Hmm, add a lisp interpreter, elisa, and could you test a pair of these by having them coverse with eachother, each using different languages... man that would be wierd.
Everytime I do a search for a Widescreen set thats not HD, it comes up with a company in the UK... I think it's a conspiracy. There *are* a couple sold here but the price is astronomical compared to a normal set, almost near that of HDTV. The best I can say is, go for one of the HD-Ready sets. They are a little bit cheaper but at least your not paying for all the extra equipment which hasn't even been standardized yet.
7.1.14 scan or probe the security of the Sprint or any other network for any purpose whatsoever by the use of packet sniffers, siphons, decoders or other methods;
Oh, I'd just love to see how the plan to detect my use of a PACKET SNIFFER... (passive listening device) Hey if someone sends a packet of data to my computer without my asking for it, it's obviously a gift (cuecat?) and I can do as I please with said packet =P ahahahhaha
1 Linux box
2 NICs
IP NAT (ipchains)
Squid
Redir script
works like a charm...
As an added bonus, several banner-laded windows shareware apps pull adds with html and are also subjected to ad block, leaving nice peaceful empty white squares;-)
HOWTO/Starter scripts available at:
http://taz.net.au/block/
Squid can be gotten from
http://www.squid-cache.org
There at least 2 (maybe more) IR Remotes on the market that plug into the PS2's controller port and allow you to run the DVD functions with a nice little remote like you'd expect. They are both third-party products
Saitek - Allows you to connect both controllers at once (has a pass-thru) but I've been told the IR control is weak and a couple of buttons are mis-labeled
InterAct - Work's great but uses up one controller port (you'll need to yank it out every time you player 2P+ games) as well as blocks USB and iLink ports
If anyone knows of others let me know, I'm searching for that perfect one (Maybe sony will put one out?) I was kind of hoping my nice collection of 5 sony remotes would already do something with the damn thing (they control every other damn electronic thing in my place;-) These both were likely rushed to market along with all the other third-party stuff in order to get them snatched up with the first round of consoles.
This goes even beyond the basic insecurities I'm sure you've all already posted about.
I just wanted to let you know just how pointless DHCP is here on mediaone (now AT&T broadband) in Massachusets. The nameserver here allowed me to a ZONE TRANSFER... yes thats right. It handed over a nice list of every host on the network... users and all. And since the names are usually based directly from MAC address, the IP doesn't even matter. This is a serious security problem that I've notified them about...
If you read the article you'd realize the system is not sampling quantitative values at 2+Mhz... what it does is the same as the switching powersupply in your PC does. It is switching a line-out voltage @2Mhz and then low-pass filtering the result at around 50khz. It is an interesting system. I'm curious why they didn't quote the dynamic range they can acheive..? This *IS* one area sorely lacking in audio recording. 24bit is decent, but 16bit doesn't quite provide enough range for demanding recordings. I'm guessing the bitstream system will yield significantly higher dynamic range.
I think the most common concern about releasing security sensitive source code (like metrocard, or anything related to transactions) is... "Hey, it'll be easier to crack if they can see how it works". It's a bit of a hurdle to overcome. Especially if we start talking about banking systems. The problem is no system can ever be completely secure. There will always be some way to break it, due to the nature of complex systems. The reasoning behind larger, more secretive systems is that if there will always be some flaws, let's not give them any easy way to find them. In some cases, if the code is reasonably secure to begin with, or if the application is extremely sensitive, open-sourcing doesn't really make sense. If the company can turn around security fixes in hours or days, and not weeks and months, then it works pretty well.
I looked at the first snapshot and... hmmm the tray app at the bottom looks a WHOLE LOT like OS/2's (not sure if it still looks this way, last I used was OS/2 Warp).
The whole point is that a packet is never sent twice. Or in other words, the originating server, the source, only transmits the data once. Not once for each receiving party.
The data then branches off from there. This would be quite suitably for updating mirror sites, since
They would all have downloaded the data anyhow.
They could all be scheduled to "tune in" to the multicast transmition at the same time (indiviual downloaders would have to be ready to receive at the same time as well).
