectivity to their HDTV unit and include the ability to share recorded files with a Windows-based PC. "
This has already been announced, it's called TiVo2Go.
"3. Provide a DVD burner with all units. Copying should be as simple as selecting a program and pressing "Burn to disc" on a menu."
This is a complaint? There exists TiVo's with DVD Burners and this guy is saying that people can't afford the addition of a DVD Burner shouldn't be able to buy a TiVo? Will you start paying out for these people? Part of what makes IBM compatible computers so attractive is you can get what you need without having to buy the top of the line hardware/features - like you can save a bundle by skipping the DVD burner option at dell.com.
"4. Create a "My Pictures" and "My Music" option for their HDTV units that can access a music and picture library via an Ethernet connection. The current HDTV unit does not allow the TiVo Home Media option."
This guy is missing a clue stick. The HDTV unit is licensed to DirectTV - so this issue is their problem, not TiVo's; remember the guy's initial comment, "like TiVo making a version of their software for PCs? Not going to happen." Ummm, what the @#$#? What makes you think this? TiVo has already licensed their software to manufacturers. What makes you think they wouldn't port it to a PC if there was a market for it? Furthermore, if they did port it to the PC and your PC didn't have a DVD burner would this guy blame TiVo for Dell selling you a computer without a DVD Burner?
"6. Create WiFi-enabled devices to access TiVo media from any television in the house. I would also mention this as a must for Microsoft as well, were it not for the fact that they have already announced that this technology is on it's way in the form of "extender" units due out by the end of this year."
You can buy a second Series 2 TiVo and whammo, you get this feature. Who said the "extender" unit is cheaper/better than just buying a second TiVo?
"7. Provide the ability to connect external hard drives. The robust 250GB drive on my Hughes HR10-250 will be a dinosaur in a few years, and you shouldn't have to hack into your TiVo box to upgrade storage."
While agree with the thought here his reason for it is absurd. Just because the drive will be old doesn't mean it will store less shows! In a few years you'll still be able to store just as many shows. TV is not like your PC. If the TV stream gets larger then in a few years your TiVo simply won't be able to record the larger stream (without down-converting to an older analogue/digital format) whether you have a bigger drive or
My old Titanium powerbook stood up to the DVD test. Right before the second Matrix movie came out I sat down and tested the length of the battery. I put the powerbook in "DVD Playback" mode in the Energy Saving system panel - which means "NO ENERGY SAVING" (brightness all the way up, no spinning down of hard drives). Anyways, the Titanium 15" powerbook was able to display the whole movie beginning to end. Which was great for waiting in line.
My newer Aluminum 15" (firewire 800) Powerbook can NOT do this. I can NOT play an entire DVD from start to finish with sound and everything running at full tilt. It's possible with some fudging of settings I could get a whole movie to work -but I haven't tried.
I imagine the two biggest consumers of power during DVD playback are 1) DVD drive spinning
- this could probably be mitigated by ripping the movie into quicktime and playing off your hard drive (which I believe consumes less power than the DVD drive) 2)Powering the speakers.
- Someone clue me in here, but I imagine you'd save power if you plugged your headphones in rather than powering the onboard speaker. And you'd get a better experience plugging the sound output into an entertainment center too.;)
What I never understood is why bother to dub a movie/cartoon, from say Japan, into English and then not bother to change/translate the character names? It's all well and good that now I can understand what they're saying up until someone's name is mentioned.
Yes, I like original language movies. I'm just pointing out that this Indian remake rather than a simple translation seems like a step in the right direction for people who aren't interested in seeing the original. Joseph Elwell.
What is the rest of your mail configuration? Filters/rules? Use procmail. I have all my rules done through procmail, that way no matter if I'm using squirrelmail, Mail.app or crack cocaine, my filters/rules always get processed before I see my email.
Squirrelmail even has a plugin with an interface to edit your procmail rules: "procfilter" Joseph Elwell.
An interesting use of a darknet would be to shield a real server from unwanted attacks. Have the darknet relate any internet IPs that contact the darknet to your real server to ignore.
As an example. Setup a darknet on the following IPs: DARK_A : 204.210.34.1 DARK_B : 204.210.34.3
Setup the real server mathematically between the two darknet IP addresses: REAL : 204.210.34.2
Now have DARK_A & DARK_B contact REAL whenever DARK_A or DARK_B receive any packets. REAL can be setup to, on the fly, filter out any packets received from the same source as the DARK servers reported.
