It's true that Hulu doesn't allow VPNs, but for a different, and potentially subtle (to some) reason. Some of their content agreements are likely region locked. Want to watch TV shows in the US market? Must come from an IP address that some third party company they contract with believes was recently physically located in the US. There are all kinds of problems with this, but it's not really about net neutrality. It's about content providers wishing to control who can access which media after how much delay and at what price. Call it content neutrality possibly?
As an owner of a small ISP, it's remarkably difficult to get all of the various third party "geo IP" type services to correctly categorize your IPs. And if you are using any type of carrier grade NAT, fuggidaboutit. Sorry for the topic creep.
The methodology to verify the data used in the paper was to perform their own scans of networks that were known to have hosts, and then compare the results to the published 2012 internet census data. They got a high match rate. I evaluated the data slightly differently. I scanned network segments that I know to be empty, unused, or entirely behind firewalls. In these cases (for segments/24 and larger) there are still records in the internet census data. These records are completely made up. Try going to the search engine and typing in a network you know to be completely empty as scanned from the outside. A network that has been allocated but never used would be best. It's a lot of fun, and shows the internet census data is partially falsified and likely to be of no scientific value. Don't avoid the data becuse it's immoral, just avoid it because it's incorrect.
As someone that used to work with mobile security - this is tiny minority that got caught. If you carry your mobile phone with you, then you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. Treat your smartphone as a combination of public WiFi and a court-assigned GSP tracking ankle bracelet.
This. The entire business model of the internet has shifted to one of sharing geolocation, identity, and preference data that many people would consider private if given the opportunity to provide or withhold their informed consent. We do know that our phones are on the internet, right?
I seem to have stopped the bleeding for the moment. At some point in the upgrade path the memory footprint seems to have grown a bit. Time to upgrade the toaster that runs the website, obviously!
--Your friendly playstation2-linux.com sysadmin.
P.S. I would appreciate it if in the future/. could warn me in advance so I know to have lunch delivered to my desk:)
The HDD is incompatible with games, however your PlayStation(r) 2 can still play games just fine. Just wanted to make sure people don't get the wrong idea. Also, it turns out that it is possible to boot your kit the first time on a TV, you just have to hold the appropriate keys down on your DualShock controller at boot time. Check out the faq.
I still recommend a monitor though. TVs aren't the greatest when it comes to reading text.
-Adam Bertsch Sr. Systems Administrator Sony Computer Entertainment America
Whoops. That'll teach me to head out to lunch with a/. story pending. Postgres usually survives a/.ing, but I guess today's readers were just particularly enthusiastic. It's back now, of course.
If by "big plane" you mean airliner, they have a far better glide ratio than a "small plane" if by small plane you mean cessna. Airliners have glide ratios in the neighborhood of 20:1. Their airframes are designed to be very, very efficient.
Cessna 172: 8.6 to 1 Cessna 182: 10 to 1 Mooney 231: 12 to 1 Boeing 727-200: 16.4 to 1 Douglas DC-9: 16.5 to 1 Boeing 767-200: 19 to 1 Albatross (the bird, not the plane): 20 to 1 Grob 102 Glide: 36 to 1
This isn't entirely accurate. It actually is illegal to fly an aircraft over a densely populated area a) Less than 1000 feet above the highest structure within 2000 feet laterally, b) In such a way that in the event of an emergency a landing can be made without endangering any persons or property on the surface. It doesn't matter what altitude you're at, if you aren't satisfying (b) then you're breaking the law.
In the case of these guys, they were obviously flying over interstate highways, which in a major population center can be your best option for an emergency landing... so I'd say they were doing a-ok.
What do you mean "except for the hack value"? The hack value here is extreme! However, that's not the only point. What you get with Linux (for Playstation 2) is system manuals for previously secret playstation 2 hardware components, and an interface to write code for them. Sony is releasing a lot of software and documentation that was previously only available to licensed developers. If you have an interest in developing console games/applications, the kit can really jumpstart your knowledge and experience.
" Oh, another note to Sony: The keyboard with the 8' long cable is a GREAT idea. BUT NOT IF THE MOUSE ONLY HAS A 3' CABLE."
Of course there's a USB hub built in to the keyboard, with a port on the side of the keyboard designed specifically for the mouse. Who would have though?:-P
Depending on what you measure the PS2 is either faster than any modern PC (FLOPS), or about as fast as a two-year-old intel box (desktop applications)... But it's defiantely a good box for graphics. The max resolution is 1280x1024 true color at 75 hz. Not bad for a box that is intended to work on a TV.
The code on the bootloader, which runs before the kernel gets loaded, is basically a NT-like hardware abstraction layer that prevents you from getting direct register-level access to the GS (graphics/sound coprocessor) chip
That's not entirely true. The GS is the Graphics Synthesizer, and has nothing to do with sound. It's completely accessable. The SPU, for sound, has an interface. You probably want to check out the faq.
