Peter Sunde himself has mixed feelings about TPB AFK. In the end, he's not very happy with it...
On the one hand, the movie is great in terms of photography, editing, sound. The experience the viewer gets of the movie is kind of like a thriller. But on the other hand, it’s not my view of the things that actually happened during this period.
The film maker, Simon, who I consider a good friend, and I have different views of what the movie should be. It’s his film though so he makes all the shots. There are lots of scenes in the movie that are well edited to be something different than they are. This is all part of making a movie, drama is needed. I’m not happy with all of them, and I don’t like the dark and gloomy view that Simon has of the past years. The editor (whom I’ve never met, so he has no real idea of who I am, just what has been filmed of me) has cut the movie in a way that is very different from what I’ve experienced.
Here is an article in Dutch which includes a rendering of the island.
The capacity would be 300 MW, equivalent to a standard gas power station. It could provide electricity for 3 hours a day. This would be sufficient to intercept peak usage during morning and evening hours (1.5 hours each).
One of the contractors would be the Belgian dredging company which also worked on the Palm Islands in the United Arab Emirates. Building of the island would take around 2 years. Price: around 800 million euros.
No, that's not what they are talking about. This is about searching in the iTunes store: there is still no way to indicate you are searching for an app, a song or a TV series, and you get all of them in the search results. When in the iTunes store, the search field has no drop down.
And the drop down in the search field when browsing your library was already there in iTunes 10, with the All / Artist / Album / Composer / Song options. They just added the "Search Entire Library" option now.
On the bottom of the front page are 9 logos, Apple is not one of them. On the Stewards page are 10 organisations/companies, including Apple. But Apple is the only one without a link to a description/statement of the company. They seem to be the neglected stepchild here?
And Slasdot puts them first in the title, and categorizes the article in the Apple section:-)
Google has a maps app ready, and it's already submitted to Apple. The only thing holding it back is Apple approving it. So that may be next week, in a year (like they did with Google Voice) or never (under the "duplicates a native service" rule).
Great! Remember that all games from the current and previous Humble Indie Bundles (overview of all games) have a Linux version, and most of them are on Steam too. So that's already a nice range of games to start.
This is a drive-by attack exploiting a vulnerability in Java. It requires no interaction by the user, besides visiting a webpage. And in the past, we've seen malware being distributed via ad networks on reputable sites.
It does ask for the admin password, but even if you don't give it, it installs itself. If you supply the admin pw, the trojan is installed system-wide, if you don't, it's just installed for the current user.
That book may be considered a classic but is one of the poorest presentations of material I've ever seen to recommend to a beginner. It works better as a reference but even then thinking in those terms has a tendency to make you over engineer every damn thing unless you actively apply the KISS principle. A lot of the patterns covered are best shown to newbies with concrete examples rather than in generic theoretical form.
That's why I always recommend Head First Design Patterns (O'Reilly) to everyone. It has a great practical approach to teaching patterns, e.g. by starting with real world bad code, showing what's wrong with it, and then refactoring to a design pattern.
Some quotes: "Officials say Thursday's quake was a 7.4-magnitude and hit 25 miles (40 kilometers) under the water and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture." "Buildings as far away as Tokyo shook for about a minute." "The Japan meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one meter." "Hundreds of aftershocks have shaken the northeast region devastated by the March 11 earthquake, but few have been stronger than 7.0."
I use the pro version of SocialSafe, which costs $7. On this page is a table comparing the free and pro versions. I do keep the originals of my photo's on my pc, but I use this tool to preserve what I and others posted on my wall.
This bit I found interesting: "Apple computers tend to have very accessible Ad-Hoc functionality built in, including a pre-installed chat client (iChat) that will automatically set up an Ad-Hoc "Rendezvous" chatroom between anybody on the network, without the need for an external service like AIM or Skype. Ad-hoc network hosting functionality is built in to the Wifi menu." On Windows PCs, it's almost as easy, but it requires software which is not installed by default.
In Belgium, the official iPhone carrier is Mobistar. They still don't have Visual Voicemail, although I had a sales person assuring me they would "offer it soon." That was in 2008...
Their 30€ ($39)/month plan has a 200MB data cap (it also includes 3 hours of call time OR 300 sms messages)... 45€ gives you a 500MB cap, and 60€ 2GB.