In a sense you're creating a realtime blacklist. You can set the list on a timed delay to expire. Or even filter out specific packet signatures instead of entire suspect IP addresses.
I guess I don't see the problem. Whether the posters were anonymous or not, don't their opinions and refutations of the facts matter?
"When these masked marauders enter a discussion, you are no longer debating facts and opinions; instead, you are fencing with a phantom"
So the people are masked, their motives are unknown, but the discussions are still real, yes? Here at Slashdot, people can post anonymously, or with presumed pseudonyms/identities; I still don't see the problem.
If some engineer tells you that you should implement some feature you either agree or disagree, it shouldn't matter that the engineer is from company X or some guy in a basement.
This whole post seems like a rant from people who have a grudge so deep against JBOSS that they have made a policy of disagreeing with the company as a whole. Is it any wonder that such a flagrant policy has made JBOSS go undercover? How ironic is it that these people can have a normal discussion with "faceless individuals" but as soon as they realize those individuals were from JBOSS they want to scream bloody murder?
Geez people, how stupid are you? This is just Microsoft paying off journalists to allow them to "Embrace and Extend" Apple's technology. So say apple opens up fairplay, allows Microsoft to start it's own music store, then Microsoft decides, "you know what we'll sell WMA files alongside the entire Apple library" blammo, apple might try to sue (years later - de facto standard so who cares?), in the meantime Microsoft has coopted Apple's own service and they drop AAC support. Joseph Elwell.
if people are accidently marking your emails as spam, odds are they thought it was spam for a reason in the first place. Even if later they changed their mind. Joseph Elwell.
Slashdot Mirror
I pay for this service and it works well. Everytime your computer connects to a network an email is sent to their server and to any server of your choice with as much tracking/networking information as possible.
http://www.pcphonehome.com/index.php
Don't let the name confuse you, they *DO* have a Mac version, I run it on my powerbook.
Joseph Elwell.
Boulder Colorado has a free bike program. Just like Texas A&M - according to one comment. Boulder bought up used bicycles painted them green and set them around town. Anyone can grab a green unlocked bike and ride it to wherever they want. Once you're done with your ride you have to leave the bike in plain site so someone else can find it.
Joseph Elwell.
If they mention using Firefox then it's going to be commercial. Although the author of the ad says they have a special guarantee about the pricing, so New York Time's standard pricing may not matter.
Just because they're a non-profit doesn't make them a good cause. If they advocate using more standard compliant browsers rather than just Firefox or Mozilla browers they're more likely to qualify as an advocacy group rather than commercial entity. But based on the promotional drive I don't see how they can not mention Firefox directly.
Joseph Elwell.
1) MAME developers, including the ones I've linked to in my original message, will disagree with that Kaillera FAQ item.
.67 (2003-04-06). The not-open-source server has many known remotely exploitable holes that prevent users from setting up full time open servers without actively banning ip ranges in a pathetic attempt at security.
It's easy, almost required, for the Kaillera developers to "claim" that they're compliant with the MAME license. But if they're compliant why are the MAME developers up in arms against them, asking them to open their sources?
2) The Kaillera server is not open source.
It should also be noted that Kaillera is practically abandonware at this point. Development has stopped since MAME
Joseph Elwell.
This is simply not true. If you take a look at Kaillera it is in a questionable battle with MAME developers. MAME (open source - but no GPL) requires that derivative works open their source as well. But the Kaillera (two of the main Nullsoft guys) developers have not only refused to comply with MAME's license they've also perma-banned the MAME developers from Kaillera's forums.
This is not a group of people that like open source. Sure they liked fighting AOL, but they also like fighting open source.
Joseph Elwell.
I had been using RealVNC as my VNC server on my WinXP box. I switched to UltraVNC because this, and other posts suggested it.
;)
I can not say this loudly, or strongly enough do NOT switch to UltraVNC.
Most of the problems I have with UltraVNC have to do with resolution switching.
My PC is a arcade cabinet (mame), running a frontend called MAMEWAH. MAMEWAH removes all the window's features and shows itself fullscreen. UltraVNC will let me connnect to the machine while running MAMEWAH, but all my keyboard input is ignored. RealVNC worked just fine.
