I'd define some standard 'real world' problems that can be run using open-source software, and simply take total accumulative runtime to solve them to be the score. For one benchmark, I'd suggest OpenFoam to run a Direct Eddy Simulation of turbulent flow around a bluff body. I'm sure others could come up with things in the field of cryptography, protein-folding, travelling salesmen, etc, etc.
1. Find yourself a web hosting provider that allows SSH login. 2. Use sshfs to mount your web-hosting space as a drive. 3. Use Truecrypt (or other) to run an encrypted file container on your web-hosting space.
Currently if Firefox comes across a html5 video using an unsupported codec, it already allows you to play the video in an external player or save the video. The problem is the HTML5 Javascript function canPlayType(); things like the Youtube trial detect that h264 isn't natively supported so the javascript never dynamically creates the VIDEO tag.
Downloaded the Firefox source and edit content/html/content/src/nsHTMLMediaElement.cpp. Change the line
case CANPLAY_NO: aResult.AssignLiteral(""); break;
to
case CANPLAY_NO: aResult.AssignLiteral("probably"); break;
If you recompile the browser then join the youtube html5 beta, it will now try to serve you video via html5. At this stage the video is "protected" behind a transparent DIV so you can't right-click it. Use Firebug, or the following Greasemonkey script to delete the DIV.
You now have a version of Firefox 'compatible' with Youtube's HTML5. Currently it doesn't work with Vimeo's HTML5 beta and I haven't bothered to find out why.
Exchange rates are probably a poor method for comparison, not really reflecting the relative burden to the people who actually pay it. It might be a more accurate reflection to quote the figures relative to local prices for a basic item.
Unfortunately wrap, htmlization and all that marlaky is a general problem when it comes to signing via web interfaces, be it gmail or some generic php webforum. I came across the same issue when I made a few comments in relation to the now stillborn EnigWeb project.
Perhaps it's time for a GPG-wide standard for 'verification-lite', aimed at web-traffic. The idea being to trade a small amount of security for method robustness. Rather than signing a bit-for-bit copy, sign a version where anything other than the main visible characters are ignored. New lines, carriage returns, tabs, multiple consecutive spaces, rare symbols that might by mangled by php scripts: all are ignored. So rather singing:
The cat sat on the mat.
, you sign instead: 'Thecatsatonthemat.'.
Obviously, greater minds than mine need to sit down and assess the pros, cons and risks (more freedom to try and create collisions), but it strikes me as an idea worth considering.
After investing in a Hauppauge card, I tried using MythTV. While I understand why the interface is as it is, as it's primarily designed for use via a remote, I have to say I found the experience infuriating. Driving it with a keyboard & mouse, nothing ever did what I expected it to, or worse, frequently doing the opposite. Overall, I found window's Team Media portal a much more pleasurable experience.
Except the reliability of the hardware under windows is fairly woeful, TMP outputs in the annoying MS-DVR format, and (for me) TMP's terrible sync issues.
So now I use dvbstream, mplayer and a few perl scripts I knocked together. It all just works. I've happily traded the ability to channel hop, and the fancy EPGs, for a recording reliability of near 100%.
"Does anyone know how to browse the eMusic catalog without signing up (i.e., giving them your credit card info)?"
The splash-screen is a bit of a silly design. To bypass it, click one of the boring-looking links at the bottom. For example, 'About eMusic' takes you to http://www.emusic.com/about/index.html?fref=700736
Or people like me who talk about winter weather relative to 0C, and summer weather relative to 100F. Convenient to remember/judge numbers seem to be the key to people's preference for scales.
It's not been updated for a while (four years and counting), but I've yet to find something that surpasses Exifer for Windows in both being powerful and usable.
"I wish Windows had a feature like Fedora's multiple desktop stuff with the 4 thumbnails, as this would help me split stuff up better since half my taskbar is taken up with quick launch shortcuts or status bar icons I need on display."
MS offer a 'virtual desktop manager' on their XP Powertoys page, but it's a rather lame implementation.
