I just updated my 5GB to 1.2.6 and the only strange thing that I noticed was that the clock was frozen at 12:00:00 1Jan 2002. If you manually adjust the date and time it starts running normally. I haven't found a way to turn it off again, short of running an iPod restore.
Could this be a power-saving feature? Disabling the clock until the user actually decides to start using it? (I know I never do, so it wouldn't be a big loss and the extra run time would be great)
This old interview at ArsTechnica talks with three of the sysadmins that help maintain the computers for South Park production staff.
On page three they actually start talking in detail about the hardware and software involved and the difficulty in using CGI to imitate what are basically paper cut-outs.
I just purchased a iPod to replace my Minidisc player. Xplay works pretty well and allows me to manage the music files from a Windows box.
The Minidisc's big advantage is the small size of the players (man, those things are TINY!) and relatively high storage capacity (2.5 hours of pretty good quality with MDLP capable models). However, you're still stuck with recording music in real-time and that was becoming a bit of a pain because I change playlists pretty often.
The 5GB iPod stores somewhere between 40 and 80 hours of music and although you can't create new playllists on the fly (you must create the playlist on your PC/Mac instead) music uploading/downloading is far faster than the Minidisc and it has a great user interface. The battery life isn't too great (6 hours maybe?) but it charges whenever you plug it in and only takes an hour or so to get to full charge from 0%, so how bad can that be?
The XBox does support digital audio with an optical out port on the Advanced AV pack. The pack also has S-Video but is missing the alternative coax digital audio out.
Even though the PS2 has a digital audio out, at least as far as I have seen, most games still stick to stereo (or have limited 5.1 audio, like MGS2). All of the Xbox games that I've played so far have used 5.1 (or at least *output* 5.1 audio).
Corrections? Additions? Comments? Be polite now...
I thought that it was pretty easy to follow... as long as you concentrate. The sections in colour are going backwards in time, the sections in black & white are going forwards. They then meet [chronologically] at the end of the film (which is actually half-way, time-wise, through the series of events depicted by the movie).
OK, yeah, it is a bit confusing, but a pretty good movie anyway.
I'm quite new to console gaming (my recent PS2 purchase is the first console that I've ever owned) and I'm having a great time playing old PS1 titles along with the new PS2 games (just remember to get a PS1 memory card, because the old games can't use the new PS2 memory cards).
I'm currently playing through Final Fantasy IX and hope to have that finished by the time FF X comes out at the end of the year. Recent news about the Resident Evil movie has me thinking that I should give a few of those titles a try as well.
My local crack-dealer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H game store also has used Dreamcasts... perfect for some Crazy Taxi and Shenmue huh? I worry that this whole "console" thing is an addiction that grows. eeeeeeek.
Believe it or not I actually bought a PS2 to play ICO after initially renting it (and the PS2) from Blockbuster. The other PC and Playstation games that I had lying around (including FF9, Max Payne & Metal Gear Solid 2) just sat around, unplayed until I had finished ICO (twice!). What's even more amazing is that this is supposedly the first game by a internal Sony team...
Pros:
- the visuals and environmental sounds are simply stunning, you'll find yourself running around just taking it all in
- the puzzles aren't TOO hard, but contain enough variety to keep you interested
- did I mention how amazing the visuals were?
- game design that uses the absolute minimum amount of characters, music and speech to tell a completely engrossing story
Cons:
- the game is very short, maybe 9 hours for my first run through and definitely less than 4 hours from start to finish once you know what you're doing
- almost zero replayability, all of the puzzle locations and solutions are the same, every time through (although, I still feel that I got my money's worth)
The keyboard on the RIM/Blackberry mobile devices looks just as small and most people manage a reasonable typing speed with just a little bit of practice. I just worry that I'm developing the 21st century version of "Nintendo thumbs" from typing on the thing (grin).
Hmmmm, they also seem to be using the same thumbwheel device as the RIMs do. Maybe Research in Motion will buy them out and start making these things... stick a corded or Bluetooth headset/mic combination on it for cell-phone functionality and finally I'll only have ONE device to carry around.
I believe that Farscape only just started showing on the Space Channel here in Canada, while it's been aired on the Sci-Fi channel in the US for years. Of course, I may be wrong and it may have aired in Canada earlier while I wasn't paying attention.
Farscape is just one example, there are undoubtedly more.
I'm amazed that no one has even mentioned this name. Sure, his books are mostly military space-fiction but they're a good read IMHO. He's also working on a swords 'n sorcery series as well.
I don't know if we'll still be reading his books in 50 years but they're certainly a great way to pass time right now.
On another note, I just love Baen's free library concept... a collection of freely downloadable copies of top notch books by a small but growing list of their authors.
I've been playing with it for a few days and it looks quite good (almost fully-featured demo too!). It makes ATI's bundled software look embarrassingly inadequate.
I just finished reading a short story by James Cobb that featured armored fighting vehicles (remotely directed AI drones even!) with that type of weapon. He called it a "booster gun" and it had several injectors along the barrel that injected and ignited a liquid propellant as the round went by. The book is a compilation called "Combat", edited by Stephen Coonts (quite good IMHO).
Re:Mild spelling flame: it's TANSTAAFL (nt)
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I'm fairly sure it was Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". I have a copy around here somewhere, gotta read it again sometime.
My Sony DVP-S560D doesn't play MP3s (sigh) but it does handle VCDs and audio CDs burned onto CD-RWs just fine. I'm having a lot of fun downloading video clips from the Internet for viewing on my 32in TV (Metal Gear Solid 2 trailer anyone?).
