digitallyimported.com had a Vorbis stream for awhile. It was up and down all the time because they were always messing with it. It was 80kbps, but sounded better than the 128kbps MP3 stream. They've taken it down citing too much work.
I've played with Icecast's Vorbis support, and frankly, it was kind of a pain in the ass to get working. Administering a whole bunch of servers with it would most likely be a big pain. mod_mp3 for apache supports Vorbis though, I've suggested that to DI, hopefully they will check it out.
Grab yourself a Sandisk SDDR-31 CF reader, cut it apart. Buy a USB plug from digikey, cut off most of the cable and solder the new plug very close to the rest of the the part you ripped out. Buy yourself an IBM 340MB ($155) or a 1G ($310) microdrive. Plug it into the pins on the connector you ripped out of the CF reader.
Make yourself a cheap mold out of a little plastic container with a hole cut in the side for the USB plug to stick out of, put your electronics in it and fill it with that 2 part polymer stuff. Instant pocket 1G drive, for under $350.
I grabbed the demo about 2 weeks ago, and I have to say, it's pretty damn fun. After I hacked in and changed some guys social security number, the demo ended because my rating got too high.
Apparently there's a story line which gets quite interesting, and the CD has a password protected zip file on it. You have to crack it to find out what's in it. I don't have the full version yet, but I'm planning on buying it. 2 of my friends just received their copies today.
Just download the demo and try it out, chances are that you'll buy it. I can't stop playing once I sit down in front of it, and I'm not normally into games at all.
I ordered a Tim Conway awhile back because he was on clearance. The first sales rep didn't even know they still had one around. Well, they sent me a Damian Conway instead. I couldn't get him to do the "Dorf" bit, and he wouldn't wear stupid clothes or talk like a Norwegian at all. I tried to return him, but they wouldn't take him back because when I opened the box, I automatically agreed to their EULA which was inside.
Finally, after several weeks of complaining they let me ship him back for an exchage. Except they accidentally sent me Conway Twitty this time. Actually I'm not so sure it was an accident. Anyway, Conway Twitty happily does a norwegian accent so I'm fairly satisfied. Except he keeps trying to seduce my grandma...
That's not secure either. SSL sessions can be intercepted. Just take a look at ettercap, search for it on freshmeat.net. After playing with this on your bridged DSL connection a little bit, you'll realize that SSL sucks.
Strong encryption via PGP or some other strong method would be the way to go.
Actually, in a previous article I read about XM, they will have exactly 29 commercial free channels. But, is it just a coincedence that they also have exactly 29 news/talk only channels?
I should just sign up and then cancel citing too many commercials, just to make a point. It probably wouldn't matter much, but it would if many people did it.
The FAQ says:
The weight-energy storage is almost equivalent to gasoline. This means it generates about the same amount of energy per gallon of fuel as gasoline.
So, if this is true, wouldn't an electric car powered by this with fuel cells probably get better mileage than most gasoline cars? A gasoline engine is burning the fuel, giving up like 90% of it's energy in the form of heat. While fuel cells, and electric motors also produce heat, it's not nearly as much and a much larger percentage of the energy can be used for actually powering the vehicle.
I agree completely. XM has the advantage of being out first, especially right before christmas. But there is no friggin' way in hell I'm going to *PAY* $10 a month for more commercials. I will happily pay $12.95 a month though to Sirius for commercial free music.
An mp3 player in the car would be nice, but it requires love and attention for adding new music, creating playlists, etc. It's nice to just be able to turn on the radio and hear music. Plus, you get exposed to new music on the radio, with an mp3 player, you are limited to what's in your current library.
I've complained many times to XM about their commercials, and several of my friends have also. It appears that they have made a few channels commercial free now because of all of the complaints, but there are still commercials, and there is no way I'm going to pay for that.
One thing I've noticed though, is that many of those sites that give you a form for your site, or integrate somehow, have fairly easily exploitable "price change" holes. I know of several sites that are vulnerable to it. Basically, the price and total are URL encoded into links on the order page. Stupid mistake. If you check each and every order before you send it out, that's probably fine, but if you have someone else sending your merchandise for you, you'll probably run into some problems.
Have you ever tried to get CC processing without having a physical storefront? I have, and it's nearly impossible without handing over at least a grand and a 3 year commitment. Paypal is easy to set up and requires no sort of approval process or agreements. Plus, it integrates easily with your website.
If anyone knows of a place that will give me a merchant account without taking a bundle of my money, let me know. I spent about 6 months trying to find one about 2 years ago, and then just scrapped the site because there was no way for me to accept online payments.