Many of the questions posed in the forum are answered in the FAQ at http://playstation2-linux.com/faq.php. I'll try to answer other questions as time allows, but I'm at LWCE today. Stop by and say Hi if you like, I'll be in the Sony booth. I've made some performance tweaks to the website, let's see if we can avoid slashdotting for a little longer...
I would guess that Ebay can't afford to inspect each and every M$ software auction to verify an unopened retail box, or original M$ media. In the interest of not being buried under 100 tons of M$ lawsuit for failing to inspect one illegitamate auction, Ebay is deciding to end all auctions that M$ complains about. It's not fair, but it may be the only choice they have.
Ebay is a business. It's not financially sound for them to do anything besides what they are doing. Now is it right for M$ to put them in this position? Probably not. But somehow I don't see the government doing anything to stop them, and I don't see any private party with the required legal and financial backing to stop them.
We use the netscape messaging server here. This was a compromise between the exchange solution that some people wanted, with all of the coporate wightbehind it, and the sendmail/unix open source solution that other might prefer. So far we've had pretty good success with netscape messaging server using Netscape's enterprise LDAP server as a directory on the backend. There's a pretty gui to show the boss and a great Perl interface for LDAP for myself.
On our unix shell server users can connect to the messaging server via IMAP, and they can look each other up in the database as well from within pine. Obviously there's a nice interface to Netscape Communicator as well.
We also have a microsoft exchange mail server here. It's using a number of multiprocessor 300mhz PentiumII boxes, it cost us a fortune, and in my humble opinion doesn't provide the level of service we get from our messaging server.
If a simple sendmail/unix setup won't work for your managers or your environment, you might want to give this a try.
Slashdot Mirror
Marty McFly would be so proud.
It's true that Hulu doesn't allow VPNs, but for a different, and potentially subtle (to some) reason. Some of their content agreements are likely region locked. Want to watch TV shows in the US market? Must come from an IP address that some third party company they contract with believes was recently physically located in the US. There are all kinds of problems with this, but it's not really about net neutrality. It's about content providers wishing to control who can access which media after how much delay and at what price. Call it content neutrality possibly?
As an owner of a small ISP, it's remarkably difficult to get all of the various third party "geo IP" type services to correctly categorize your IPs. And if you are using any type of carrier grade NAT, fuggidaboutit. Sorry for the topic creep.
At least it's only half of the entire country. Talk about a lot of glass is half empty comments...
Too soon. It's the half of the country that has a credit history. Not comforting.
Insider trading on the other hand...
Also goes unpunished. Just don't lie to the FBI, because then you're going to jail.
I had to upgrade the fuses in the building, because i figured they weren't strong enough.
*facepalm*
You have been trolled by IT. Little known job #32766, trolling, well...., everyone, without their knowledge.
I know _I_ won't buy a game if I know that cheating like this exists.
If that is the case, then you'll never be able to buy any sort of pvp game. Sad, but true.
The methodology to verify the data used in the paper was to perform their own scans of networks that were known to have hosts, and then compare the results to the published 2012 internet census data. They got a high match rate. I evaluated the data slightly differently. I scanned network segments that I know to be empty, unused, or entirely behind firewalls. In these cases (for segments /24 and larger) there are still records in the internet census data. These records are completely made up. Try going to the search engine and typing in a network you know to be completely empty as scanned from the outside. A network that has been allocated but never used would be best. It's a lot of fun, and shows the internet census data is partially falsified and likely to be of no scientific value. Don't avoid the data becuse it's immoral, just avoid it because it's incorrect.
Mod parent up. This is why people are protesting. Love it or hate it, this is also the free market at work.
Good point. "The movie" represents a short period of time where you might not be able to text, which is not a real hardship.
Not allowing texting during the previews would be cruel. That can be HOURS.
As someone that used to work with mobile security - this is tiny minority that got caught. If you carry your mobile phone with you, then you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. Treat your smartphone as a combination of public WiFi and a court-assigned GSP tracking ankle bracelet.
This. The entire business model of the internet has shifted to one of sharing geolocation, identity, and preference data that many people would consider private if given the opportunity to provide or withhold their informed consent. We do know that our phones are on the internet, right?
...74.3% of slashdot editors will post sensational BS in an attempt to get a rise out of sysadmins. It works 94% of the time.
I seem to have stopped the bleeding for the moment. At some point in the upgrade path the memory footprint seems to have grown a bit. Time to upgrade the toaster that runs the website, obviously!
/. could warn me in advance so I know to have lunch delivered to my desk :)
--Your friendly playstation2-linux.com sysadmin.