Also, when switching resolutions UltraVNC needs a kick in the pants to allow clients to reconnect. I can't simply reconnect using my VNC client, I have to go to the box and make some adjustments.
Lastly, Chicken of the VNC doesn't seem to like UltraVNC much at all. This could be Chicken's fault, but Chicken worked fine with RealVNC and every other VNC server I've ever tried. VNCThing (also on the Mac) liked UltraVNC a bit more but ran into numerous problems anyways.
So, I'm curious. Robustness or speed? I'm on a local network, so maybe UltraVNC's "performance boost" doesn't apply - because when UltraVNC did work, it didn't seem faster than RealVNC.
If I were you, I'd skip UltraVNC and stick with the Real Thing.
Joseph Elwell.
This is simply a misunderstanding of the article (no offense). The examples are specific outputs of a random machine. The outputs in question happen to kill the browser the file is named after. So by testing the html pages that are presented you've missed the beef of the article/posting, which is the random machine that came up with those specific html pages.
The true test is to download the man's application mangleme.cgi, install in on a server, and then point Safari at it.
I have done this and Safari (1.3 developer release) crashes quite quickly.
So does IE 5.2 for the mac.
As a side note. Netscape/Mozilla has had something, similar, but not quite the same as this for some time now. Called Browser Buster. It did not generate random html, but did continuously feed real websites, chosen somewhat at random until the browser crashed. I remember we used to have goals, like "last 24 hours on browser buster".
Joseph Elwell.
Maybe about:credits is a good place to start. Am maybe I'm biased because my name is already there.
Joseph Elwell.
Hopefully you at least read the article. Because your trolling is not helping.
So as to not be a troll, the point is that anyone with physical access to your machine can install something that takes advantage of caches, or creates it's own. This "news item" is blown out of proportion because the user went to a machine that had *already* had Google Desktop Search installed.
Any user that wanted to read all your yahoo email could just as easily have installed a key catcher, either hardware or software. Or all sorts of other types of spyware/snoopware.
The only real news here is that you shouldn't be doing anything you want kept private on a public machine. Is that news to anyone here?
In particular I'd like someone to prove the news summary posted here at slashdot, "it indexes your files across all users on your PC, bypassing user protections ". Go ahead and prove it. Come over to my house, install the software and then show me my Yahoo email. Good luck.
Joseph Elwell.
"[Google Desktop] indexes your files across all users on your PC, bypassing user protections. "
If this is true, then the problem lies with your operating system not the application. How is it that Google Desktop was allowed to bypass user protections? Maybe because there are actually no protections at all?
If you read the report the problem isn't that Google is bypassing protections, it's that some other application is caching the information - likely Internet Explorer or Firefox is setup to save web passwords. Google is just taking advantage of this knowledge.
So where is the security violation? It was already on your PC, you just didn't realize it until Google Desktop came along. Good thing it did, or you wouldn't have realized it until someone loaded up Internet Explorer's password database and showed it to you.
Joseph Elwell.
Mess It's Mame plus all the consoles you'd ever care to emulate, all in one.
Now all you have to do is find your ROMs that you, ummm, misplaced, online, as a torrent file.
Joseph Elwell.
"Abandonware sites work on logic somewhat like: "Well, you have this car, but since you've left it parked in the driveway for 6 months without using it, you shouldn't complain if we hotwire it and go joyriding in it... we'll return it so you don't lose anything!""
Actually, laws similar to this do exist for cars, in Arizona (at least). If you park your car in a public place for longer than a year (could be 3 years) I can register with the police to declare the car abandoned and have it's ownership transferred to myself.
My father did this recently in Payson, Arizona. The police notify the prior owner first. It's possible that the car has to also have expired registration.
Of course, the existence of such car laws, doesn't mean that it's ok to download older games that are still clearly copyrighted.
Joseph Elwell.
I'll third that, also not anonymously. The problem isn't the links themselves. It's that the content of the message posted is so hastily written to try to get moderation points quickly.
Is the new Mozilla site actually more professional looking? No. Maybe compared to the link in the article from 1998, but not compared to how mozilla.org looked a month ago.
It just seems like this kind of ill-informed comment only serves the purpose of promoting said website.