Wow, it's pretty damn obvious that market droids named this thing. "eComStation". Damn. Makes me wanna rush out in my Mazda MP3 and buy it now with my Titanium Visa.
I heard he's going to be in charge of the MS Supreme Court 2002 installation. And there are also rumors of a switch to MS Advanced Senate. Unfortunately, the upgrade to MS President Express has been postponed because it kept dying.
Ok, this is a bloody accident for me waiting to happen. Do you know how sweet it would be to get that thing up to 60mph or so?? If I ever get ahold of one, there's going to be some hot warranty voiding action.
DNScache is extremely fast. One of our bind servers was seeing 100% cpu from named. I switched it over to DNScache, and usage went down to 3%.
Qmail is no longer the front runner for speed. The latest versions of postfix are beating it by about 40% (at least under freebsd). This was not true 1 year ago. Plus, if you've ever had to make any modifications to qmail, you'd know what freakin' nightmare it is.
Ok, so since this thing runs a slimmed down version of debian, how hard would it be to hack in support for Ogg Vorbis? My whole music collection is Vorbis, and if this player can do vorbis, I'll order one up right now.
Reuters -- Kemps announced today that it will be adding Yo-Beer to it's line of Yo-J branded drinks. The state of Oklahoma has agreed to purchase 76 million gallons of Yo-Beer to help clean up the state. Kemps stock has risen 23% on the news. However, the Oklahoma state legislature withdrew their offer after realizing that their entire trailer park population is basically walking bags of beer and bacteria, and they are already paying millions of dollars to keep them around in the form of welfare and unemployment checks. Kemps stock fell to 10% below market open.
Last night, when I installed the Wolfenstein test, it put it all under/usr/local/games/wolf and made symlinks to/usr/bin for the executables. I wish more apps did that.
Imagine every app installed on your machine did this... so much more manageable....
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digitallyimported.com had a Vorbis stream for awhile. It was up and down all the time because they were always messing with it. It was 80kbps, but sounded better than the 128kbps MP3 stream. They've taken it down citing too much work.
I've played with Icecast's Vorbis support, and frankly, it was kind of a pain in the ass to get working. Administering a whole bunch of servers with it would most likely be a big pain. mod_mp3 for apache supports Vorbis though, I've suggested that to DI, hopefully they will check it out.
The first person who tries to implant one of these in me is going to have a bullet implanted in them.
Grab yourself a Sandisk SDDR-31 CF reader, cut it apart. Buy a USB plug from digikey, cut off most of the cable and solder the new plug very close to the rest of the the part you ripped out. Buy yourself an IBM 340MB ($155) or a 1G ($310) microdrive. Plug it into the pins on the connector you ripped out of the CF reader.
Make yourself a cheap mold out of a little plastic container with a hole cut in the side for the USB plug to stick out of, put your electronics in it and fill it with that 2 part polymer stuff. Instant pocket 1G drive, for under $350.
Wow, once we can get that res down to 1cm or less, CowboyNeal might be able to finally find his wee-wee.
I grabbed the demo about 2 weeks ago, and I have to say, it's pretty damn fun. After I hacked in and changed some guys social security number, the demo ended because my rating got too high.
Apparently there's a story line which gets quite interesting, and the CD has a password protected zip file on it. You have to crack it to find out what's in it. I don't have the full version yet, but I'm planning on buying it. 2 of my friends just received their copies today.
Just download the demo and try it out, chances are that you'll buy it. I can't stop playing once I sit down in front of it, and I'm not normally into games at all.
I ordered a Tim Conway awhile back because he was on clearance. The first sales rep didn't even know they still had one around. Well, they sent me a Damian Conway instead. I couldn't get him to do the "Dorf" bit, and he wouldn't wear stupid clothes or talk like a Norwegian at all. I tried to return him, but they wouldn't take him back because when I opened the box, I automatically agreed to their EULA which was inside.
Finally, after several weeks of complaining they let me ship him back for an exchage. Except they accidentally sent me Conway Twitty this time. Actually I'm not so sure it was an accident. Anyway, Conway Twitty happily does a norwegian accent so I'm fairly satisfied. Except he keeps trying to seduce my grandma...
Why don't they transfer the files over HTTPS?
That's not secure either. SSL sessions can be intercepted. Just take a look at ettercap, search for it on freshmeat.net. After playing with this on your bridged DSL connection a little bit, you'll realize that SSL sucks.
Strong encryption via PGP or some other strong method would be the way to go.
Actually, in a previous article I read about XM, they will have exactly 29 commercial free channels. But, is it just a coincedence that they also have exactly 29 news/talk only channels?
