What is it with all the "lack of Linux support" I see every time Netflix comes up in a thread?
search "netflix linux"
I know Netflix works fine on my Ubuntu desktop, I've been using it since last year; the solution has 32- and 64-bit deb and rpm files or an apt link, or subscribe to the ppa. I do _not_ know all the distros it works on, having no need to find out nor the time to play around with a mess of vm installs just to find out. Fellow up above says it works on Mint, but that's a 'buntu derivative and maybe shouldn't be counted. Eric Hoover has instructions for Fedora on his site, which might give some indication. Whatever distro you use, you could at least try, right? If you're serious you could even, you know, download the source and compile it for your system.
You mean all you did was go to Netflix and see 'no Linux' and gave up? You never bothered to do a quick, simple search? I've been posting info about Compholio since I started using it last year and it's been like talking to a brick wall. No, sorry, not a personal attack at all, you are just in the line of fire, so to speak.
There are deb and rpm packages in 32- and 64-bit; you can subscribe to the ppa or compile as you choose. I don't know what distros this will work on as I've only used it on my host OS with Firefox. (I used to watch Netflix from within an XP vm using VirtualBox.)
Washington Post has the same material, do they not?
In response to the earlier submission on Miranda's arrest and the confiscation of all his electronics, a poster posited that the mechanic thus far has been to release some info, the gov't responds, more info is given out which also catches out the first gov't response to be a lie. Repeat. This serves among other things to keep matters in the public view, as you point out, and perhaps increases its anger and concern.
Poster also posited that if all were released at once it might afford gov't the chance to do a bit of one-time mea culpa and then sweep the matter away. A new, compelling news story, manufactured or no, could then captivate the audience, a body not noted for much of an attention span.
Hell's bells, the nigh-daily bombardment of some bit of fluff regarding the Kardashian brood successfully competes for front page on numerous news sites and summaries. Hmm, let's just shorten that as the journalists are wont, to "K-dash", and apply it as short-hand for any kind of fluff-puff used to divert and amuse the masses.
Thanks, Ben, that explains a number of things; I recall several of the stories that hit the news and a few (very few) follow up pieces that had an explanation; until you ran through one of the common realities I'd be left wondering who was trying to pull what with alternate recountings.
dan kaminsky's site for paketto, which includes scanrand; version 1.1 from 2002 has some tools which look interesting http://dankaminsky.com/?s=paketto
No. They often need a bit more charisma, but mostly a drive for power. It may even start innocently, "this is messed up, I'm gonna get elected so's I can make things right," but once in, the game and their own response to it seduce each other. After that it's a lock for many.
"If everyone united and attached bogus terroristic jargon to all their emails...."
You first.
Yeah, I know, I know. It's Monday, close of biz, and I'm retired anyway. I couldn't resist.
In the U.S. marching around and yelling with signs (is that large print? [ducks]) is not allowed; we're now constrained to pre-approved and designated free-speech zones. Any yelling or marching within the zone is classified as a riot and subject to violent dismissal. Oh, and three or more people gathered can be labeled a mob, thus riot. Be seeing you.
He didn't suggest that all may benefit, as such - he listed the best-fit use cases and only suggested that others might want to look into it; he specifically mentioned several times using a highly-directional mic in regard noisy environments (and his wife coming up and saying "rm -rf"); and I don't recall anywhere he claimed higher speed in general coding. The general thrust of the talk was two-fold, that the voice-recognition software he used, with additions, is up to the task, and that it allowed him to work when his hands didn't.
Weird. Back about then I was thinking about using mic and o-scope, taking snapshot, doing lookup from table using best fit. Seemed to make sense to me, but what did I know. And it'd also lend itself to ID. I figured if I had the equipment the actual coding would have been simple enough even I could do it. But that was 8-bit days for micros, life was simpler. (I started down the thought trail by wanting to play a text adventure by voice.)
Nice reminder, thank you. That little bit tends to get lost.
Funny thing, on an entirely different aspect: I usually start the day with a quick look at general news using the Google News tab, and there was not one single story in all of it on any of the ongoing surveillance stuff at all, apart from one grouped heading on Miranda's detention. And on that, few of the linked articles make any stink at all about his confiscated electronics, but rather paid most attention to the M.P. noises.
