hmm. I noticed that, but I don;t have js disabled (in Firefox). I do have adblock, perhaps that's the problem, or perhaps FF is handling these redirect links differently (security reasons maybe?)
second the light grey, but I use an off-white instead. The creamy colour is still white-ish so doesn't look as nasty as grey but takes the edge off pure white. Hint: you need to take the tiniest amount off, too much and the little colour square you thought looked good will turn yellow on a large panel.
then it still beats me why we don't have a.xxx TLD. Apart from policies demanding no porn on non-XXX domains (at risk of having it revoked) it'd make the filtering software work, and produce a lot of revenue from porn operators.
Also add another TLD for gambling/betting sites, and you'd raise a ton of money.
I guess the problem is more political - ie the looney politicians who'd say it was just the internet being a den of terror for non-christian activities, not realising that all those things are already there, just hiding all over the place.
And they need to get rid of.com, produce a.us domain, and migrate all.com owners to a.co.us (or equivalent in their country of choice) and then stop registering any new ones. Firstly, we'd stop the scramble for everyone to go for the same.com domain (ie 2 companies in different countries want the same.com domain, whereas if they have a.co.uk and a.co.us they'd be satisfied) and also you'd be able to screw the multinationals out of more money by making them buy all the.co.xx domains they do business in.
Perhaps they did - and then MS said "we'd listen to you, but we gave loads of money to a lobbyist organisation who then gave it to the senator on your oversight committee, so bog off".
yes, but if you can drag yourself away from your narcissism, you'll find your girlfriend not only loves love stories, but love stories about sad relationships between 2 seriously hot men ('cos the movie-makers are always going to make a story about gay relationships involving 2 muscular cowboys rather than 2 fat nerds), and it also has the added attraction of some man-on-man action.
So you'd expect homosexual love stories can appeal to heterosexuals. Just like you wouldn't mind going to see 2 hot lesbian chicks fall in love (oh, you've already seen that one, yeah me too;)
Also a lot of heterosexual and homosexual people just like movies, sometimes you want something intellectually stimulating even if it has a gender-related subplot you still watch it for the main plot. OK, love stories don't fall into this category so much, but Milk (for example) may have a gay subplot but that's not what the story is about. Just like you can watch Malcolm X in an entirely white neighbourhood.
I know this is news because Intel has said its got a new product to launch for laptops, but full-definition HD is already being streamed wirelessly. Check out the top-end Panasonic Z1 plasma.
See a review(pdf) of the TV, which does mention the wireless aspects:
Streaming Full HD video and high-res audio is no mean feat. It takes considerable bandwidth to ensure a constant and clean feed of 1080p24 footage over 10 metres, yet the gizmos here perform that task admirably. Not once during testing was the signal interrupted or hampered by additional artefacts. Admittedly, I remained within the recommended catchment area, but it is highly unlikely that, with a set like this, you'll set the separate media box more than 32 feet away. And anywhere within that area offers as clean an image as a normal HDMI cable is capable. That's it. There's no more to it than that. To be honest, it's weird being so impressed by something actually doing what's it's meant to, but I am. And you will be too.
It uses WirelessHD which is (I guess) designed for home theatre, but it should work with any HDMI port - so your laptop could send out wireless signals using this too, it doesn't need any fancy processing from the CPU or OS (as if my cheapass DVD player works with it, my $2000 laptop should be able to!)
It doesn't have super range (32 feet), but it does 10Gbps by all accounts, and 4k support (that's 4x the resolution of 1080p) in the next version.
There's one thing it doesn't have - the developer mindshare. When someone's writing their PHP webapp, the first thing they think is "install MySql", not "install PostgreSQL".
Perhaps now they'll start to update the code and we'll get a LAPP stack instead of LAMP.
It'll be difficult to say who's using it because they download it, try it, run it.. all quietly without fuss. No-one at PostgreSQL website can say who's using the downloads because there's no licensing or even a 'email to get your registration' type stuff going on.
