I saw Wil Wheaton as the host of an infomercial for some X3D glasses last night, looks like the same thing that these are. Unfortunately, they only work under windows, and only work with an Nvidia card.
Right now, these look like novelty items, however, what do you think it would be like if your windowing system had 3d support? OSX already has some cool transparency features, which might make a 3d gui more cool. Windows on top could float in air, and minimized windows could be sitting deep inside the screen with different depths depending on what's on top of them. You could probably do some other cool effects too. Yeah, it might be novelty, but I'm sure someone can find a good usability enhancement that would use this technology. Right now, most people think real-time transparency is a novelty, but I find it quite useful on my small laptop screen when I want to work in the active window, but see data in a window behind it either for reference or monitoring.
One way is to buy something called an active repeater. It has an amplifier, and can amplify signals both coming into and exiting the house. Do a search on google for gsm active repeater. I looked into this for one of my remote offices. Cost was around $1500, which is probably more than you want to spend for your house.
Another option is a passive repeater. Basically just an antenna outside, and another inside. No amplifier. However, I'm not fully sure how well these work. I purchased one which claimed it worked for my frequency, but it didn't do a damn thing. If you do this, make sure you buy from some place that looks reputable. Otherwise, there are antenna sites that tell you how to tune antennas to certain frequencies, and if you wanted to do some research, you could probably build your own.
In all reality, you could probably build your own active repeater also, and base it on the design of one of those cable tv amps that work with cable modems, they boost both ways. Of course, you'd have to spend like $80 and rip the thing apart and figure out how to change the range that it works in.
Looks like I won't be buying anymore sony cd's. If they are going to be that inconvenient to listen to, I might as well just download some mp3's and deal with the artifacts from the encoding process.
Like it matters anyway, someone will just hack it, and their big multimillion dollar expenditure will be completely useless. Why do they even bother?
Depo seems to work well for some people, but I've known people who have gotten pregnant while on it, like towards the end of the 3 month time frame. Also, some of the girls have experienced weight gain that they did not experience while on the pill.
I know one person on Norplant, the implant in the arm that lasts for 6 years, and she loves it. No pills or shots, and it's been 100% effective for her so far.
As for not getting your period on Depo, simialar effects also happen with the pill if it's 100% progesterone. Most women who take the pill take one that has both progesterone and estrogen, which is more "fault tolerant" than the straight progesterone version so if she misses a day, it's not a big deal. The progesterone version must be taken within the same hour each day, or you are supposed to use some sort of backup method. Not getting a period is not necessarily a good thing either. While it may be convenient, it's not necessarily healthy. Some women have had problems with their period not starting again when they go off Depo, which can present major problems if they want to have kids.
Too bad vasectomies are not reversable, as that would be the safe way to go. Isn't the primary reason they are not reversable the fact that the sperm is dumped into the bloodstream and your body produces antobodies which then kill them? So if you have it reversed, your body still kills the little guys? Anyway, I'm no doctor, but I play one sometimes.
This is pretty neat, but it doesn't mention how it works. They've been experimenting with the male "shot", which is basically an injection of testosterone into your leg once a week. Apparently, it's quite painful, and has many side effects, like bad acne and more body hair. One good side effect is increased muscle mass, but this is simply a good reason to have it abused by weightlifters as most steroids either stimulate the production of testosterone, or simulate testosterone itself.
If the pill simply increases testosterone to insane levels like the shot does, it's simply a steroid and is going to have side effects similar to other steroids. When you supplement testosterone, your body stops making it's own, and that's part of the reason your nuts shrink.
My ex-gf wanted me to get the shot when it was released because she thought taking the pill was too inconvenient. I think going in for a painful shot once a week, bad acne, and lots of hair is probably more of an inconvenience. The female pill has been around for a long time, and it's side effects (good and bad) are fairly well understood. I think the acceptance rate of a male pill will likely be slow just because it will take awhile to prove itself, and if it does just increase testosterone levels, the side effects may not be worth it.
Sendmail is the devil, install postfix. Postfix is both faster and much easier to administer (postconf -e command, instead of editing the evil sendmail.cf file by hand). You will have to install some extra packages to get it to compile (like pcre, and the latest Berkeley DB), but it's worth it. Plus, postfix has a much shorter history of security issues, and runs as a non-priveledged user to reduce the chance of something really bad happening if a new exploit is discovered.
Just google for "postfix os x 10.2" to find install instructions.
How do I know postfix is better? I built several large mail clusters for a large online financial site using sendmail, qmail, and postfix. Postfix well outperformed the other two (the versions in the last year anyway, qmail used to be the fastest). And with a large number of machines, postfix was a dream to administer.
Out of the box, sendmail is not set up correctly on OS X, at least in 10.2.