Hmm, don't think so. Letting go those they did will reduce risk they harbored badthink. New hires will be particularly screened for goodthink. For every one who doesn't apply - or qualify, there will be plenty wanting in - it's a decent GS-grade job in a bad market, comes with good government benefits, and amongst a significant portion of the populace, it's a position with a certain prestige, even cachet, even for a lowly sysadmin - even if, according to some, they're not allowed to say specifically what they do or for which "government department." Security measures notwithstanding I don't guess it's an onerous work environment either.
Policies regarding procedure, tasking, compartmentation, auditing, and managerial oversight, OTOH, is where I imagine most effort is directed.
I suspect it's more an "Excedrin headache #[classified]" than a setback.
Constitutions, sovereign compacts, and law apply to the poor and thus powerless. Exceptions are for embarrassment to one's class, a scapegoat or sop to the masses if caught doing something too extreme to shrug off, as an example _pour encourager les autres_, or some combination.
Abiding the law applies only to those who can't afford the exemption therefrom.
And other stuff. For decline: comfort - air-conditioning vs. mosquitoes; one building with ten screens vs. one, maybe two screens; convenience/laziness/closer vs. a miniature expedition, for example. For many, add in the increased costs and fees of land use and ordinance compliance owing to city sprawl. (It was a long time ago, but one local drive-in still had outhouses.)
For continued drive-in use and survival: Boomers' nostalgia; the "cool" factor for their kids and grandkids, some who will continue to go; freedom of movement and action - you can get out of the car and stretch, smooch, cuddle, and canoodle, smoke a doobie, pop a brew, have quiet conversation without disturbing the neighbors, and so on - oh, and cramming eight or so into a VW on "dollar a car" nights. Years back, I've been to a couple of drive-ins that have had live-action skits or a local band during dusk and intermission.
For what you cite from Wikipedia, the only one relevant specifically to drive-ins is DST.
You and AC above point out one of the big esoteric costs and headaches of the biz and the restrictions upon it. Thanks. My impression it that it's as much protection racket as protection, based on nothing more than glancing into the booth, so to speak.
About your sig - no memory needed. Let 'em roll, let 'em fork. What's to keep track of?
Even for original pet project or three, have each fork continue with a copy of an embedded crawler or such; if it sees something interesting it can phone home. Moreover, HeSheIt doesn't need to do any of the forking anyway - quantum chance eliminates the need for any external work. The Universe as pachinko machine, powered by the great suck* of entropy in lieu of gravity, thoroughly un-directed by little more than probability, forever and a day.
This isn't an either-or situation, the way most posters seem to regard it. While it lends itself well to remote use, it would fit right in as an on-site adjunct. Some times it would export power to the grid, sometime not. Even if a utility didn't pay for grid contribution, it'd only lengthen pay-back time. For those in outlying communities and the boondocks, this would be right handy to have.
If the cost to buy and costs to run and maintain were reasonable this would fit nicely where I live in the Great Lakes states. Waste heat could be an issue a few months of the year and welcome the rest of it.
It's definitely an acquired taste. I didn't start drinking coffee as part of daily routine until, oh, 35 or 40. Now it's unthinkable to go without. The smell? The taste? Mighty fine.
It works. I've even seen chocolate-covered roasted beans. Not that I recommend this.
I have a 10-cup machine, I'm guessing at the now-standard 5oz/cup. Normal fill is just over 8, so call it 42oz. per pot. I make one or two pots a day; if two, there's sometimes carry over to the next day. (I like good coffee, but am no purist; a cup of cold coffee in the morning is just as effective for drug delivery - WD-40 for the brain.)
Mid-price dark roast, a finer-than-average drip grind, filtered water. Works. Been doing this, or close to it, for nigh twenty years so I guess I'm hosed. Have to see how it plays out.
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Search "netflix linux", install solution. Pipelight looks nifty, but I've been using Netflix on my Linux desktop since last year.
What is it with all the "lack of Linux support" I see every time Netflix comes up in a thread?
search "netflix linux"
I know Netflix works fine on my Ubuntu desktop, I've been using it since last year; the solution has 32- and 64-bit deb and rpm files or an apt link, or subscribe to the ppa. I do _not_ know all the distros it works on, having no need to find out nor the time to play around with a mess of vm installs just to find out. Fellow up above says it works on Mint, but that's a 'buntu derivative and maybe shouldn't be counted. Eric Hoover has instructions for Fedora on his site, which might give some indication. Whatever distro you use, you could at least try, right? If you're serious you could even, you know, download the source and compile it for your system.
