A license for Real is around $20,000 for 400 connections. It's expensive. Real works very well on Linux though. There is a free RTSP server for linux, do a search on freshmeat for it. I don't know how you would create the video though, I'm sure it's in their FAQ.
Window Media server is free with win2k advanced server, but it's windows, and it won't handle nearly the traffic that the linux box with realserver will handle (8000 connections per processor).
The DivX code was just opensourced (not the shitty Circuit City DivX, the MPEG-4 like codec). I think this will eventually support streaming.
Anyone tried this with one of those countertop Compaq Ipaq flatpanel things? They're only $199 if you "promise" to buy service for it, and they look pretty cool. They run WinCE, so I assume they are StrongArm based.
The Matrix knows about and wants to stop the movies so the truth doesn't get out. Michelle Yeoh was an agent and pulled out on purpose to damage the movie. Keanu is lucky that all he got was a broken ankle.
I know that 1 button mice suck ass, and everytime I've ever had to use a mac I replace the shitty one button poor excuse for a mouse with a real 3 button mouse or trackball.
The only reason the mice have one button is so idiots don't get confused. It's pathetic. MacOS is set up to work with one button, but other OS's are not and take advantage of the better multiple button setup. Holding down an option key while clicking is a poor workaround for a problem that could easily be solved by rewriting their stupid HCI guideline BS.
I was considering purchasing one of these sweet little titanium laptops, that is, until I found out they only have one mouse button. Why in the world would you ruin such a sweet machine by removing 2 of the mouse buttons?
I planned on either putting OSX or Black Lab linux on it, but I guess I'll be sticking with with some sort of intel based laptop. Sad really.
Another thing, I really hate trackpads. I've gotten used to them, but I still really hate them. I wish laptops would come with the little eraser like trackpoint in the middle of the keyboard. They could also come with a trackpad and allow you to disable one in the BIOS.
The problem with converting from MP3 to Ogg is that you're using lossy compression on something that has already been compressed using lossy compression. It makes it sound even worse. Your script is cool, but it should come with a warning that says "you should not use this".:)
If you make it easy for people to convert mp3 to ogg, we're going to end up with LOTS of really shitty sounding ogg files. I'm re-encoding everything I have from the CD, I urge everyone else to do the same.
If only our beloved Williams would start making pinball machines again.:(
I've got a High Speed II - The Getaway at home, and several of my friends have some Williams machines also. I'll hopefully have a Tales of the Arabian Nights next week sometime. Never will I buy a Sega/DataEast machine, they suck.
I could swore the pinball 2000 machines said that they ran QNX on boot.
Vorbis sounds absolutely excellent compared to the same bitrate MP3. I'm encoding all of my CD's into Vorbis format. I wish Napster or Audiogalaxy(has linux support) would support the Vorbis format. I've emailed Audio galaxy about it but haven't heard back. If programs like these supported the format, it would catch on much faster.
I got one also. I replied with a very nasty letter and a threat to report them to MAPS and ORBS. If I receive anything else from them, I will definitely stop using them and happily report them to the blackhole lists.
When people say "don't send me any shit", it means "don't send me any shit". I guess they don't really know what that means.
>who struggles to keep her lifestyle after her husband gets arrested by the DEA and umasked as a drug lord.
How do I umask something as a drug lord? I have a user on my system who is a drug lord and I'd like his default permissions to reflect it. Would it be 'umask 0420'?
Go to Yahoo! Shopping, do a search for something. It gives a listing of merchandise and thumbnails by pulling images from "a plurality of sites". And since you trade money for merchandise, it can be considered "an online trading environment". Been around forever. Screw Ebay.
The Mandrake review states that Mandrake 7.2 does not include Apache. I've done several installs of 7.2 and I can verify that it DOES install Apache. If they chose the workstation install, it may have not installed it by default. I always choose development because that installs nearly everything.
I noticed the article mentioned that Intel now has mobile chips that consume that same amount of power as the Transmeta chip. This seems to put Transmeta in a bad position. If they create software for their chip so it will translate for other architectures (powerpc, sparc, alpha, etc.), they will be in an excellent position. I just can't see them going very far right now without reducing power consumption more, or getting into other architectures.
It's pretty cool, but it's a friggin' brick compared to everything else. You're better off carrying an 8290 or an 8890 and an Ipaq or PalmOS device. You can use the IR on the phone to link your palm device up to your ISP and do whatever you need on that. I don't carry my Palm everywhere, but I do carry my phone everywhere with me. Having the 2 glued together would annoy me.
I have an 8260 now. I want the 8290 or 8890 for the cool GSM features, but ATT Wireless doesn't support GSM yet. Anyone know if they plan on it? I don't want to lose the number I've had for like 6 years, but to get GSM capability, I might be willing to.