I can tell you that 3 large UK emergency service centres (the 911 callcentres) use PostgreSQL for handling the incoming 999 calls. Its been used for some time now and we've not had a major failure (I don't think we've had a single failure of any type come to that).
Taking calls for the emergency services is as serious as you can get. It's even more serious if you're the one who wants an ambulance!
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."
if its on the iPhone its probably got more games sold than the Windows, Mac, Linux and XBox platforms put together.
Mobile (and web) is still the growth area for all development, if you target tired old Windows desktop apps, you're effectively working in a niche area that will see your skills obsolete over time. Microsoft is trying to defend that with C#/.NET but its still just a new way of doing the same old things.
Tell that to the people who were calling my former employer, offering to buy portions of their/16 for substantial amounts of money.
did they require a handling fee to enable their lawyers to begin the transfer process?
"I'll buy your entire/16 for $15,035,955,122, but first, my good friend, I need just a small undertaking to be starting the transfer legal process, once I have received your small assistance in dealing with the lawyers who demand the insignificant sum of $1200 I shall immediately transfer the rest of the funds to your account for helping me with this. Please wire the money to me via Western Union and we can do good business with each other."
Not necessarily, big players such as Google or Microsoft would purchase large numbers for themselves, ostensibly to resell as value-add for their products. Imagine Microsoft purchasing 200 class A netblocks and then bundling an IP with every (legitimate) copy of Windows 8.
Of course, the rest of the world would scream foul, convert their machines to IPv6 and so I guess you'd be right - the problem would solve itself:)
you're looking at the chroot command, Linux has it too. It basically restricts an app to the directory and subdirs only, which only causes problems when they try to reach out of the jail to, say/tmp or/etc.
According to wikipedia, chroot has been around since... 1982.
(yes, FreeBSD jails are better, but still based on the same concept).
So where does this leave WebGL? Hopefully untarnished and free to become the de-facto web standard for vector graphics... oh, unless MS now decides that SVG support is sufficient and they don't need to support WebGL at all thus starting another "war" of which browser supports what features.
Disclaimer: I barely use my phone for texting, let alone all the other gubbins it can do.
I saw this video of multiplayer Quake running on a Nokia N900, its pretty cool - but what did it for me was that they had it hooked up to a big screen TV. Suddenly gaming on your phone doesn't seem such a bad idea, its like having a video console in your pocket (hopefully without a red ring of death).
You want a Network Media Player. eg an IcyBox MP305 but there are loads of other players based on the same chipset (realtek 1073), or the competitor (sigma erm.. something). They're all quite cheap - £80 or so (ie probably $80)
They all tend to have 1 or 2 USB ports for attaching an external HDD, an ethernet port to connect to your router, and HDMI and composite/optical outputs. They will stream quite happily from a DLNA server (eg PS3MediaServer, TVersity or Twonky) or a SMB share (thought setup can be tricky if you have any security on the share).
I love mine, it just works for all my, erm.. legitimately ripped backups of my DVD collection.
It looks like they're finally getting their act together in supporting TLS extensions (ie SNI, Server Name Indication) in Apache, so running multiple ssl domains on a single IP/port will work perfectly. You'll need to use Apache 2.2.13 (IIRC) and a browser that supports TLS (all but IE6, so no problem there)(there's a lovely test page for your browser, which includes the server config)
I'm not sure this version of Apache is in all distros yet, I think Fedora has it and Karmic Koala, but it'll be here soon enough in all of them.
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hmm. I noticed that, but I don;t have js disabled (in Firefox). I do have adblock, perhaps that's the problem, or perhaps FF is handling these redirect links differently (security reasons maybe?)
Well I meant actors who would not speak and would exist only for the sake of motion capture
You mean like Andy Serkis, my precioussssss.
depressing for the big stars who can no longer demand a jetplane or two as part of their fee...
We might get a few new talented actors working instead, Joe Wannabe as Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca 2.
That's got to be better than remaking a modern version of Casablanca with, say, Brad Pitt.