I ripped it out and installed Postfix on my iBook instead. I pointed Mail.app at localhost for it's SMTP server, and even when I'm offline, my mail will queue up. However, the only reason I did this is because my ISP's SMTP server sucks, and I wanted to bypass it.
Mail.app will already do offline queues, so you really don't need to do anything special. If it can't send a message, it will tell you, and you just click the "Send Later" button.
I bought an iBook with 128MB of ram. Holy crap, it was the slowest machine I think I've ever use. OS X is a *huge* memory pig. It takes like 320MB of ram with Mail.app and Chimera open. So with 128, it's just swapping all the time. The drive runs constantly. I bought a stick of 512MB from crucial.com, and now it's actually decent. I wouldn't say it's blazingly fast, but it's very usable now. Seems faster than my old Sony PIII 550 laptop too.
I'm sure the G4's are much faster, but I didn't feel like dropping $2500 for a laptop at the time.
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Attach a chunk of 2x4 to the front with some decent nails driven through the front
Congratulations, you have been selected as the "most promising candidate" for next years Darwin Awards. Good luck!
Obviously, they don't have a decent marketing dept. If they knew what they were doing, they would partner with RealDoll and sell about 100 times more of these things.
As a network security engineer, YES. I've seen many programmers have unbelievably stupid passwords on accounts that offer them great levels of access on the network. Things as stupid as "dog", or "password1". Just because someone can program something doesn't mean they know about, or give a shit about security. That's why there are such things as password policies, and I believe paypal actually has one. But just because they have a password policy doesn't mean that the password is strong, plus, maybe someone did something stupid and sent the password over email or stored it on a machine that was cracked.
After an hour or so of sitting in the air stream from these units my legs go numb and fall off and I can't type.
Sounds to me like you need to learn how to type with your hands.
At a company I worked for, we bought 50 Crystal PC's. At the time, they were about $12k each and we could fit 4 of them in a 5U space, which was smaller than anything on the market at the time. After about 3 months of using them in production, hard drives, procs or memory failed in about half of them. Needless to say, we were pissed and we called our sales rep and complained mentioning that they probably didn't have proper cooling. He said "There's no way that's the problem, we've tested them on Mars." Anyway, we yanked them all out of production and replaced them with Dells after that.
ATT seems to block my SIP traffic to vonage.com. I signed up for Vonage's service and it mysteriously stopped working. I called Vonage, and we determined that the traffic is being blocked somewhere along the line. Strangely enough, I'm able to pass SIP traffic to anywhere but Vonage's network.
I called ATT and after about 2 hours talking to tier-3 people, they fixed it. But 2 weeks later, it didn't work again.
Anyone know where I can get some 802.11 cordless phones? The only ones I can find are made by Symbol, but I know there has to be more out there.
I plan on using them with Asterisk and my 802.11 access point. Yeah, I know 802.11 isn't 100% reliable, but I have wired phones for that. I need some VoIP cordless phones.
Just buy the phone you want and replace the batteries. Batteries Plus can order almost any size cell you want in NiMH. You'll probably have to do some soldering, but that's easy.
Also, Siemens phones use standard AA rechargables, so you could replace these with NiMH AA's.
I don't think you can do Li-ion in phones that come with Ni-cad batteries, as Li-ion typically requires more voltage than they put out to charge.
The updates do not show up in software update yet. I checked, and they have not been automatically installed either.
I wish they would add a feature to mail to tell it to reauthenticate against POP or IMAP every number of user defined minutes. My ISP uses POP before SMTP, and after I authenticate, I can relay mail through them for a 30 minute period of time. Since Mail keeps it's connection open, I only have 30 minutes after I start the program to be able to send mail, then I have to kill it and restart it to get another 30 minutes of mail relaying bliss. It's annoying.
Oh, and a task manager in iCal would be extremely useful.
The lawyers for the side that wanted it made illegal were idiots. All they had to do was submit into evidence photos taken with a hidden camera right outside the weight watchers store at the mall.
When OSX 10.3 is released next year, it's supposed to include vorbis support. Around the same time, the iPod is supposed to get some "enhanced" software that will allow it to play more formats. Could this be the first portable vorbis player?
He didn't build the speaker, he built the enclosure for it.
In any case, he used the Shiva II woofer, which I believe is only available without an enclosure, although there are some places making enclosures and selling them with Shiva's already in them. This woofer is around $100 if I remember right, and outperforms many premade commercial products by a longshot. If you know how to use a saw and some basic tools, this woofer is definitely the way to go. I think audioreview.com has some user comments on it, almost all of them positive.
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I saw Wil Wheaton as the host of an infomercial for some X3D glasses last night, looks like the same thing that these are. Unfortunately, they only work under windows, and only work with an Nvidia card.