Joseph Elwell.
From a recent C|Net article about Yahoo!'s Instant Messaging client:
"According to research firm Nielsen/NetRatings, about 17 million people, or 12 percent of the Net population, actively used Yahoo Messenger in November. It trails MSN with 27 million users, and market leader AOL with 28 million users. ICQ and Trillian follow the three, serving only a fraction of their users."
So AIM is still on top, with MSN behind it. It should be noted that ICQ is owned by AOL and is compatible with AIM - so it's marketshare reflects the install base of the ICQ application, not the number of users. Even Apple's iChat can talk to ICQ users.
Joseph Elwell.
You forgot Windows 3.1
Joseph Elwell.
"The digital video recorder revolution is on, with two players, Microsoft and Tivo, having emerged as the most likely candidates to dominate "
Yeah, and let's not forget Ultimate TV flopped miserably. However it should be noted that Microsoft usually gets things right on the third revision. So maybe after the media pc flops the next thing they come out with will soar.
Some comments about the article:
"2. Offer quad (four) tuners - two for regular broadcasts and two for HDTV. There should never be recording conflicts."
If 1 doesn't work, where do you come up with 4? Can you never have any conflicts with 2 tuners, 3, no apparently 4 is the magic number to defeat conflicts. What if I want to record 3 things at the same time! Holy cow, let's go to 6, or 8, or a ba-jillion.
"10. Provide a host of additional remote services including email, voicemail, caller ID, vehicle tracking, home automation (lights, home alarm security, window shades, thermostat), and "My RSS" feeds. "My Art" should also be included. Wasn't Bill Gates running around buying up all the digital rights to fine art a while back? "
This guy is obviously confusing his devices. You start integrating too many features and your device looks less like a simple and straight forward toaster and more like an jerry-rigged explosive device.
Things tivo apparently needs to do:
"2. Provide Ethernet connectivity to their HDTV unit and include the ability to share recorded files with a Windows-based PC. "
This has already been announced, it's called TiVo2Go.
"3. Provide a DVD burner with all units. Copying should be as simple as selecting a program and pressing "Burn to disc" on a menu."
This is a complaint? There exists TiVo's with DVD Burners and this guy is saying that people can't afford the addition of a DVD Burner shouldn't be able to buy a TiVo? Will you start paying out for these people? Part of what makes IBM compatible computers so attractive is you can get what you need without having to buy the top of the line hardware/features - like you can save a bundle by skipping the DVD burner option at dell.com.
"4. Create a "My Pictures" and "My Music" option for their HDTV units that can access a music and picture library via an Ethernet connection. The current HDTV unit does not allow the TiVo Home Media option."
This guy is missing a clue stick. The HDTV unit is licensed to DirectTV - so this issue is their problem, not TiVo's; remember the guy's initial comment, "like TiVo making a version of their software for PCs? Not going to happen." Ummm, what the @#$#? What makes you think this? TiVo has already licensed their software to manufacturers. What makes you think they wouldn't port it to a PC if there was a market for it? Furthermore, if they did port it to the PC and your PC didn't have a DVD burner would this guy blame TiVo for Dell selling you a computer without a DVD Burner?
"6. Create WiFi-enabled devices to access TiVo media from any television in the house. I would also mention this as a must for Microsoft as well, were it not for the fact that they have already announced that this technology is on it's way in the form of "extender" units due out by the end of this year."
You can buy a second Series 2 TiVo and whammo, you get this feature. Who said the "extender" unit is cheaper/better than just buying a second TiVo?
"7. Provide the ability to connect external hard drives. The robust 250GB drive on my Hughes HR10-250 will be a dinosaur in a few years, and you shouldn't have to hack into your TiVo box to upgrade storage."
While agree with the thought here his reason for it is absurd. Just because the drive will be old doesn't mean it will store less shows! In a few years you'll still be able to store just as many shows. TV is not like your PC. If the TV stream gets larger then in a few years your TiVo simply won't be able to record the larger stream (without down-converting to an older analogue/digital format) whether you have a bigger drive or
My old Titanium powerbook stood up to the DVD test. Right before the second Matrix movie came out I sat down and tested the length of the battery. I put the powerbook in "DVD Playback" mode in the Energy Saving system panel - which means "NO ENERGY SAVING" (brightness all the way up, no spinning down of hard drives). Anyways, the Titanium 15" powerbook was able to display the whole movie beginning to end. Which was great for waiting in line.