What if you want to add a small ASCII drawing to a comment?
You mean like this:
second the light grey, but I use an off-white instead. The creamy colour is still white-ish so doesn't look as nasty as grey but takes the edge off pure white. Hint: you need to take the tiniest amount off, too much and the little colour square you thought looked good will turn yellow on a large panel.
I'm not sure - but I'll know it when I see it :)
then it still beats me why we don't have a .xxx TLD. Apart from policies demanding no porn on non-XXX domains (at risk of having it revoked) it'd make the filtering software work, and produce a lot of revenue from porn operators.
Also add another TLD for gambling/betting sites, and you'd raise a ton of money.
I guess the problem is more political - ie the looney politicians who'd say it was just the internet being a den of terror for non-christian activities, not realising that all those things are already there, just hiding all over the place.
And they need to get rid of .com, produce a .us domain, and migrate all .com owners to a .co.us (or equivalent in their country of choice) and then stop registering any new ones. Firstly, we'd stop the scramble for everyone to go for the same .com domain (ie 2 companies in different countries want the same .com domain, whereas if they have a .co.uk and a .co.us they'd be satisfied) and also you'd be able to screw the multinationals out of more money by making them buy all the .co.xx domains they do business in.
I should have gone to business school :)
Perhaps they did - and then MS said "we'd listen to you, but we gave loads of money to a lobbyist organisation who then gave it to the senator on your oversight committee, so bog off".
yes, but if you can drag yourself away from your narcissism, you'll find your girlfriend not only loves love stories, but love stories about sad relationships between 2 seriously hot men ('cos the movie-makers are always going to make a story about gay relationships involving 2 muscular cowboys rather than 2 fat nerds), and it also has the added attraction of some man-on-man action.
So you'd expect homosexual love stories can appeal to heterosexuals. Just like you wouldn't mind going to see 2 hot lesbian chicks fall in love (oh, you've already seen that one, yeah me too ;)
Also a lot of heterosexual and homosexual people just like movies, sometimes you want something intellectually stimulating even if it has a gender-related subplot you still watch it for the main plot. OK, love stories don't fall into this category so much, but Milk (for example) may have a gay subplot but that's not what the story is about. Just like you can watch Malcolm X in an entirely white neighbourhood.
I know this is news because Intel has said its got a new product to launch for laptops, but full-definition HD is already being streamed wirelessly. Check out the top-end Panasonic Z1 plasma.
See a review(pdf) of the TV, which does mention the wireless aspects:
Streaming Full HD video and high-res audio is no mean feat. It takes considerable bandwidth to ensure a constant and clean feed of 1080p24 footage over 10 metres, yet the gizmos here perform that task admirably. Not once during testing was the signal interrupted or hampered by additional artefacts. Admittedly, I remained within the recommended catchment area, but it is highly unlikely that, with a set like this, you'll set the separate media box more than 32 feet away. And anywhere within that area offers as clean an image as a normal HDMI cable is capable. That's it.
There's no more to it than that. To be honest, it's weird being so impressed by something actually doing what's it's meant to, but I am. And you will be too.
It uses WirelessHD which is (I guess) designed for home theatre, but it should work with any HDMI port - so your laptop could send out wireless signals using this too, it doesn't need any fancy processing from the CPU or OS (as if my cheapass DVD player works with it, my $2000 laptop should be able to!)
It doesn't have super range (32 feet), but it does 10Gbps by all accounts, and 4k support (that's 4x the resolution of 1080p) in the next version.
There's one thing it doesn't have - the developer mindshare. When someone's writing their PHP webapp, the first thing they think is "install MySql", not "install PostgreSQL".
Perhaps now they'll start to update the code and we'll get a LAPP stack instead of LAMP.
It'll be difficult to say who's using it because they download it, try it, run it.. all quietly without fuss. No-one at PostgreSQL website can say who's using the downloads because there's no licensing or even a 'email to get your registration' type stuff going on.
