Just look for a.torrent coming through a http proxy. When a.torrent is found, have the proxy start a btdownloadheadless and save the file locally, on the proxy.
How did this get modded insightful? Isolating children from peers and reality is not a good way to impart social skills. Communicating to them from a young age that they're special and better than other people is a negative towards producing functional adults.
My wife had very large breasts in high school. Wasn't her fault, it was those damn hormones. She had the biggest boobs in school.
High school boys would routinely try and make "3 pointers" down her blouse at school. It got to the point where she begged her mother to let her enroll in an all girls private catholic school.
At the all girls school, nobody kicked anyones ass, unless they wanted suspension. Everyone wore uniforms so there were no "fashion cliques", no "Jocks", no "nerds" Everyone was study focused and oriented, balanced with studies on religion and philosophy.
After that she never had any problems again. Before I met her I always thought it was bad to send kids to private schools, being that I went to all public myself. After hearing her experience though, I would have to agree with her. I wouldn't hesitate to isolate my daughter from a "problem" group
Can't remember the brand of cigarette, but their ads always featured some long legged model with the tagline "We've come a long way baby"
Using SSH and console is ok, when I just have to pop in really quick to edit some conf file, or tail -f some log. %80 of the time i'm doing this, it's pertaining to some clients web site i'm working on.
Guess what though? Do I fire up lynx to view my changes? Hell no! I use mozilla or IE, or some other html renderer. Do I create graphics or video from the console too? Hell no, I use some graphic program, with some nice gui, and pretty little icons everywhere BECAUSE I LIKE IT!!!!
Not only do I like it for that kind of work, I like it FAST! The faster the better!
Does it look like I care about leveraging old hardware for modern content? (shameless plug)
What I do use old equipment for is an ipcop firewall. I also use it to frankenstien together stepper motor interfaces because it IS old and I don't give a crap if it catches on fire because I wired something the wrong way.
Here's the whole wrapup to my post, i.e. the point. I read slashdot everyday, I build mosix clusters using plumpOS (couldn't remember the link sorry) My garage is filled from top to bottom with old computer crap because I know i'm not average joe sixpack user, and I will find a purpose for it even if it's just for research or fun. Average joe sixpack doesn't care about these things, he just wants his little clickety click icons to open up faster, or his OS to load quicker, or his games to run better.
And I sympathize with him %100. Thanks Joe sixpack for not taking the time to learn what I do, because I'm that car that stops outside your house to load up that PC you put out with your trash.
Can't remember the name of it, but I think it's been discussed on slash a few times for it's amazing special effects. Does anyone know the name of that british sci fi TV show that featured some guy dressed like Logan, from logans run, and he's getting chased around by inflatable weather balloons?
I also vaugly remember something about a town in that show.. I just remember it looking strange because the town itself looked like something out of disneyland.
Even in the commonplace situation, I would have thought it useful to use overseer-objects whose job it is to remove the extra (unnecessary) information from the problem before trying to solve it... There's no need to care about the avatar in sector (-1000,-1000) if we're currently in sector (0,0)...
Been there, seen that. Alternate Reality had a creature in place for doing just the thing you were describing above. Taken from the AR Faq.
The problem with this was that in the AR system each object was
unique (except commodities like food, money, gems) and had a structure with
attributes (like "spells" which were small intrepreted programs embedded in
objects). Those data structures took up memory (16 bytes to about 64 bytes)
and on an 8-bit 64K (or 48K) computer we had to limit the amount of items
somehow. The way we came up with that was least artificial was to introduce
a creature that would eat up objects when the object queue was getting full.
Actually DragonBall Z is a Japanese Anime. Ya but dragonball is a chinese CPU right? (hope i' not horribly mistaken, that would be the second time today!
China has an evil invader from space, Bill Frieza, who is seemingly unbeatable. China can either not fight Bill Frieza, in which case he will enslave them to fight smaller battles around the universe, or china can try and fight Bill Frieza and end up being anhiliated.
China's only hope is to gather together the 8 magical Dragonball CPU's to summon the Eternal OS, who will grant them one wish so they can defeat the evil Bill Frieza.