One problem I could see is that this method of distribution for data files (versus video and audio) wouldn't scale well. Imagine one site drops a packet. Well it can't very well start over, since that same packet did possibly reach all the other listening parties. They are all expecting the NEXT packet, not a retransmit.
On an fast, fault tolerant network (major backbones, and obviously intranets) this works great (we use ImageCast at work to simulcast drive images to multiple systems) the bandwidth used is no more than if a single system was done one at a time. But on any network where packet loss and latency are a problem, thing would seriously hamper to practibility of the system.
So I say, multicast to a few hundred major FTP mirrors from the master server (redhat in this case), and then good ol' traditional FTP from there.
While the XBox may have superior performance over something like the Playstation2, think about what matters most in a game machine.... the games!
Microsoft's developers are all PC platform developers which means most of the games of the XBox are going to be nothing more than ports of PC Games (why wouldn't you just play them on the PC in the first place), whereas Sony has a huge developer base, experienced in developing CONSOLE titles. Sure, there's some overlap, some games play equally well on either console or PC, but some just flat out SUCK ported to console (Descent, Doom... need I say more?).
Just something to think about, the hardware alone cannot make the system. It takes software thats popular to drive a system to the top. Why do you think that the original playstation still has new titles coming out for it? It's certainly not the fastest/prettiest console out now... it's cause the system is popular, and it's popular cause it has a lot of games, and some extremely good ones.
It will be some time before the XBox gets enough really good titles behind it to do anything to the popularity of Sony's and Sega's systems.
Does anyone know what barcode format it reads?? I know there are several different formats but only a couple in widespread use (UPC labels, etc).
I'm 90% done with my I-Opener mods and this thing will go nicely with my idea of putting it in the kitchen. I'll set up some software so I can scan food items I've run out of and automatically generate a grocery list and maybe transfer it to a palm pilot. Or perhaps I could scan a few things that I do have and plug that into a recipe database and have it spit back out what meals I can make from those ingredients...
This is in addition to having a convenient place to quickly check mail and get my tech news fix from slashdot of course.
Slashdot Mirror
The poor little web server is going HAVE to go down now that you've slashdotted the hell out of it. =(
Hmm, add a lisp interpreter, elisa, and could you test a pair of these by having them coverse with eachother, each using different languages... man that would be wierd.
WELL SAID!!!!!!!
Everytime I do a search for a Widescreen set thats not HD, it comes up with a company in the UK... I think it's a conspiracy. There *are* a couple sold here but the price is astronomical compared to a normal set, almost near that of HDTV. The best I can say is, go for one of the HD-Ready sets. They are a little bit cheaper but at least your not paying for all the extra equipment which hasn't even been standardized yet.
Oh, I'd just love to see how the plan to detect my use of a PACKET SNIFFER... (passive listening device) Hey if someone sends a packet of data to my computer without my asking for it, it's obviously a gift (cuecat?) and I can do as I please with said packet =P ahahahhaha
Crap! No more a.b.p.e.* posts from me. Poeple the WORST this you can ever do is post on usenet with a REAL email adress. Can you say.... SPAM BAIT???
People scan it to build spam lists (wouldnt be surprised if sprint is doing it, and hence that clause in the TOS).
Hmmm... But:
Thank goodness it's Fiveday?
TGI-Fivedays?
Sevenday Drivers?
1 Linux box
2 NICs
IP NAT (ipchains)
Squid
Redir script
works like a charm...
As an added bonus, several banner-laded windows shareware apps pull adds with html and are also subjected to ad block, leaving nice peaceful empty white squares ;-)
HOWTO/Starter scripts available at:http://taz.net.au/block/
Squid can be gotten from
http://www.squid-cache.org
There at least 2 (maybe more) IR Remotes on the market that plug into the PS2's controller port and allow you to run the DVD functions with a nice little remote like you'd expect. They are both third-party products
- Saitek - Allows you to connect both controllers at once (has a pass-thru) but I've been told the IR control is weak and a couple of buttons are mis-labeled
- InterAct - Work's great but uses up one controller port (you'll need to yank it out every time you player 2P+ games) as well as blocks USB and iLink ports
If anyone knows of others let me know, I'm searching for that perfect one (Maybe sony will put one out?) I was kind of hoping my nice collection of 5 sony remotes would already do something with the damn thing (they control every other damn electronic thing in my placeThis goes even beyond the basic insecurities I'm sure you've all already posted about.