P.S. I would appreciate it if in the future
The HDD is incompatible with games, however your PlayStation(r) 2 can still play games just fine. Just wanted to make sure people don't get the wrong idea. Also, it turns out that it is possible to boot your kit the first time on a TV, you just have to hold the appropriate keys down on your DualShock controller at boot time. Check out the faq.
I still recommend a monitor though. TVs aren't the greatest when it comes to reading text.
-Adam Bertsch
Sr. Systems Administrator
Sony Computer Entertainment America
Whoops. That'll teach me to head out to lunch with a /. story pending. Postgres usually survives a /.ing, but I guess today's readers were just particularly enthusiastic. It's back now, of course.
If by "big plane" you mean airliner, they have a far better glide ratio than a "small plane" if by small plane you mean cessna. Airliners have glide ratios in the neighborhood of 20:1. Their airframes are designed to be very, very efficient.
Cessna 172: 8.6 to 1
Cessna 182: 10 to 1
Mooney 231: 12 to 1
Boeing 727-200: 16.4 to 1
Douglas DC-9: 16.5 to 1
Boeing 767-200: 19 to 1
Albatross (the bird, not the plane): 20 to 1
Grob 102 Glide: 36 to 1
This isn't entirely accurate. It actually is illegal to fly an aircraft over a densely populated area a) Less than 1000 feet above the highest structure within 2000 feet laterally, b) In such a way that in the event of an emergency a landing can be made without endangering any persons or property on the surface. It doesn't matter what altitude you're at, if you aren't satisfying (b) then you're breaking the law.
In the case of these guys, they were obviously flying over interstate highways, which in a major population center can be your best option for an emergency landing... so I'd say they were doing a-ok.
Well, one of them is on http://codingstyle.com. The other is on http://playstation2-linux.com. Maybe you need the latest version of diff :)
What do you mean "except for the hack value"? The hack value here is extreme! However, that's not the only point. What you get with Linux (for Playstation 2) is system manuals for previously secret playstation 2 hardware components, and an interface to write code for them. Sony is releasing a lot of software and documentation that was previously only available to licensed developers. If you have an interest in developing console games/applications, the kit can really jumpstart your knowledge and experience.
I've put up a mirror on playstation2-linux.com. You may also want to check out the official site which is, of course, http://playstation2-linux.com
" Oh, another note to Sony: The keyboard with the 8' long cable is a GREAT idea. BUT NOT IF THE MOUSE ONLY HAS A 3' CABLE."
:-P
Of course there's a USB hub built in to the keyboard, with a port on the side of the keyboard designed specifically for the mouse. Who would have though?
Depending on what you measure the PS2 is either faster than any modern PC (FLOPS), or about as fast as a two-year-old intel box (desktop applications)... But it's defiantely a good box for graphics. The max resolution is 1280x1024 true color at 75 hz. Not bad for a box that is intended to work on a TV.
The code on the bootloader, which runs before the kernel gets loaded, is basically a NT-like hardware abstraction layer that prevents you from getting direct register-level access to the GS (graphics/sound coprocessor) chip
That's not entirely true. The GS is the Graphics Synthesizer, and has nothing to do with sound. It's completely accessable. The SPU, for sound, has an interface. You probably want to check out the faq.
Many of the questions posed in the forum are answered in the FAQ at http://playstation2-linux.com/faq.php. I'll try to answer other questions as time allows, but I'm at LWCE today. Stop by and say Hi if you like, I'll be in the Sony booth. I've made some performance tweaks to the website, let's see if we can avoid slashdotting for a little longer...
I would guess that Ebay can't afford to inspect each and every M$ software auction to verify an unopened retail box, or original M$ media. In the interest of not being buried under 100 tons of M$ lawsuit for failing to inspect one illegitamate auction, Ebay is deciding to end all auctions that M$ complains about. It's not fair, but it may be the only choice they have.
Ebay is a business. It's not financially sound for them to do anything besides what they are doing. Now is it right for M$ to put them in this position? Probably not. But somehow I don't see the government doing anything to stop them, and I don't see any private party with the required legal and financial backing to stop them.
We use the netscape messaging server here. This was a compromise between the exchange solution that some people wanted, with all of the coporate wightbehind it, and the sendmail/unix open source solution that other might prefer. So far we've had pretty good success with netscape messaging server using Netscape's enterprise LDAP server as a directory on the backend. There's a pretty gui to show the boss and a great Perl interface for LDAP for myself.
On our unix shell server users can connect to the messaging server via IMAP, and they can look each other up in the database as well from within pine. Obviously there's a nice interface to Netscape Communicator as well.
We also have a microsoft exchange mail server here. It's using a number of multiprocessor 300mhz PentiumII boxes, it cost us a fortune, and in my humble opinion doesn't provide the level of service we get from our messaging server.
If a simple sendmail/unix setup won't work for your managers or your environment, you might want to give this a try.