Will China be able to find all 8 Dragonball CPU's in time? Will Bill Frieza anhillate the earth? Find out next time on Dragonball Z!
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Well then you could probably do something two fold with existing technology then. I would think though as soon as the dust hits the rover it loses it's statit charge.
Laser printers have a film called a "fusor" that is electrostatically charged. It's green in color, and is built from a heat resistant material.
If it didn't have to be heat proof (like the mars rover panels) it could probably be made clear like a sheet of celophane.
When it goes into cleaning mode, the fusor plastic would start electrostatically charging, also charging the dust particles. Since 2 like polar charges repel, it would repel the dust off the fusor plastic.
Add that in with the vibrating motor, and you have yourself some clean windows.
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Use a Vibrator! No Really!
I've been reading all the other posts, Every idea from peelable plastic sheets to fans..
Just attatch a vibrating motor to the underside of the solar panels. When it's time for them to get clean, just raise them to a 90 degree angle, turn on the "orgasmotron vibrating motors" and shake the dust off?
Maybe I watch too much pr0n, but I'm sure that would work for the heavier dust. Especially since there was an earlier comment on how the engineers purposefully drive these things over rocks to shake off the larger dust particles.
One more thing, movable solar panels can track the sun, and give better light collecting efficiency than ones that just sit there stationary.
Bouyant cables, even in the best case, can't get you out of the atmosphere, so maybe 1000 km on the top side. The space cable has to reach geostationary orbit, some 35,785 km out. You lose:)
I was scared an anonymous coward was going to make me look bad, so I prayed to my lord and savior google christ.
Ohh Google, can you tell me info about "high altitude balloons"
That works, to a point. Once the atmosphere gets thin enough, you won't be able to get the floats to... float. Also, they have to keep air from leaking into their vacuum or helium interior. Over periods of years, decades, etc, *everything leaks*. A plane can have regular maintenance to re-vacuum/refill its floats, this would be much more of a pain for a space elevator.
Yes but at that point you could rely on the effects of centrifgul force and use lighter cables.
If I wanted to anologize/visualize this to something in nature, the first thing that pops into my mind is sea kelp forrest of Monteray Bay. Maybe a space elevator with bouyancy ballons would resemble that in construction.
I went to CCOC for a brief stint in my education for an electronics class. Our lab had 2 Hero's in it.
This was around 1989, 1990. I'm not sure if anyone else had battled robots before (maybe japanese anime?) but one day we when the teacher went out for a phone call we got it in our heads to arm the Hero's grip arm with hammers, and have gladitorial style combat.
By the time the teacher got back one Hero drove victory circles around the disabled hero. Couldn't warrenty the thing because of physical damage, so the teacher locked both hero's up in a closet for the rest of the semester.
Just a warning.. Geek teenagers + 2 > Robots - Teachers Presence = destruction.
At the bottom of the page they had 4 links, the one to popular science had this to say.
the 14-inch-tall RoboSapien, which will retail for about $80 when it hits stores later this year, uses analog transistors to react to signals from the world around it.
When the layoff started happening I must have gone through about 4 companies in 3 years. (Silicon valley, it was nuts here!) It even got to the point where I could "smell" when a layoff was going to occur for anyone. Sort of like how one minute all the zebra's are munchin grass, and the next minute, before the lion goes into chase mode, they all look at that one and say, "He's next to go!"
I got so sick of blurring my resume, lying, filling in the blanks, stretching out employment dates, overstating my job and depending on someone else for a paycheck that the last layoff was the last straw. I flipped my middle finger in the direction of all these guys "charging" me for doing my W-2 while they loaned themselves a mountain of company money to buy themselves a house while saying "Hey taxman, this isn't personal income, this is a "LOAN" from the company to me, haha on you"
So I started my own company. No big deal. Just go down to your city office, pay your business tax, and if you want a corporation (I went LLC) just have an agent like thecompanycompany.com fill out your paperwork with the state for about $800.
You know what you do for a living now right? Why not just offer it up to the general public with a real company. Call your old boss up and tell him you've started your own deal, and if he knows anyone looking for help. Chances are he'll hire you or pass your name around.