I just wanted to let you know just how pointless DHCP is here on mediaone (now AT&T broadband) in Massachusets. The nameserver here allowed me to a ZONE TRANSFER... yes thats right. It handed over a nice list of every host on the network... users and all. And since the names are usually based directly from MAC address, the IP doesn't even matter. This is a serious security problem that I've notified them about...
If you read the article you'd realize the system is not sampling quantitative values at 2+Mhz... what it does is the same as the switching powersupply in your PC does. It is switching a line-out voltage @2Mhz and then low-pass filtering the result at around 50khz. It is an interesting system. I'm curious why they didn't quote the dynamic range they can acheive..? This *IS* one area sorely lacking in audio recording. 24bit is decent, but 16bit doesn't quite provide enough range for demanding recordings. I'm guessing the bitstream system will yield significantly higher dynamic range.
I think the most common concern about releasing security sensitive source code (like metrocard, or anything related to transactions) is... "Hey, it'll be easier to crack if they can see how it works". It's a bit of a hurdle to overcome. Especially if we start talking about banking systems. The problem is no system can ever be completely secure. There will always be some way to break it, due to the nature of complex systems. The reasoning behind larger, more secretive systems is that if there will always be some flaws, let's not give them any easy way to find them. In some cases, if the code is reasonably secure to begin with, or if the application is extremely sensitive, open-sourcing doesn't really make sense. If the company can turn around security fixes in hours or days, and not weeks and months, then it works pretty well.
I looked at the first snapshot and... hmmm the tray app at the bottom looks a WHOLE LOT like OS/2's (not sure if it still looks this way, last I used was OS/2 Warp).
The data then branches off from there. This would be quite suitably for updating mirror sites, since
One problem I could see is that this method of distribution for data files (versus video and audio) wouldn't scale well. Imagine one site drops a packet. Well it can't very well start over, since that same packet did possibly reach all the other listening parties. They are all expecting the NEXT packet, not a retransmit.
On an fast, fault tolerant network (major backbones, and obviously intranets) this works great (we use ImageCast at work to simulcast drive images to multiple systems) the bandwidth used is no more than if a single system was done one at a time. But on any network where packet loss and latency are a problem, thing would seriously hamper to practibility of the system.
So I say, multicast to a few hundred major FTP mirrors from the master server (redhat in this case), and then good ol' traditional FTP from there.
While the XBox may have superior performance over something like the Playstation2, think about what matters most in a game machine.... the games!
Microsoft's developers are all PC platform developers which means most of the games of the XBox are going to be nothing more than ports of PC Games (why wouldn't you just play them on the PC in the first place), whereas Sony has a huge developer base, experienced in developing CONSOLE titles. Sure, there's some overlap, some games play equally well on either console or PC, but some just flat out SUCK ported to console (Descent, Doom... need I say more?).
Just something to think about, the hardware alone cannot make the system. It takes software thats popular to drive a system to the top. Why do you think that the original playstation still has new titles coming out for it? It's certainly not the fastest/prettiest console out now... it's cause the system is popular, and it's popular cause it has a lot of games, and some extremely good ones.
It will be some time before the XBox gets enough really good titles behind it to do anything to the popularity of Sony's and Sega's systems.
For those who were unable to make it, I took some photos and (to the best of my ability) wrote a quite peice on the event,
come check it out at http://sparecycles.net/stories/slash dot.html
Thanks... drop me a line if you like it.
Does anyone know what barcode format it reads?? I know there are several different formats but only a couple in widespread use (UPC labels, etc).
I'm 90% done with my I-Opener mods and this thing will go nicely with my idea of putting it in the kitchen. I'll set up some software so I can scan food items I've run out of and automatically generate a grocery list and maybe transfer it to a palm pilot. Or perhaps I could scan a few things that I do have and plug that into a recipe database and have it spit back out what meals I can make from those ingredients...
This is in addition to having a convenient place to quickly check mail and get my tech news fix from slashdot of course.