1. Kidnap Mary and her little lamb.
2. Skin Mary and sell the skin to the Ed Gein Fine Leathers Corporation.
3. Put Mary into a large blender, or a wood chipper like in the movie Fargo.
4. Add Vodka to taste, tabasco, and a stalk of celery. If no celery is available, you can use a femur.
5. Give the lamb to your local Satanic church. It's always best to be on the good side of the satan worshippers.
Too bad it doesn't have Vorbis support. I've started encoding my entire CD collection into Vorbis format (http://www.vorbis.com).
I encoded Vivaldi's Four Seasons into 128kbps Vorbis format, and with studio headphones and a soundblaster Live, you cannot hear ANY flaws in the music. It has full, rich bass and nice clean highs. MP3 sucks compared to Vorbis. Vorbis is also GPL'd, and the encoder (oggenc) works with grip just fine. In fact, Mandrake 7.2 comes with it already installed. There are winamp and xmms plugins for it too. Just make sure you have a.ogg extension on your music or the player will try to play it as an mp3 and it will give up.
I must have a Vorbis player for my car, I wonder how hard it would be to add support for it.
Dish Network was at the technology building at the minnesota state fair pimpin' this thing. They let me play with it. It totally sucked.
I was lucky if I got downloads much faster than a 33.6 modem, and the latency to the first hop was around 800ms. Total piece of crap when I tested it. Maybe they had it aimed wrong or something. The guy told me the satellite is at an altitude of 20,000 miles in a geosyncronous orbit. I guess that would explain the latency.
If they improved the speed on it from when I tested it, it might be worth it if you're in total BFE.
I'm not quite sure if it's designed for a WAN environment, but it is a Storage Area Network which can support multiple clients. It's cool even if it won't work for what you want.
While I wait for CODA or some other project to become stable, I've been using rsync to replicate video files between multiple geographically different video servers. Rsync is great, because if a large file is still being uploaded, it will transfer as much as it can to the other servers, and when it runs 1 minute later, it will start where it left off. I whacked up a little script that won't start rsync if a copy is already running, otherwise you'll end up with a whole bunch of copies of rsync running.
Does the XFree 4 install work correctly this time? 7.1 couldn't correctly set up my Geforce card for 3d stuff, I had to go in and uninstall libraries, make links to other ones, and hack my XF86Config(-4) all to hell.
I haven't looked at how QAZ works, but wouldn't it get installed and then listen on some port?
Doesn't microsoft keep all of their users behind a firewall? If so, QAZ would just be opening a port on the users computer behind the firewall, no one should be able to get in and actually connect to it, there would have to be a hole poked in the firewall for that to happen.
This is total bullshit on so many levels. But one stands out for sure. With DHCP, the users aren't guaranteed they'll get the same address when their lease expires, but they usually do get the same address. A friend of mine has a cable modem through @home and he's had the same IP for the last 3 months. Their lease time is set for 2 weeks too.
Cable modem providers need to hand out a "tell it like it is" pamphlet, and start pushing personal firewall software. There are way too many clueless users out there, and a pamphlet designed to scare the living daylights out of them is just what they need. I suggest ZoneAlarm. It's free and is way better than just about all other personal firewall products, even the ones you have to pay for.
The only reason I kept a windows 98 box around was to run freedom. Looks like I can format that thing now.
Freedom is great. No one can trace your identity. If someone complains, they can trace it back to your nym and shut down the nym, but they can't trace the nym to you. When you buy a serial number, you get 5 nyms, or as I call them, 5 mistakes before you have to buy another serial number. You can do email, using your nym@freedom.net which is totally untraceable to anyone, unless you are stupid and put a signature in it. You can use IRC, ssh, telnet, www, and pretty much anything else that is a simple port to port connection. It's all anonymous, remote machines see a connection from an IP owned by zero knowledge, not from you.
I gladly fork out money for this service. If more people pay for it, ZK can afford to put in more servers and better servers to increase the performance of their network. It can be slow at times, but I only turn it on when I need it.
Stop being an idiot. If some user sets up a second DHCP server on the network, it will respond to DHCP requests from other peoples workstations. If it responds before the real DHCP server, then the user will have hosed network settings and not be able to do anything. We've had it happen several times. A couple of windows 2000 boxes running DHCP, a redhat box starts it by default if you install it, and those stupid little Mac Airport access points have a DHCP server on them. The biggest threat to our network is a stupid user pluggin in something with a rogue DHCP server on it.
If you have a way around this other than assigning everyone a static IP, I'd sure like to hear it. I'm sure millions of other network people would love to hear your solution also since you sound like you're such a network god.
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A license for Real is around $20,000 for 400 connections. It's expensive. Real works very well on Linux though. There is a free RTSP server for linux, do a search on freshmeat for it. I don't know how you would create the video though, I'm sure it's in their FAQ.