;)
My newer Aluminum 15" (firewire 800) Powerbook can NOT do this. I can NOT play an entire DVD from start to finish with sound and everything running at full tilt. It's possible with some fudging of settings I could get a whole movie to work -but I haven't tried.
I imagine the two biggest consumers of power during DVD playback are
1) DVD drive spinning
- this could probably be mitigated by ripping the movie into quicktime and playing off your hard drive (which I believe consumes less power than the DVD drive)
2)Powering the speakers.
- Someone clue me in here, but I imagine you'd save power if you plugged your headphones in rather than powering the onboard speaker. And you'd get a better experience plugging the sound output into an entertainment center too.
Joseph Elwell.
What I never understood is why bother to dub a movie/cartoon, from say Japan, into English and then not bother to change/translate the character names? It's all well and good that now I can understand what they're saying up until someone's name is mentioned.
Yes, I like original language movies. I'm just pointing out that this Indian remake rather than a simple translation seems like a step in the right direction for people who aren't interested in seeing the original.
Joseph Elwell.
What is the rest of your mail configuration? Filters/rules? Use procmail. I have all my rules done through procmail, that way no matter if I'm using squirrelmail, Mail.app or crack cocaine, my filters/rules always get processed before I see my email.
Squirrelmail even has a plugin with an interface to edit your procmail rules: "procfilter"
Joseph Elwell.
An interesting use of a darknet would be to shield a real server from unwanted attacks. Have the darknet relate any internet IPs that contact the darknet to your real server to ignore.
As an example. Setup a darknet on the following IPs:
DARK_A : 204.210.34.1
DARK_B : 204.210.34.3
Setup the real server mathematically between the two darknet IP addresses:
REAL : 204.210.34.2
Now have DARK_A & DARK_B contact REAL whenever DARK_A or DARK_B receive any packets. REAL can be setup to, on the fly, filter out any packets received from the same source as the DARK servers reported.
In a sense you're creating a realtime blacklist. You can set the list on a timed delay to expire. Or even filter out specific packet signatures instead of entire suspect IP addresses.
just a thought...
Joseph Elwell
Yes I know it's been said, but apparently not loud enough.
FORTUNE requires a monthly subscription fee. Why isn't there a mirror or an alternate article, or please just skip the article, or something? Sheesh.
Google News has this cool feature where it says next to the news provider if it's (subscription), (audio). That would be nice to know here.
Joseph Elwell.
I guess I don't see the problem. Whether the posters were anonymous or not, don't their opinions and refutations of the facts matter?
"When these masked marauders enter a discussion, you are no longer debating facts and opinions; instead, you are fencing with a phantom"
So the people are masked, their motives are unknown, but the discussions are still real, yes? Here at Slashdot, people can post anonymously, or with presumed pseudonyms/identities; I still don't see the problem.
If some engineer tells you that you should implement some feature you either agree or disagree, it shouldn't matter that the engineer is from company X or some guy in a basement.
This whole post seems like a rant from people who have a grudge so deep against JBOSS that they have made a policy of disagreeing with the company as a whole. Is it any wonder that such a flagrant policy has made JBOSS go undercover? How ironic is it that these people can have a normal discussion with "faceless individuals" but as soon as they realize those individuals were from JBOSS they want to scream bloody murder?
Joseph Elwell.
Fuck doesn't work either.
;)
I'd be interested in finding out what words amazon is censoring.
"Janet Jackson" works just fine.
Joseph Elwell.
Geez people, how stupid are you? This is just Microsoft paying off journalists to allow them to "Embrace and Extend" Apple's technology. So say apple opens up fairplay, allows Microsoft to start it's own music store, then Microsoft decides, "you know what we'll sell WMA files alongside the entire Apple library" blammo, apple might try to sue (years later - de facto standard so who cares?), in the meantime Microsoft has coopted Apple's own service and they drop AAC support.
Joseph Elwell.
Yeah right, stop spamming people, you spammer!
if people are accidently marking your emails as spam, odds are they thought it was spam for a reason in the first place. Even if later they changed their mind.
Joseph Elwell.