There was this other slashdot article a while back about going on your own. I recomend searching the archives for it.
Seems like during good times, the goverment can care less about what people do with their money because there is such an abundance of it.
Seems like during lean times the goverment is more than happy to call that change in your couch "income" and penalize you heavily for not declaring it.
Last week I get a call from another tech friend, "Hey toqer, I got this customer and they got infected with MyDoom. The NAV wasn't set to exclude the exchange store on the server, and it wiped out their calendaring info, the server needs all its logs rebuilt"
I asked him for more info. Logs rebuilt? WTF was he talking about? Apparently they had brought in an "Exchange Expert" to fix the problem. The guy spent about 2 days out there and didn't get anything done. After calling them I went out to see exactly what the problem was.
This office is a lawers office, and they're specialty is wills and trust funds. I was met by a really nice french woman at the door. "Toqer, please follow me and I will show you what the problem was"
She first showed me their main problem. Whenever they would try and modify the big bosses calendar, outlook would spit out some nonsense about unable to connect to his free/busy information. Second problem I noticed was the entire network was running on NT4.0, and the machines were all pentium1 class PC's. "Good thing this is hourly" I said to myself.
Looking at the NAV logs, it looked like it had deleted some files from d:\exchngsrv\mtadata (not exactly, this is best recolection) First thing I did was set NAV to exclude those folders. Good, done.. Now it was time to fix the problem itself.
Now I don't have the exact KB article, but the MS solution was to log in as the affected user. Backup his exchange store to personal folders. Use the exchng32 client to delete the calendar folder, then launch outlook with a/resetfolders switch, and finally re-upload his calendar from the PST. After doing it it worked and they were happy.
It took me 4 hours to fix it, nice little chunk o change in my pocket. Thanks MyDoom!
I wouldn't care too much about battery life though. I'm thinking just something that could be used for more embedded type applications, just in a nice neat package with a low res touchscreen lcd that could use the old hardware, maybe running PalmOS.
Network appliance file servers, in dash car Mp3 players, firewalls, or even thin clients for corporate use. Something that could be powered by lets say a brick or a cars electrical system.
Is it me, or does there seem to be an overabundance of old CPU's floating around out there? I'm sitting on at least 6 pentium 1 class CPU's here in my garage with speeds varying from 75-200mhz.
Looking at these old CPU relics, I remember how nice BeOS ran on the machines of the time. PalmOS=(PalmOS + some BeOS IP)
I think it would be a neat idea if someone made an affordable, upgradable, palm like device that could use these old CPU's. I mean, I know there must be millions of these things being used in less usefull roles, such as doorstops and monitor stands. It's a shame that all these pentium CPU's have more or less been "retired" or tossed into a landfill.
Sure a p-200 isn't that powerful of a CPU by todays standards of P4's and Athlons, but they have enough power to decode mp3's, compose e-mail, and surf the web.
I don't think it would be that expensive either to build a socketed palm device. Sure it would be a bit bulkier than new palms, but for small form factor geeks or just guys like me that have 30 years of computer crap in his garage it would be a godsend. Something the size and dimensions of a 3.5" hard drive only slightly thicker would be perfect.
Now go ahead and tell me about pc-104 devices, blah blah... Yes I know they exist, but they're not a single integrated device in sleek packaging.
Of course it works!! Here's a little fun with science you can make yourself that proves how this works.
What you need: 1 peice of paper. 1 speaker, connected to a stereo. some music.
Start by ripping the paper into little shreds and balling them up into tiny little balls. Next, take all the little balls and mash them together into one big ball.
Now if you have decent speakers you can just set the paperball mass on top of the cabinet. For those wussy computer speakers, I recomend turning it on it's side and placing the ball directly in the cone.
Now crank up your volume and watch what happens to those little balls. They start dancing around and the bigger ball falls apart! See! Now imagine that on a smaller scale, say ice crystal size. That is exactly what is happening to the hail when it gets sonically blasted.
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It doesn't seem that hard to create one.
.torrent coming through a http proxy. When a .torrent is found, have the proxy start a btdownloadheadless and save the file locally, on the proxy.
Just look for a
How did this get modded insightful?