Window Media server is free with win2k advanced server, but it's windows, and it won't handle nearly the traffic that the linux box with realserver will handle (8000 connections per processor).
The DivX code was just opensourced (not the shitty Circuit City DivX, the MPEG-4 like codec). I think this will eventually support streaming.
Anyone tried this with one of those countertop Compaq Ipaq flatpanel things? They're only $199 if you "promise" to buy service for it, and they look pretty cool. They run WinCE, so I assume they are StrongArm based.
The Matrix knows about and wants to stop the movies so the truth doesn't get out. Michelle Yeoh was an agent and pulled out on purpose to damage the movie. Keanu is lucky that all he got was a broken ankle.
I know that 1 button mice suck ass, and everytime I've ever had to use a mac I replace the shitty one button poor excuse for a mouse with a real 3 button mouse or trackball.
The only reason the mice have one button is so idiots don't get confused. It's pathetic. MacOS is set up to work with one button, but other OS's are not and take advantage of the better multiple button setup. Holding down an option key while clicking is a poor workaround for a problem that could easily be solved by rewriting their stupid HCI guideline BS.
I was considering purchasing one of these sweet little titanium laptops, that is, until I found out they only have one mouse button. Why in the world would you ruin such a sweet machine by removing 2 of the mouse buttons?
I planned on either putting OSX or Black Lab linux on it, but I guess I'll be sticking with with some sort of intel based laptop. Sad really.
Another thing, I really hate trackpads. I've gotten used to them, but I still really hate them. I wish laptops would come with the little eraser like trackpoint in the middle of the keyboard. They could also come with a trackpad and allow you to disable one in the BIOS.
The problem with converting from MP3 to Ogg is that you're using lossy compression on something that has already been compressed using lossy compression. It makes it sound even worse. Your script is cool, but it should come with a warning that says "you should not use this". :)
If you make it easy for people to convert mp3 to ogg, we're going to end up with LOTS of really shitty sounding ogg files. I'm re-encoding everything I have from the CD, I urge everyone else to do the same.
If only our beloved Williams would start making pinball machines again. :(
I've got a High Speed II - The Getaway at home, and several of my friends have some Williams machines also. I'll hopefully have a Tales of the Arabian Nights next week sometime. Never will I buy a Sega/DataEast machine, they suck.
I could swore the pinball 2000 machines said that they ran QNX on boot.
Vorbis sounds absolutely excellent compared to the same bitrate MP3. I'm encoding all of my CD's into Vorbis format. I wish Napster or Audiogalaxy(has linux support) would support the Vorbis format. I've emailed Audio galaxy about it but haven't heard back. If programs like these supported the format, it would catch on much faster.
I got one also. I replied with a very nasty letter and a threat to report them to MAPS and ORBS. If I receive anything else from them, I will definitely stop using them and happily report them to the blackhole lists.
When people say "don't send me any shit", it means "don't send me any shit". I guess they don't really know what that means.
>who struggles to keep her lifestyle after her husband gets arrested by the DEA and umasked as a drug lord.
How do I umask something as a drug lord? I have a user on my system who is a drug lord and I'd like his default permissions to reflect it. Would it be 'umask 0420'?
Permafrost melts into a mud/jello-like substance in the summer.
I thought permafrost never melted. Hence the name PERMA-FROST.
Go to Yahoo! Shopping, do a search for something. It gives a listing of merchandise and thumbnails by pulling images from "a plurality of sites". And since you trade money for merchandise, it can be considered "an online trading environment". Been around forever. Screw Ebay.
The Mandrake review states that Mandrake 7.2 does not include Apache. I've done several installs of 7.2 and I can verify that it DOES install Apache. If they chose the workstation install, it may have not installed it by default. I always choose development because that installs nearly everything.
I noticed the article mentioned that Intel now has mobile chips that consume that same amount of power as the Transmeta chip. This seems to put Transmeta in a bad position. If they create software for their chip so it will translate for other architectures (powerpc, sparc, alpha, etc.), they will be in an excellent position. I just can't see them going very far right now without reducing power consumption more, or getting into other architectures.
It's pretty cool, but it's a friggin' brick compared to everything else. You're better off carrying an 8290 or an 8890 and an Ipaq or PalmOS device. You can use the IR on the phone to link your palm device up to your ISP and do whatever you need on that. I don't carry my Palm everywhere, but I do carry my phone everywhere with me. Having the 2 glued together would annoy me.
I have an 8260 now. I want the 8290 or 8890 for the cool GSM features, but ATT Wireless doesn't support GSM yet. Anyone know if they plan on it? I don't want to lose the number I've had for like 6 years, but to get GSM capability, I might be willing to.