Right now, these look like novelty items, however, what do you think it would be like if your windowing system had 3d support? OSX already has some cool transparency features, which might make a 3d gui more cool. Windows on top could float in air, and minimized windows could be sitting deep inside the screen with different depths depending on what's on top of them. You could probably do some other cool effects too. Yeah, it might be novelty, but I'm sure someone can find a good usability enhancement that would use this technology. Right now, most people think real-time transparency is a novelty, but I find it quite useful on my small laptop screen when I want to work in the active window, but see data in a window behind it either for reference or monitoring.
There are a couple of ways you can go about it.
One way is to buy something called an active repeater. It has an amplifier, and can amplify signals both coming into and exiting the house. Do a search on google for gsm active repeater. I looked into this for one of my remote offices. Cost was around $1500, which is probably more than you want to spend for your house.
Another option is a passive repeater. Basically just an antenna outside, and another inside. No amplifier. However, I'm not fully sure how well these work. I purchased one which claimed it worked for my frequency, but it didn't do a damn thing. If you do this, make sure you buy from some place that looks reputable. Otherwise, there are antenna sites that tell you how to tune antennas to certain frequencies, and if you wanted to do some research, you could probably build your own.
In all reality, you could probably build your own active repeater also, and base it on the design of one of those cable tv amps that work with cable modems, they boost both ways. Of course, you'd have to spend like $80 and rip the thing apart and figure out how to change the range that it works in.
Looks like I won't be buying anymore sony cd's. If they are going to be that inconvenient to listen to, I might as well just download some mp3's and deal with the artifacts from the encoding process.
Like it matters anyway, someone will just hack it, and their big multimillion dollar expenditure will be completely useless. Why do they even bother?
Depo seems to work well for some people, but I've known people who have gotten pregnant while on it, like towards the end of the 3 month time frame. Also, some of the girls have experienced weight gain that they did not experience while on the pill.
I know one person on Norplant, the implant in the arm that lasts for 6 years, and she loves it. No pills or shots, and it's been 100% effective for her so far.
As for not getting your period on Depo, simialar effects also happen with the pill if it's 100% progesterone. Most women who take the pill take one that has both progesterone and estrogen, which is more "fault tolerant" than the straight progesterone version so if she misses a day, it's not a big deal. The progesterone version must be taken within the same hour each day, or you are supposed to use some sort of backup method. Not getting a period is not necessarily a good thing either. While it may be convenient, it's not necessarily healthy. Some women have had problems with their period not starting again when they go off Depo, which can present major problems if they want to have kids.
Too bad vasectomies are not reversable, as that would be the safe way to go. Isn't the primary reason they are not reversable the fact that the sperm is dumped into the bloodstream and your body produces antobodies which then kill them? So if you have it reversed, your body still kills the little guys? Anyway, I'm no doctor, but I play one sometimes.
This is pretty neat, but it doesn't mention how it works. They've been experimenting with the male "shot", which is basically an injection of testosterone into your leg once a week. Apparently, it's quite painful, and has many side effects, like bad acne and more body hair. One good side effect is increased muscle mass, but this is simply a good reason to have it abused by weightlifters as most steroids either stimulate the production of testosterone, or simulate testosterone itself.
If the pill simply increases testosterone to insane levels like the shot does, it's simply a steroid and is going to have side effects similar to other steroids. When you supplement testosterone, your body stops making it's own, and that's part of the reason your nuts shrink.
My ex-gf wanted me to get the shot when it was released because she thought taking the pill was too inconvenient. I think going in for a painful shot once a week, bad acne, and lots of hair is probably more of an inconvenience. The female pill has been around for a long time, and it's side effects (good and bad) are fairly well understood. I think the acceptance rate of a male pill will likely be slow just because it will take awhile to prove itself, and if it does just increase testosterone levels, the side effects may not be worth it.
Wouldn't one of those kid locator things that have a gps in them work just the same? Just attach it to the car somewhere where it gets a signal.
They are only $400 too.
Sendmail is the devil, install postfix. Postfix is both faster and much easier to administer (postconf -e command, instead of editing the evil sendmail.cf file by hand). You will have to install some extra packages to get it to compile (like pcre, and the latest Berkeley DB), but it's worth it. Plus, postfix has a much shorter history of security issues, and runs as a non-priveledged user to reduce the chance of something really bad happening if a new exploit is discovered.
Just google for "postfix os x 10.2" to find install instructions.
How do I know postfix is better? I built several large mail clusters for a large online financial site using sendmail, qmail, and postfix. Postfix well outperformed the other two (the versions in the last year anyway, qmail used to be the fastest). And with a large number of machines, postfix was a dream to administer.
Out of the box, sendmail is not set up correctly on OS X, at least in 10.2.
I ripped it out and installed Postfix on my iBook instead. I pointed Mail.app at localhost for it's SMTP server, and even when I'm offline, my mail will queue up. However, the only reason I did this is because my ISP's SMTP server sucks, and I wanted to bypass it.