Isolating children from peers and reality is not a good way to impart social skills. Communicating to them from a young age that they're special and better than other people is a negative towards producing functional adults.
My wife had very large breasts in high school. Wasn't her fault, it was those damn hormones. She had the biggest boobs in school.
High school boys would routinely try and make "3 pointers" down her blouse at school. It got to the point where she begged her mother to let her enroll in an all girls private catholic school.
At the all girls school, nobody kicked anyones ass, unless they wanted suspension. Everyone wore uniforms so there were no "fashion cliques", no "Jocks", no "nerds" Everyone was study focused and oriented, balanced with studies on religion and philosophy.
After that she never had any problems again. Before I met her I always thought it was bad to send kids to private schools, being that I went to all public myself. After hearing her experience though, I would have to agree with her. I wouldn't hesitate to isolate my daughter from a "problem" group
Can't remember the brand of cigarette, but their ads always featured some long legged model with the tagline "We've come a long way baby"
Using SSH and console is ok, when I just have to pop in really quick to edit some conf file, or tail -f some log. %80 of the time i'm doing this, it's pertaining to some clients web site i'm working on.
Guess what though? Do I fire up lynx to view my changes? Hell no! I use mozilla or IE, or some other html renderer. Do I create graphics or video from the console too? Hell no, I use some graphic program, with some nice gui, and pretty little icons everywhere BECAUSE I LIKE IT!!!!
Not only do I like it for that kind of work, I like it FAST! The faster the better!
Does it look like I care about leveraging old hardware for modern content? (shameless plug)
What I do use old equipment for is an ipcop firewall. I also use it to frankenstien together stepper motor interfaces because it IS old and I don't give a crap if it catches on fire because I wired something the wrong way.
Here's the whole wrapup to my post, i.e. the point. I read slashdot everyday, I build mosix clusters using plumpOS (couldn't remember the link sorry) My garage is filled from top to bottom with old computer crap because I know i'm not average joe sixpack user, and I will find a purpose for it even if it's just for research or fun. Average joe sixpack doesn't care about these things, he just wants his little clickety click icons to open up faster, or his OS to load quicker, or his games to run better.
And I sympathize with him %100. Thanks Joe sixpack for not taking the time to learn what I do, because I'm that car that stops outside your house to load up that PC you put out with your trash.
Can't remember the name of it, but I think it's been discussed on slash a few times for it's amazing special effects. Does anyone know the name of that british sci fi TV show that featured some guy dressed like Logan, from logans run, and he's getting chased around by inflatable weather balloons?
I also vaugly remember something about a town in that show.. I just remember it looking strange because the town itself looked like something out of disneyland.
Been there, seen that. Alternate Reality had a creature in place for doing just the thing you were describing above. Taken from the AR Faq.
Why am I on your freaks list?
Actually DragonBall Z is a Japanese Anime.
Ya but dragonball is a chinese CPU right? (hope i' not horribly mistaken, that would be the second time today!
China has an evil invader from space, Bill Frieza, who is seemingly unbeatable. China can either not fight Bill Frieza, in which case he will enslave them to fight smaller battles around the universe, or china can try and fight Bill Frieza and end up being anhiliated.
China's only hope is to gather together the 8 magical Dragonball CPU's to summon the Eternal OS, who will grant them one wish so they can defeat the evil Bill Frieza.
Will China be able to find all 8 Dragonball CPU's in time? Will Bill Frieza anhillate the earth? Find out next time on Dragonball Z!
Well then you could probably do something two fold with existing technology then. I would think though as soon as the dust hits the rover it loses it's statit charge.
Laser printers have a film called a "fusor" that is electrostatically charged. It's green in color, and is built from a heat resistant material.
If it didn't have to be heat proof (like the mars rover panels) it could probably be made clear like a sheet of celophane.
When it goes into cleaning mode, the fusor plastic would start electrostatically charging, also charging the dust particles. Since 2 like polar charges repel, it would repel the dust off the fusor plastic.
Add that in with the vibrating motor, and you have yourself some clean windows.
Use a Vibrator! No Really!
I've been reading all the other posts, Every idea from peelable plastic sheets to fans..