1. Kidnap Mary and her little lamb.
2. Skin Mary and sell the skin to the Ed Gein Fine Leathers Corporation.
3. Put Mary into a large blender, or a wood chipper like in the movie Fargo.
4. Add Vodka to taste, tabasco, and a stalk of celery. If no celery is available, you can use a femur.
5. Give the lamb to your local Satanic church. It's always best to be on the good side of the satan worshippers.
Too bad it doesn't have Vorbis support. I've started encoding my entire CD collection into Vorbis format (http://www.vorbis.com).
.ogg extension on your music or the player will try to play it as an mp3 and it will give up.
I encoded Vivaldi's Four Seasons into 128kbps Vorbis format, and with studio headphones and a soundblaster Live, you cannot hear ANY flaws in the music. It has full, rich bass and nice clean highs. MP3 sucks compared to Vorbis. Vorbis is also GPL'd, and the encoder (oggenc) works with grip just fine. In fact, Mandrake 7.2 comes with it already installed. There are winamp and xmms plugins for it too. Just make sure you have a
I must have a Vorbis player for my car, I wonder how hard it would be to add support for it.
Dish Network was at the technology building at the minnesota state fair pimpin' this thing. They let me play with it. It totally sucked.
I was lucky if I got downloads much faster than a 33.6 modem, and the latency to the first hop was around 800ms. Total piece of crap when I tested it. Maybe they had it aimed wrong or something. The guy told me the satellite is at an altitude of 20,000 miles in a geosyncronous orbit. I guess that would explain the latency.
If they improved the speed on it from when I tested it, it might be worth it if you're in total BFE.
You might wanna take a look at GFS.
I'm not quite sure if it's designed for a WAN environment, but it is a Storage Area Network which can support multiple clients. It's cool even if it won't work for what you want.
While I wait for CODA or some other project to become stable, I've been using rsync to replicate video files between multiple geographically different video servers. Rsync is great, because if a large file is still being uploaded, it will transfer as much as it can to the other servers, and when it runs 1 minute later, it will start where it left off. I whacked up a little script that won't start rsync if a copy is already running, otherwise you'll end up with a whole bunch of copies of rsync running.
Does the XFree 4 install work correctly this time? 7.1 couldn't correctly set up my Geforce card for 3d stuff, I had to go in and uninstall libraries, make links to other ones, and hack my XF86Config(-4) all to hell.
:)
I want 3d out of the box.
I haven't looked at how QAZ works, but wouldn't it get installed and then listen on some port?
Doesn't microsoft keep all of their users behind a firewall? If so, QAZ would just be opening a port on the users computer behind the firewall, no one should be able to get in and actually connect to it, there would have to be a hole poked in the firewall for that to happen.
This is total bullshit on so many levels. But one stands out for sure. With DHCP, the users aren't guaranteed they'll get the same address when their lease expires, but they usually do get the same address. A friend of mine has a cable modem through @home and he's had the same IP for the last 3 months. Their lease time is set for 2 weeks too.
Cable modem providers need to hand out a "tell it like it is" pamphlet, and start pushing personal firewall software. There are way too many clueless users out there, and a pamphlet designed to scare the living daylights out of them is just what they need. I suggest ZoneAlarm. It's free and is way better than just about all other personal firewall products, even the ones you have to pay for.
The only reason I kept a windows 98 box around was to run freedom. Looks like I can format that thing now.
Freedom is great. No one can trace your identity. If someone complains, they can trace it back to your nym and shut down the nym, but they can't trace the nym to you. When you buy a serial number, you get 5 nyms, or as I call them, 5 mistakes before you have to buy another serial number. You can do email, using your nym@freedom.net which is totally untraceable to anyone, unless you are stupid and put a signature in it. You can use IRC, ssh, telnet, www, and pretty much anything else that is a simple port to port connection. It's all anonymous, remote machines see a connection from an IP owned by zero knowledge, not from you.
I gladly fork out money for this service. If more people pay for it, ZK can afford to put in more servers and better servers to increase the performance of their network. It can be slow at times, but I only turn it on when I need it.
Stop being an idiot. If some user sets up a second DHCP server on the network, it will respond to DHCP requests from other peoples workstations. If it responds before the real DHCP server, then the user will have hosed network settings and not be able to do anything. We've had it happen several times. A couple of windows 2000 boxes running DHCP, a redhat box starts it by default if you install it, and those stupid little Mac Airport access points have a DHCP server on them. The biggest threat to our network is a stupid user pluggin in something with a rogue DHCP server on it.
If you have a way around this other than assigning everyone a static IP, I'd sure like to hear it. I'm sure millions of other network people would love to hear your solution also since you sound like you're such a network god.
Highlight the message, go under the "view" pulldown, select "options", you'll then see the headers.