Mail.app will already do offline queues, so you really don't need to do anything special. If it can't send a message, it will tell you, and you just click the "Send Later" button.
I bought an iBook with 128MB of ram. Holy crap, it was the slowest machine I think I've ever use. OS X is a *huge* memory pig. It takes like 320MB of ram with Mail.app and Chimera open. So with 128, it's just swapping all the time. The drive runs constantly. I bought a stick of 512MB from crucial.com, and now it's actually decent. I wouldn't say it's blazingly fast, but it's very usable now. Seems faster than my old Sony PIII 550 laptop too.
I'm sure the G4's are much faster, but I didn't feel like dropping $2500 for a laptop at the time.
Attach a chunk of 2x4 to the front with some decent nails driven through the front
Congratulations, you have been selected as the "most promising candidate" for next years Darwin Awards. Good luck!
Obviously, they don't have a decent marketing dept. If they knew what they were doing, they would partner with RealDoll and sell about 100 times more of these things.
I found that the other night also, time for a trip to the doctor.
As a network security engineer, YES. I've seen many programmers have unbelievably stupid passwords on accounts that offer them great levels of access on the network. Things as stupid as "dog", or "password1". Just because someone can program something doesn't mean they know about, or give a shit about security. That's why there are such things as password policies, and I believe paypal actually has one. But just because they have a password policy doesn't mean that the password is strong, plus, maybe someone did something stupid and sent the password over email or stored it on a machine that was cracked.
After an hour or so of sitting in the air stream from these units my legs go numb and fall off and I can't type.
Sounds to me like you need to learn how to type with your hands.
At a company I worked for, we bought 50 Crystal PC's. At the time, they were about $12k each and we could fit 4 of them in a 5U space, which was smaller than anything on the market at the time. After about 3 months of using them in production, hard drives, procs or memory failed in about half of them. Needless to say, we were pissed and we called our sales rep and complained mentioning that they probably didn't have proper cooling. He said "There's no way that's the problem, we've tested them on Mars." Anyway, we yanked them all out of production and replaced them with Dells after that.
ATT seems to block my SIP traffic to vonage.com. I signed up for Vonage's service and it mysteriously stopped working. I called Vonage, and we determined that the traffic is being blocked somewhere along the line. Strangely enough, I'm able to pass SIP traffic to anywhere but Vonage's network.
I called ATT and after about 2 hours talking to tier-3 people, they fixed it. But 2 weeks later, it didn't work again.
I thought Asterisk could handle the call switching itself? Is this not the case?
I have a cisco router laying around that I could put the call manager IOS on, but I'd rather use it for something else.
Anyone know where I can get some 802.11 cordless phones? The only ones I can find are made by Symbol, but I know there has to be more out there.
I plan on using them with Asterisk and my 802.11 access point. Yeah, I know 802.11 isn't 100% reliable, but I have wired phones for that. I need some VoIP cordless phones.
Doesn't sourceforge have an ARM compile farm?
I think you can crosscompile using gcc also.
Just buy the phone you want and replace the batteries. Batteries Plus can order almost any size cell you want in NiMH. You'll probably have to do some soldering, but that's easy.
Also, Siemens phones use standard AA rechargables, so you could replace these with NiMH AA's.
I don't think you can do Li-ion in phones that come with Ni-cad batteries, as Li-ion typically requires more voltage than they put out to charge.
Doesn't work. The connection is still active and it doesn't reauthenticate. I have mine set for 5 minutes also.
The updates do not show up in software update yet. I checked, and they have not been automatically installed either.
I wish they would add a feature to mail to tell it to reauthenticate against POP or IMAP every number of user defined minutes. My ISP uses POP before SMTP, and after I authenticate, I can relay mail through them for a 30 minute period of time. Since Mail keeps it's connection open, I only have 30 minutes after I start the program to be able to send mail, then I have to kill it and restart it to get another 30 minutes of mail relaying bliss. It's annoying.
Oh, and a task manager in iCal would be extremely useful.
The lawyers for the side that wanted it made illegal were idiots. All they had to do was submit into evidence photos taken with a hidden camera right outside the weight watchers store at the mall.
I'm looking for the ideal LAMP-based server for home use.
An iMac?
When OSX 10.3 is released next year, it's supposed to include vorbis support. Around the same time, the iPod is supposed to get some "enhanced" software that will allow it to play more formats. Could this be the first portable vorbis player?
He didn't build the speaker, he built the enclosure for it.
In any case, he used the Shiva II woofer, which I believe is only available without an enclosure, although there are some places making enclosures and selling them with Shiva's already in them. This woofer is around $100 if I remember right, and outperforms many premade commercial products by a longshot. If you know how to use a saw and some basic tools, this woofer is definitely the way to go. I think audioreview.com has some user comments on it, almost all of them positive.