I should just sign up and then cancel citing too many commercials, just to make a point. It probably wouldn't matter much, but it would if many people did it.
The FAQ says:
The weight-energy storage is almost equivalent to gasoline. This means it generates about the same amount of energy per gallon of fuel as gasoline.
So, if this is true, wouldn't an electric car powered by this with fuel cells probably get better mileage than most gasoline cars? A gasoline engine is burning the fuel, giving up like 90% of it's energy in the form of heat. While fuel cells, and electric motors also produce heat, it's not nearly as much and a much larger percentage of the energy can be used for actually powering the vehicle.
I agree completely. XM has the advantage of being out first, especially right before christmas. But there is no friggin' way in hell I'm going to *PAY* $10 a month for more commercials. I will happily pay $12.95 a month though to Sirius for commercial free music.
An mp3 player in the car would be nice, but it requires love and attention for adding new music, creating playlists, etc. It's nice to just be able to turn on the radio and hear music. Plus, you get exposed to new music on the radio, with an mp3 player, you are limited to what's in your current library.
I've complained many times to XM about their commercials, and several of my friends have also. It appears that they have made a few channels commercial free now because of all of the complaints, but there are still commercials, and there is no way I'm going to pay for that.
Here's a nice rackmount case that does what you want. They sell full systems or just the cases. You could always buy the 4u and put it on its side.
http://www.spinserver.com
One thing I've noticed though, is that many of those sites that give you a form for your site, or integrate somehow, have fairly easily exploitable "price change" holes. I know of several sites that are vulnerable to it. Basically, the price and total are URL encoded into links on the order page. Stupid mistake. If you check each and every order before you send it out, that's probably fine, but if you have someone else sending your merchandise for you, you'll probably run into some problems.
So can you give us any inside info on Quicken for linux?? :)
Have you ever tried to get CC processing without having a physical storefront? I have, and it's nearly impossible without handing over at least a grand and a 3 year commitment. Paypal is easy to set up and requires no sort of approval process or agreements. Plus, it integrates easily with your website.
If anyone knows of a place that will give me a merchant account without taking a bundle of my money, let me know. I spent about 6 months trying to find one about 2 years ago, and then just scrapped the site because there was no way for me to accept online payments.
Wow, it's pretty damn obvious that market droids named this thing. "eComStation". Damn. Makes me wanna rush out in my Mazda MP3 and buy it now with my Titanium Visa.
I heard he's going to be in charge of the MS Supreme Court 2002 installation. And there are also rumors of a switch to MS Advanced Senate. Unfortunately, the upgrade to MS President Express has been postponed because it kept dying.
Ok, this is a bloody accident for me waiting to happen. Do you know how sweet it would be to get that thing up to 60mph or so?? If I ever get ahold of one, there's going to be some hot warranty voiding action.
DNScache is extremely fast. One of our bind servers was seeing 100% cpu from named. I switched it over to DNScache, and usage went down to 3%.
Qmail is no longer the front runner for speed. The latest versions of postfix are beating it by about 40% (at least under freebsd). This was not true 1 year ago. Plus, if you've ever had to make any modifications to qmail, you'd know what freakin' nightmare it is.
Isn't it possible to build a kernel with Math coprocessor emulation though? Wouldn't this add an emulated FPU?
Plus, the Iomega Hip Zip supports Vorbis. Not officially yet, but I know that Iomega has it working.
Ok, so since this thing runs a slimmed down version of debian, how hard would it be to hack in support for Ogg Vorbis? My whole music collection is Vorbis, and if this player can do vorbis, I'll order one up right now.
I thought I remember hearing that they were planning on shooting someone into space sometime this year? Wasn't that on slashdot a few months back?
Reuters -- Kemps announced today that it will be adding Yo-Beer to it's line of Yo-J branded drinks. The state of Oklahoma has agreed to purchase 76 million gallons of Yo-Beer to help clean up the state. Kemps stock has risen 23% on the news. However, the Oklahoma state legislature withdrew their offer after realizing that their entire trailer park population is basically walking bags of beer and bacteria, and they are already paying millions of dollars to keep them around in the form of welfare and unemployment checks. Kemps stock fell to 10% below market open.
Last night, when I installed the Wolfenstein test, it put it all under /usr/local/games/wolf and made symlinks to /usr/bin for the executables. I wish more apps did that.
Imagine every app installed on your machine did this... so much more manageable....
SPAM!
The ISP (Genuity) just no longer accepts spamcop complaints on that domain anymore.
That's because that fucking black rocket they have is a nuclear spam generator.