Quite. As far as I'm concerned, Firefox and co are broken, if only due to a lack of consistancy. New window allows a choice between blank or homepage, new tab doesn't. Is used to work, and the browser.tab.loadOnNewTab settings remains on about:config, it's now merely ignored for some reason.
Prof. is of course still very much an abbreviation of professor. However, Mr seems to have also become a word in its own right, while the full Mister is a relatively rare sight. Mrs. is an even better example. nobody but nobody goes around calling women Mistress Smith.
I think the point isn't that Bush has started a war just so that Halliburton can get a load of money, it's about why Halliburton got the contract instead of other companies - are they really the best or did they just get it as a favour for Cheney?
...at the cinema a couple of weeks back. (before Road to Perdition. Now if only I could actually find a cinema showing Donnie Darko, but that's a story for another time.) I can't say I was over excited, a few bits didn't seem "right", almost as if they where trying to aim it at the action flick audience. Like when they jump some buggy thing off a cliff in to the back of a shuttle! Um......
If I'm understanding it right... It seems that while it is modelling 4D space, it's stil only displaying 3D at any given time. The question is, can you extend the mathematics of displaying 3D on a 2D screen, to displaying 4D on a (not yet available) 3D holigraphical projector?
Never used one in a shop but a couple of mail companies have started to have PDAs things to use for stuff you have to sign for. However, they're so unwieldy to use, theres no danger of my "signature" being of use to anyone!!
I'm not a royalist (I watched a grand total of zero seconds of the Jubilee coverage) but I say keep the monarcy. As the saying goes "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely". Keep the Queen (or eventually the King) and make sure that there's always somebody above the Goverment who they have to answer to directly (as opposed to answering to just the voters once every four years or so).
Its not as if the cost is crippling - £8million a year. This is no doubt a lot to me and you, but is just 15p per person or 0.012% of the 54 billion spend a year on the NHS.
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I'd define some standard 'real world' problems that can be run using open-source software, and simply take total accumulative runtime to solve them to be the score. For one benchmark, I'd suggest OpenFoam to run a Direct Eddy Simulation of turbulent flow around a bluff body. I'm sure others could come up with things in the field of cryptography, protein-folding, travelling salesmen, etc, etc.
1. Find yourself a web hosting provider that allows SSH login.
2. Use sshfs to mount your web-hosting space as a drive.
3. Use Truecrypt (or other) to run an encrypted file container on your web-hosting space.
Downloaded the Firefox source and edit content/html/content/src/nsHTMLMediaElement.cpp.
Change the line
to
If you recompile the browser then join the youtube html5 beta, it will now try to serve you video via html5. At this stage the video is "protected" behind a transparent DIV so you can't right-click it. Use Firebug, or the following Greasemonkey script to delete the DIV.
You now have a version of Firefox 'compatible' with Youtube's HTML5. Currently it doesn't work with Vimeo's HTML5 beta and I haven't bothered to find out why.
Exchange rates are probably a poor method for comparison, not really reflecting the relative burden to the people who actually pay it. It might be a more accurate reflection to quote the figures relative to local prices for a basic item.
Unfortunately wrap, htmlization and all that marlaky is a general problem when it comes to signing via web interfaces, be it gmail or some generic php webforum. I came across the same issue when I made a few comments in relation to the now stillborn EnigWeb project.
Perhaps it's time for a GPG-wide standard for 'verification-lite', aimed at web-traffic. The idea being to trade a small amount of security for method robustness. Rather than signing a bit-for-bit copy, sign a version where anything other than the main visible characters are ignored. New lines, carriage returns, tabs, multiple consecutive spaces, rare symbols that might by mangled by php scripts: all are ignored. So rather singing:
The cat sat on
the mat.
, you sign instead: 'Thecatsatonthemat.'.
Obviously, greater minds than mine need to sit down and assess the pros, cons and risks (more freedom to try and create collisions), but it strikes me as an idea worth considering.