Notice you still pay the full price (640€-750€) for an iPhone, as the phone isn't locked to the operator.
One of the great things about Wave was that it was an open protocol - you could set up your own server which could communicate with all other Wave servers. I really don't think Facebook is going to implement that part...
Still nothing on the front page yet, but the cd/dvd-images are available here.
Also, the realtime kernel options seems to be dropped in 10.10, see e.g. this post on the mailinglist. The maintainer has dropped support and nobody else has stepped up to take over his work...
The only one I'm aware of is Appleseed. It's also distributed, it's in development for several years now, has working beta-servers, and is probably much closer to a final release than Diaspora.
Ok, time to return to Appleseed, the distributed social networking software which already is in development for several years now, already has working beta-servers, and is probably much closer to a final release than Diaspora.
The Shuttle XS35GT is a fanless box with the new NVIDIA ION2 GPU, if you put a SSD drive in it it's 100% silent. It should be able to handle H.264 1080p without a problem. You can run Linux (e.g. XBMCbuntu) or Win7 with XBMC on it. It also supports a DVD, DVD-RW or Bluray drive.
Another option is the Xtreamer, I don't know much about it but it's cheap ($99, that's without a HD) and according to the site it can play 1080p (the new Apple TV only supports 720p). It has an option ("SideWinder") to attach external heat sinks to make it fanless.
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Peter Sunde himself has mixed feelings about TPB AFK. In the end, he's not very happy with it...
On the one hand, the movie is great in terms of photography, editing, sound. The experience the viewer gets of the movie is kind of like a thriller. But on the other hand, it’s not my view of the things that actually happened during this period.
The film maker, Simon, who I consider a good friend, and I have different views of what the movie should be. It’s his film though so he makes all the shots. There are lots of scenes in the movie that are well edited to be something different than they are. This is all part of making a movie, drama is needed. I’m not happy with all of them, and I don’t like the dark and gloomy view that Simon has of the past years. The editor (whom I’ve never met, so he has no real idea of who I am, just what has been filmed of me) has cut the movie in a way that is very different from what I’ve experienced.
Read Peter's complete review on his blog.
Here is an article in Dutch which includes a rendering of the island.
The capacity would be 300 MW, equivalent to a standard gas power station. It could provide electricity for 3 hours a day. This would be sufficient to intercept peak usage during morning and evening hours (1.5 hours each).
One of the contractors would be the Belgian dredging company which also worked on the Palm Islands in the United Arab Emirates. Building of the island would take around 2 years. Price: around 800 million euros.
I found this article, linked at the bottom of TFA, much easier to understand: Leprechauns and Laser Beams.
No, that's not what they are talking about. This is about searching in the iTunes store: there is still no way to indicate you are searching for an app, a song or a TV series, and you get all of them in the search results. When in the iTunes store, the search field has no drop down.
And the drop down in the search field when browsing your library was already there in iTunes 10, with the All / Artist / Album / Composer / Song options. They just added the "Search Entire Library" option now.
On the bottom of the front page are 9 logos, Apple is not one of them. On the Stewards page are 10 organisations/companies, including Apple. But Apple is the only one without a link to a description/statement of the company. They seem to be the neglected stepchild here?
And Slasdot puts them first in the title, and categorizes the article in the Apple section :-)
Google has a maps app ready, and it's already submitted to Apple. The only thing holding it back is Apple approving it. So that may be next week, in a year (like they did with Google Voice) or never (under the "duplicates a native service" rule).
Sources:
http://9to5mac.com/2012/09/20/google-has-an-ios-6-maps-app-awaiting-approval-it-is-solely-up-to-apple-to-approve/
http://mashable.com/2012/09/20/google-maps-ios-6-apple-approval-report/
Great!
Remember that all games from the current and previous Humble Indie Bundles (overview of all games) have a Linux version, and most of them are on Steam too. So that's already a nice range of games to start.
This is a drive-by attack exploiting a vulnerability in Java. It requires no interaction by the user, besides visiting a webpage. And in the past, we've seen malware being distributed via ad networks on reputable sites.
It does ask for the admin password, but even if you don't give it, it installs itself. If you supply the admin pw, the trojan is installed system-wide, if you don't, it's just installed for the current user.