Just attatch a vibrating motor to the underside of the solar panels. When it's time for them to get clean, just raise them to a 90 degree angle, turn on the "orgasmotron vibrating motors" and shake the dust off?
Maybe I watch too much pr0n, but I'm sure that would work for the heavier dust. Especially since there was an earlier comment on how the engineers purposefully drive these things over rocks to shake off the larger dust particles.
One more thing, movable solar panels can track the sun, and give better light collecting efficiency than ones that just sit there stationary.
--toq
That was 82000 FEET = 15 miles.
Dang, I must REALLY loook stupid now! *ducks*
Bouyant cables, even in the best case, can't get you out of the atmosphere, so maybe 1000 km on the top side. The space cable has to reach geostationary orbit, some 35,785 km out. You lose :)
I was scared an anonymous coward was going to make me look bad, so I prayed to my lord and savior google christ.
Ohh Google, can you tell me info about "high altitude balloons"
And the good lord google said: even my children have flown over 82,000+ miles or 131962.6 kilometers using boyancy, which is way above AC's stated 35,785 km geostationary orbit my child.
So lord google, what is the altitude for geostationary orbit?
And the lord google replied: 35,787 km above mean sea level.
Google Christ is so smart.
That works, to a point. Once the atmosphere gets thin enough, you won't be able to get the floats to... float. Also, they have to keep air from leaking into their vacuum or helium interior. Over periods of years, decades, etc, *everything leaks*. A plane can have regular maintenance to re-vacuum/refill its floats, this would be much more of a pain for a space elevator.
Yes but at that point you could rely on the effects of centrifgul force and use lighter cables.
If I wanted to anologize/visualize this to something in nature, the first thing that pops into my mind is sea kelp forrest of Monteray Bay. Maybe a space elevator with bouyancy ballons would resemble that in construction.
Dang, over 300,000 geeks on slashdot and i'm the first to say this!
Why not create a chain of bouyant cables instead of focusing on strong and light ones made from carbon nanotubes??
Obligitory King Arthur reference,
If it doesn't float, and it's not made from wood, IT MUST BE A WITCH! BURN HER!
I went to CCOC for a brief stint in my education for an electronics class. Our lab had 2 Hero's in it.
This was around 1989, 1990. I'm not sure if anyone else had battled robots before (maybe japanese anime?) but one day we when the teacher went out for a phone call we got it in our heads to arm the Hero's grip arm with hammers, and have gladitorial style combat.
By the time the teacher got back one Hero drove victory circles around the disabled hero. Couldn't warrenty the thing because of physical damage, so the teacher locked both hero's up in a closet for the rest of the semester.
Just a warning.. Geek teenagers + 2 > Robots - Teachers Presence = destruction.
At the bottom of the page they had 4 links, the one to popular science had this to say.
the 14-inch-tall RoboSapien, which will retail for about $80 when it hits stores later this year, uses analog transistors to react to signals from the world around it.
How is this different from the aibo?
Depends on where you are in life but..
When the layoff started happening I must have gone through about 4 companies in 3 years. (Silicon valley, it was nuts here!) It even got to the point where I could "smell" when a layoff was going to occur for anyone. Sort of like how one minute all the zebra's are munchin grass, and the next minute, before the lion goes into chase mode, they all look at that one and say, "He's next to go!"
I got so sick of blurring my resume, lying, filling in the blanks, stretching out employment dates, overstating my job and depending on someone else for a paycheck that the last layoff was the last straw. I flipped my middle finger in the direction of all these guys "charging" me for doing my W-2 while they loaned themselves a mountain of company money to buy themselves a house while saying "Hey taxman, this isn't personal income, this is a "LOAN" from the company to me, haha on you"
So I started my own company. No big deal. Just go down to your city office, pay your business tax, and if you want a corporation (I went LLC) just have an agent like thecompanycompany.com fill out your paperwork with the state for about $800.
You know what you do for a living now right? Why not just offer it up to the general public with a real company. Call your old boss up and tell him you've started your own deal, and if he knows anyone looking for help. Chances are he'll hire you or pass your name around.
There was this other slashdot article a while back about going on your own. I recomend searching the archives for it.