After investing in a Hauppauge card, I tried using MythTV. While I understand why the interface is as it is, as it's primarily designed for use via a remote, I have to say I found the experience infuriating. Driving it with a keyboard & mouse, nothing ever did what I expected it to, or worse, frequently doing the opposite. Overall, I found window's Team Media portal a much more pleasurable experience.
Except the reliability of the hardware under windows is fairly woeful, TMP outputs in the annoying MS-DVR format, and (for me) TMP's terrible sync issues.
So now I use dvbstream, mplayer and a few perl scripts I knocked together. It all just works. I've happily traded the ability to channel hop, and the fancy EPGs, for a recording reliability of near 100%.
Spamhaus 'lost' because they didn't accept jurisdiction, so did not turn up. The judge had no option but to give a default ruling in favour of e360.
I'd argue it's not even that. It's for when you know/suspect they've been naughty but can't prove it, so you create ever simpler-to-prove offences.
"Does anyone know how to browse the eMusic catalog without signing up (i.e., giving them your credit card info)?"
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The splash-screen is a bit of a silly design. To bypass it, click one of the boring-looking links at the bottom. For example, 'About eMusic' takes you to http://www.emusic.com/about/index.html?fref=70073
Or people like me who talk about winter weather relative to 0C, and summer weather relative to 100F. Convenient to remember/judge numbers seem to be the key to people's preference for scales.
It's not been updated for a while (four years and counting), but I've yet to find something that surpasses Exifer for Windows in both being powerful and usable.
/
http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer
"I wish Windows had a feature like Fedora's multiple desktop stuff with the 4 thumbnails, as this would help me split stuff up better since half my taskbar is taken up with quick launch shortcuts or status bar icons I need on display."
MS offer a 'virtual desktop manager' on their XP Powertoys page, but it's a rather lame implementation.
Interestingly enough, as well as a common driver (as pointed out in the post above), both vehicles had their aerodynamics designed by Ron Ayers.
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http://www.jcbdieselmax.com/html/team.php?team_id
Quite. As far as I'm concerned, Firefox and co are broken, if only due to a lack of consistancy. New window allows a choice between blank or homepage, new tab doesn't. Is used to work, and the browser.tab.loadOnNewTab settings remains on about:config, it's now merely ignored for some reason.
It's about time somebody started an open source equivalent of Stunt Island, but expanded to the whole range of movie requirements....
Prof. is of course still very much an abbreviation of professor. However, Mr seems to have also become a word in its own right, while the full Mister is a relatively rare sight. Mrs. is an even better example. nobody but nobody goes around calling women Mistress Smith.
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
http://www.naturalbornviewers.com/archive/p/primer /review.htm
Radio1 dance music? uggghh, shoot me. BBC 6Music any day of the week...
I think the point isn't that Bush has started a war just so that Halliburton can get a load of money, it's about why Halliburton got the contract instead of other companies - are they really the best or did they just get it as a favour for Cheney?
...at the cinema a couple of weeks back. (before Road to Perdition. Now if only I could actually find a cinema showing Donnie Darko, but that's a story for another time.) I can't say I was over excited, a few bits didn't seem "right", almost as if they where trying to aim it at the action flick audience. Like when they jump some buggy thing off a cliff in to the back of a shuttle! Um......
If I'm understanding it right... It seems that while it is modelling 4D space, it's stil only displaying 3D at any given time. The question is, can you extend the mathematics of displaying 3D on a 2D screen, to displaying 4D on a (not yet available) 3D holigraphical projector?
Never used one in a shop but a couple of mail companies have started to have PDAs things to use for stuff you have to sign for. However, they're so unwieldy to use, theres no danger of my "signature" being of use to anyone!!
I'm not a royalist (I watched a grand total of zero seconds of the Jubilee coverage) but I say keep the monarcy.
As the saying goes "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely". Keep the Queen (or eventually the King) and make sure that there's always somebody above the Goverment who they have to answer to directly (as opposed to answering to just the voters once every four years or so).
Its not as if the cost is crippling - £8million a year. This is no doubt a lot to me and you, but is just 15p per person or 0.012% of the 54 billion spend a year on the NHS.
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