Here's a nice explanation of the participant which reassembled four of the five documents, finishing in third place.
You should probably start burning your mail: What I learned from the DARPA Shredder Challenge.
That book may be considered a classic but is one of the poorest presentations of material I've ever seen to recommend to a beginner. It works better as a reference but even then thinking in those terms has a tendency to make you over engineer every damn thing unless you actively apply the KISS principle. A lot of the patterns covered are best shown to newbies with concrete examples rather than in generic theoretical form.
That's why I always recommend Head First Design Patterns (O'Reilly) to everyone. It has a great practical approach to teaching patterns, e.g. by starting with real world bad code, showing what's wrong with it, and then refactoring to a design pattern.
Here is a post by a Google VP about these issues. The Google-wide account ban was a myth.
Article: Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits off Japan coast
Some quotes: "Officials say Thursday's quake was a 7.4-magnitude and hit 25 miles (40 kilometers) under the water and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture." "Buildings as far away as Tokyo shook for about a minute." "The Japan meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one meter." "Hundreds of aftershocks have shaken the northeast region devastated by the March 11 earthquake, but few have been stronger than 7.0."
I use the pro version of SocialSafe, which costs $7. On this page is a table comparing the free and pro versions. I do keep the originals of my photo's on my pc, but I use this tool to preserve what I and others posted on my wall.
Chances of gmail wiping both due to the same glitch is remote.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. The two accounts will probably be hosted on the same server, chosen by the geolocation of your IP when you sign up.
Wired also has a wiki titled "Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Internet." It has some interesting thoughts on things like ad-hoc networking, satelite, and even packet radio.
This bit I found interesting: "Apple computers tend to have very accessible Ad-Hoc functionality built in, including a pre-installed chat client (iChat) that will automatically set up an Ad-Hoc "Rendezvous" chatroom between anybody on the network, without the need for an external service like AIM or Skype. Ad-hoc network hosting functionality is built in to the Wifi menu." On Windows PCs, it's almost as easy, but it requires software which is not installed by default.
It says so in the title...
In Belgium, the official iPhone carrier is Mobistar. They still don't have Visual Voicemail, although I had a sales person assuring me they would "offer it soon." That was in 2008...
Their 30€ ($39) /month plan has a 200MB data cap (it also includes 3 hours of call time OR 300 sms messages)... 45€ gives you a 500MB cap, and 60€ 2GB.
Notice you still pay the full price (640€-750€) for an iPhone, as the phone isn't locked to the operator.
One of the great things about Wave was that it was an open protocol - you could set up your own server which could communicate with all other Wave servers. I really don't think Facebook is going to implement that part...
Still nothing on the front page yet, but the cd/dvd-images are available here.
Also, the realtime kernel options seems to be dropped in 10.10, see e.g. this post on the mailinglist. The maintainer has dropped support and nobody else has stepped up to take over his work...
But no news on Ubuntu Studio yet. Last time (April 29th, 2010), it was released on the same day.
Edubuntu is released today.
The only one I'm aware of is Appleseed. It's also distributed, it's in development for several years now, has working beta-servers, and is probably much closer to a final release than Diaspora.
Ok, time to return to Appleseed, the distributed social networking software which already is in development for several years now, already has working beta-servers, and is probably much closer to a final release than Diaspora.
For those who don't know ureadahead, there's a good explanation by the developer on the Ubuntu forums.
The Shuttle XS35GT is a fanless box with the new NVIDIA ION2 GPU, if you put a SSD drive in it it's 100% silent. It should be able to handle H.264 1080p without a problem. You can run Linux (e.g. XBMCbuntu) or Win7 with XBMC on it. It also supports a DVD, DVD-RW or Bluray drive.
Another option is the Xtreamer, I don't know much about it but it's cheap ($99, that's without a HD) and according to the site it can play 1080p (the new Apple TV only supports 720p). It has an option ("SideWinder") to attach external heat sinks to make it fanless.
A good place for more information is the XBMC hardware forum.
This is from the news site of one of the mayor Belgian television/radio groups (VRT), they have a selection of articles in English.
Belgian investigators expose fraud
http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/news/100724_bank_fraud