Seems like during good times, the goverment can care less about what people do with their money because there is such an abundance of it.
Seems like during lean times the goverment is more than happy to call that change in your couch "income" and penalize you heavily for not declaring it.
at the superbowl own the beatles recordings at one point?
This could have happened to anyone I guess....
/resetfolders switch, and finally re-upload his calendar from the PST. After doing it it worked and they were happy.
Last week I get a call from another tech friend, "Hey toqer, I got this customer and they got infected with MyDoom. The NAV wasn't set to exclude the exchange store on the server, and it wiped out their calendaring info, the server needs all its logs rebuilt"
I asked him for more info. Logs rebuilt? WTF was he talking about? Apparently they had brought in an "Exchange Expert" to fix the problem. The guy spent about 2 days out there and didn't get anything done. After calling them I went out to see exactly what the problem was.
This office is a lawers office, and they're specialty is wills and trust funds. I was met by a really nice french woman at the door. "Toqer, please follow me and I will show you what the problem was"
She first showed me their main problem. Whenever they would try and modify the big bosses calendar, outlook would spit out some nonsense about unable to connect to his free/busy information. Second problem I noticed was the entire network was running on NT4.0, and the machines were all pentium1 class PC's. "Good thing this is hourly" I said to myself.
Looking at the NAV logs, it looked like it had deleted some files from d:\exchngsrv\mtadata (not exactly, this is best recolection) First thing I did was set NAV to exclude those folders. Good, done.. Now it was time to fix the problem itself.
Now I don't have the exact KB article, but the MS solution was to log in as the affected user. Backup his exchange store to personal folders. Use the exchng32 client to delete the calendar folder, then launch outlook with a
It took me 4 hours to fix it, nice little chunk o change in my pocket. Thanks MyDoom!
I wouldn't care too much about battery life though. I'm thinking just something that could be used for more embedded type applications, just in a nice neat package with a low res touchscreen lcd that could use the old hardware, maybe running PalmOS.
Network appliance file servers, in dash car Mp3 players, firewalls, or even thin clients for corporate use. Something that could be powered by lets say a brick or a cars electrical system.
Is it me, or does there seem to be an overabundance of old CPU's floating around out there? I'm sitting on at least 6 pentium 1 class CPU's here in my garage with speeds varying from 75-200mhz.
Looking at these old CPU relics, I remember how nice BeOS ran on the machines of the time. PalmOS=(PalmOS + some BeOS IP)
I think it would be a neat idea if someone made an affordable, upgradable, palm like device that could use these old CPU's. I mean, I know there must be millions of these things being used in less usefull roles, such as doorstops and monitor stands. It's a shame that all these pentium CPU's have more or less been "retired" or tossed into a landfill.
Sure a p-200 isn't that powerful of a CPU by todays standards of P4's and Athlons, but they have enough power to decode mp3's, compose e-mail, and surf the web.
I don't think it would be that expensive either to build a socketed palm device. Sure it would be a bit bulkier than new palms, but for small form factor geeks or just guys like me that have 30 years of computer crap in his garage it would be a godsend. Something the size and dimensions of a 3.5" hard drive only slightly thicker would be perfect.
Now go ahead and tell me about pc-104 devices, blah blah... Yes I know they exist, but they're not a single integrated device in sleek packaging.
That said, I'm really curious if it even works.
Of course it works!! Here's a little fun with science you can make yourself that proves how this works.
What you need:
1 peice of paper.
1 speaker, connected to a stereo.
some music.
Start by ripping the paper into little shreds and balling them up into tiny little balls. Next, take all the little balls and mash them together into one big ball.
Now if you have decent speakers you can just set the paperball mass on top of the cabinet. For those wussy computer speakers, I recomend turning it on it's side and placing the ball directly in the cone.
Now crank up your volume and watch what happens to those little balls. They start dancing around and the bigger ball falls apart! See! Now imagine that on a smaller scale, say ice crystal size. That is exactly what is happening to the hail when it gets sonically blasted.
Should have taught the dell dude how to smoke weed and not get caught.
Who else hates those fucking lame ass "dell interns"? Bring back the dell dude please!