I can tell you that 3 large UK emergency service centres (the 911 callcentres) use PostgreSQL for handling the incoming 999 calls. Its been used for some time now and we've not had a major failure (I don't think we've had a single failure of any type come to that).
Taking calls for the emergency services is as serious as you can get. It's even more serious if you're the one who wants an ambulance!
You want to look at SDL
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."
if its on the iPhone its probably got more games sold than the Windows, Mac, Linux and XBox platforms put together.
Mobile (and web) is still the growth area for all development, if you target tired old Windows desktop apps, you're effectively working in a niche area that will see your skills obsolete over time. Microsoft is trying to defend that with C#/.NET but its still just a new way of doing the same old things.
Tell that to the people who were calling my former employer, offering to buy portions of their /16 for substantial amounts of money.
did they require a handling fee to enable their lawyers to begin the transfer process?
"I'll buy your entire /16 for $15,035,955,122, but first, my good friend, I need just a small undertaking to be starting the transfer legal process, once I have received your small assistance in dealing with the lawyers who demand the insignificant sum of $1200 I shall immediately transfer the rest of the funds to your account for helping me with this. Please wire the money to me via Western Union and we can do good business with each other."
Not necessarily, big players such as Google or Microsoft would purchase large numbers for themselves, ostensibly to resell as value-add for their products. Imagine Microsoft purchasing 200 class A netblocks and then bundling an IP with every (legitimate) copy of Windows 8.
Of course, the rest of the world would scream foul, convert their machines to IPv6 and so I guess you'd be right - the problem would solve itself :)
you're looking at the chroot command, Linux has it too. /tmp or /etc.
It basically restricts an app to the directory and subdirs only, which only causes problems when they try to reach out of the jail to, say
According to wikipedia, chroot has been around since... 1982.
(yes, FreeBSD jails are better, but still based on the same concept).
Great, I just upgraded from XP to Windows 7 and now all my apps have to be run in XP Mode's virtual machines. Thanks Microsoft. :)
So where does this leave WebGL? Hopefully untarnished and free to become the de-facto web standard for vector graphics... oh, unless MS now decides that SVG support is sufficient and they don't need to support WebGL at all thus starting another "war" of which browser supports what features.
Not necessarily, if he means Silverlight (as it uses XAML as the markup 'code')
Disclaimer: I barely use my phone for texting, let alone all the other gubbins it can do.
I saw this video of multiplayer Quake running on a Nokia N900, its pretty cool - but what did it for me was that they had it hooked up to a big screen TV. Suddenly gaming on your phone doesn't seem such a bad idea, its like having a video console in your pocket (hopefully without a red ring of death).
You want a Network Media Player. eg an IcyBox MP305 but there are loads of other players based on the same chipset (realtek 1073), or the competitor (sigma erm.. something). They're all quite cheap - £80 or so (ie probably $80)
They all tend to have 1 or 2 USB ports for attaching an external HDD, an ethernet port to connect to your router, and HDMI and composite/optical outputs. They will stream quite happily from a DLNA server (eg PS3MediaServer, TVersity or Twonky) or a SMB share (thought setup can be tricky if you have any security on the share).
I love mine, it just works for all my, erm.. legitimately ripped backups of my DVD collection.
You can find a lot more information on them on my favourite AV forum
So the question is: WHO THE FUCK HAS BEEN HOGGING ALL MY IP ADDRESSES?
China and the Department of Defence.
It looks like they're finally getting their act together in supporting TLS extensions (ie SNI, Server Name Indication) in Apache, so running multiple ssl domains on a single IP/port will work perfectly. You'll need to use Apache 2.2.13 (IIRC) and a browser that supports TLS (all but IE6, so no problem there)(there's a lovely test page for your browser, which includes the server config)
I'm not sure this version of Apache is in all distros yet, I think Fedora has it and Karmic Koala, but it'll be here soon enough in all of them.
Doesn't really matter whether your desktop supports it if your home router doesn't.