You mean all you did was go to Netflix and see 'no Linux' and gave up? You never bothered to do a quick, simple search? I've been posting info about Compholio since I started using it last year and it's been like talking to a brick wall. No, sorry, not a personal attack at all, you are just in the line of fire, so to speak.
Netflix works fine on my Ubuntu desktop, and using Firefox; has done since last year. See Compholio.
http://compholio.com/
Ah, thanks for that history lesson. I'd wondered about Seamonkey but had always been too lazy or it was too far down the to-do list to ever get to.
Pipelight looks a handy bit of kit and a fine project.
But I've been watching Netflix natively on my Ubuntu desktop just fine since last year. See Compholio.
http://compholio.com/ or search on "netflix linux" or similar to cast a wider net.
There are deb and rpm packages in 32- and 64-bit; you can subscribe to the ppa or compile as you choose. I don't know what distros this will work on as I've only used it on my host OS with Firefox. (I used to watch Netflix from within an XP vm using VirtualBox.)
Can you record what you watch?
Odd. My first reaction to the story was that it had better be one hell of a keyboard for $179. All the rest has been talked about ad nauseum already.
Washington Post has the same material, do they not?
In response to the earlier submission on Miranda's arrest and the confiscation of all his electronics, a poster posited that the mechanic thus far has been to release some info, the gov't responds, more info is given out which also catches out the first gov't response to be a lie. Repeat. This serves among other things to keep matters in the public view, as you point out, and perhaps increases its anger and concern.
Poster also posited that if all were released at once it might afford gov't the chance to do a bit of one-time mea culpa and then sweep the matter away. A new, compelling news story, manufactured or no, could then captivate the audience, a body not noted for much of an attention span.
Hell's bells, the nigh-daily bombardment of some bit of fluff regarding the Kardashian brood successfully competes for front page on numerous news sites and summaries. Hmm, let's just shorten that as the journalists are wont, to "K-dash", and apply it as short-hand for any kind of fluff-puff used to divert and amuse the masses.
When I read the story the term "bloody-minded" arose; a term coined, I think, just to describe the Brits.
Thanks, Ben, that explains a number of things; I recall several of the stories that hit the news and a few (very few) follow up pieces that had an explanation; until you ran through one of the common realities I'd be left wondering who was trying to pull what with alternate recountings.
re scanrand
http://www.vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk/scanrand.htm good article, didn't see a date, discuss installation and necessary changes for Fedora Core 1.
dan kaminsky's site for paketto, which includes scanrand; version 1.1 from 2002 has some tools which look interesting
http://dankaminsky.com/?s=paketto
No. They often need a bit more charisma, but mostly a drive for power. It may even start innocently, "this is messed up, I'm gonna get elected so's I can make things right," but once in, the game and their own response to it seduce each other. After that it's a lock for many.
"If everyone united and attached bogus terroristic jargon to all their emails...."
You first.
Yeah, I know, I know. It's Monday, close of biz, and I'm retired anyway. I couldn't resist.
In the U.S. marching around and yelling with signs (is that large print? [ducks]) is not allowed; we're now constrained to pre-approved and designated free-speech zones. Any yelling or marching within the zone is classified as a riot and subject to violent dismissal. Oh, and three or more people gathered can be labeled a mob, thus riot. Be seeing you.
He didn't suggest that all may benefit, as such - he listed the best-fit use cases and only suggested that others might want to look into it; he specifically mentioned several times using a highly-directional mic in regard noisy environments (and his wife coming up and saying "rm -rf"); and I don't recall anywhere he claimed higher speed in general coding. The general thrust of the talk was two-fold, that the voice-recognition software he used, with additions, is up to the task, and that it allowed him to work when his hands didn't.
Weird. Back about then I was thinking about using mic and o-scope, taking snapshot, doing lookup from table using best fit. Seemed to make sense to me, but what did I know. And it'd also lend itself to ID. I figured if I had the equipment the actual coding would have been simple enough even I could do it. But that was 8-bit days for micros, life was simpler. (I started down the thought trail by wanting to play a text adventure by voice.)
Nice reminder, thank you. That little bit tends to get lost.
Funny thing, on an entirely different aspect: I usually start the day with a quick look at general news using the Google News tab, and there was not one single story in all of it on any of the ongoing surveillance stuff at all, apart from one grouped heading on Miranda's detention. And on that, few of the linked articles make any stink at all about his confiscated electronics, but rather paid most attention to the M.P. noises.
"Their hiring will become much more difficult"
Hmm, don't think so. Letting go those they did will reduce risk they harbored badthink. New hires will be particularly screened for goodthink. For every one who doesn't apply - or qualify, there will be plenty wanting in - it's a decent GS-grade job in a bad market, comes with good government benefits, and amongst a significant portion of the populace, it's a position with a certain prestige, even cachet, even for a lowly sysadmin - even if, according to some, they're not allowed to say specifically what they do or for which "government department." Security measures notwithstanding I don't guess it's an onerous work environment either.
Policies regarding procedure, tasking, compartmentation, auditing, and managerial oversight, OTOH, is where I imagine most effort is directed.
I suspect it's more an "Excedrin headache #[classified]" than a setback.
bingo
Constitutions, sovereign compacts, and law apply to the poor and thus powerless. Exceptions are for embarrassment to one's class, a scapegoat or sop to the masses if caught doing something too extreme to shrug off, as an example _pour encourager les autres_, or some combination.
Abiding the law applies only to those who can't afford the exemption therefrom.
And other stuff. For decline: comfort - air-conditioning vs. mosquitoes; one building with ten screens vs. one, maybe two screens; convenience/laziness/closer vs. a miniature expedition, for example. For many, add in the increased costs and fees of land use and ordinance compliance owing to city sprawl. (It was a long time ago, but one local drive-in still had outhouses.)
For continued drive-in use and survival: Boomers' nostalgia; the "cool" factor for their kids and grandkids, some who will continue to go; freedom of movement and action - you can get out of the car and stretch, smooch, cuddle, and canoodle, smoke a doobie, pop a brew, have quiet conversation without disturbing the neighbors, and so on - oh, and cramming eight or so into a VW on "dollar a car" nights. Years back, I've been to a couple of drive-ins that have had live-action skits or a local band during dusk and intermission.
For what you cite from Wikipedia, the only one relevant specifically to drive-ins is DST.
You and AC above point out one of the big esoteric costs and headaches of the biz and the restrictions upon it. Thanks. My impression it that it's as much protection racket as protection, based on nothing more than glancing into the booth, so to speak.
About your sig - no memory needed. Let 'em roll, let 'em fork. What's to keep track of?
Even for original pet project or three, have each fork continue with a copy of an embedded crawler or such; if it sees something interesting it can phone home. Moreover, HeSheIt doesn't need to do any of the forking anyway - quantum chance eliminates the need for any external work. The Universe as pachinko machine, powered by the great suck* of entropy in lieu of gravity, thoroughly un-directed by little more than probability, forever and a day.
*a characterization, not a mechanic
This.
This isn't an either-or situation, the way most posters seem to regard it. While it lends itself well to remote use, it would fit right in as an on-site adjunct. Some times it would export power to the grid, sometime not. Even if a utility didn't pay for grid contribution, it'd only lengthen pay-back time. For those in outlying communities and the boondocks, this would be right handy to have.
If the cost to buy and costs to run and maintain were reasonable this would fit nicely where I live in the Great Lakes states. Waste heat could be an issue a few months of the year and welcome the rest of it.
It's definitely an acquired taste. I didn't start drinking coffee as part of daily routine until, oh, 35 or 40. Now it's unthinkable to go without. The smell? The taste? Mighty fine.
It works. I've even seen chocolate-covered roasted beans. Not that I recommend this.
I have a 10-cup machine, I'm guessing at the now-standard 5oz/cup. Normal fill is just over 8, so call it 42oz. per pot. I make one or two pots a day; if two, there's sometimes carry over to the next day. (I like good coffee, but am no purist; a cup of cold coffee in the morning is just as effective for drug delivery - WD-40 for the brain.)
Mid-price dark roast, a finer-than-average drip grind, filtered water. Works. Been doing this, or close to it, for nigh twenty years so I guess I'm hosed. Have to see how it plays out.