Evidently you can configure IIS to do reverse DNS lookups (which are disabled, by default) but it adds a special Microsoft-flavoured twist. If the standard reverse lookup fails, it tries to retrieve a name from the remote client using NetBIOS.
Could this be the source of your UDP requests? You can try connecting to the servers in question from a machine with working Reverse DNS entries to see if it still happens (according to the article, it should not).
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By default, performing a Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_HOST") in ASP returns a null value, which causes Internet Information Server (IIS) to return the value of REMOTE_ADDR, the IP address of the client. This is by design to increase performance for Web hosting. However, by changing a setting in the metabase, IIS performs a reverse DNS lookup and returns the host name of the client connecting.
With the metabase setting enabled, every request for the REMOTE_HOST server variable causes IIS to pass a name resolution request off to the operating system, which attempts to execute a reverse DNS lookup. If the reverse DNS lookup fails to return the host name, the operating system then attempts name resolution using NetBIOS. If NetBIOS resolution fails an empty value is returned to IIS, which returns the REMOTE_ADDR value (client's IP address) to the original REMOTE_HOST request.
The new IBM POWER4 chip (a great article on the chip is here) looks really great but given the trouble that other manufacturers have had with complex chip designs I have to wonder.
- How well will it scale to high clock speeds?
- How are chip yields going to be affected by the super-complex chip design (and of course, low chip yields = high price)
Still looks good though, too bad it'll be about 50 years before I can afford to have one on my desktop.
Didn't like it the first time? Read it again!
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The first time I read "The Shockwave Rider" I wasn't that impressed. The book jumps around a bit and I found myself skipping back a few pages to re-read sections again. I found it a good read but still a bit... disconnected.
Then I read it again a short while later and... WOW. The first reading gave me a good overview, the second let all the disconnected parts fall into place and I knew I had a great book. Sadly, my copy is rather banged up, so I guess I'll be looking for a new edition like so many other people.
So, if you were a bit disappointed with it the first time through, give it another chance. I'm sure you'll be impressed.
Exactly, I was thinking the same thing. A reasonable fine would be a small multiple of the amount of money that MP3.com earned through advertising. $118 million (or whatever the figure was) is insane! Where is MP3.com going to get the money to pay for this anyway??
On another note... I wonder if the artists whose CDs were allegedly "ripped off" will see a single cent of this money? Nope, didn't think so.
Reboot and the various (I think there are two or three) Beast Wars series are just great! Although I haven't been able to sit down and watch them in any organised fashion they still stand way above most of the other animation (and normal TV) programming that's out there.
Shadow Raiders? hmmmm, I dunno, but I just saw an episode of Action Man (another Mainframe production) that looks interesting.
And for anyone that lives in Toronto, don't forget the National Science Fiction and Anime Expos that are later in August!
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Could this be a power-saving feature? Disabling the clock until the user actually decides to start using it? (I know I never do, so it wouldn't be a big loss and the extra run time would be great)
On page three they actually start talking in detail about the hardware and software involved and the difficulty in using CGI to imitate what are basically paper cut-outs.
I just purchased a iPod to replace my Minidisc player. Xplay works pretty well and allows me to manage the music files from a Windows box.
The Minidisc's big advantage is the small size of the players (man, those things are TINY!) and relatively high storage capacity (2.5 hours of pretty good quality with MDLP capable models). However, you're still stuck with recording music in real-time and that was becoming a bit of a pain because I change playlists pretty often.
The 5GB iPod stores somewhere between 40 and 80 hours of music and although you can't create new playllists on the fly (you must create the playlist on your PC/Mac instead) music uploading/downloading is far faster than the Minidisc and it has a great user interface. The battery life isn't too great (6 hours maybe?) but it charges whenever you plug it in and only takes an hour or so to get to full charge from 0%, so how bad can that be?
The XBox does support digital audio with an optical out port on the Advanced AV pack. The pack also has S-Video but is missing the alternative coax digital audio out.
Even though the PS2 has a digital audio out, at least as far as I have seen, most games still stick to stereo (or have limited 5.1 audio, like MGS2). All of the Xbox games that I've played so far have used 5.1 (or at least *output* 5.1 audio).
Corrections? Additions? Comments? Be polite now...
I thought that it was pretty easy to follow... as long as you concentrate. The sections in colour are going backwards in time, the sections in black & white are going forwards. They then meet [chronologically] at the end of the film (which is actually half-way, time-wise, through the series of events depicted by the movie).
OK, yeah, it is a bit confusing, but a pretty good movie anyway.
I'm currently playing through Final Fantasy IX and hope to have that finished by the time FF X comes out at the end of the year. Recent news about the Resident Evil movie has me thinking that I should give a few of those titles a try as well.
My local crack-dealer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H game store also has used Dreamcasts... perfect for some Crazy Taxi and Shenmue huh? I worry that this whole "console" thing is an addiction that grows. eeeeeeek.
Pros:
- the visuals and environmental sounds are simply stunning, you'll find yourself running around just taking it all in
- the puzzles aren't TOO hard, but contain enough variety to keep you interested
- did I mention how amazing the visuals were?
- game design that uses the absolute minimum amount of characters, music and speech to tell a completely engrossing story
Cons:
- the game is very short, maybe 9 hours for my first run through and definitely less than 4 hours from start to finish once you know what you're doing
- almost zero replayability, all of the puzzle locations and solutions are the same, every time through (although, I still feel that I got my money's worth)
Links to two different reviews:
- IGN
- Penny Arcade
More reviews from the amazing Google.
The keyboard on the RIM/Blackberry mobile devices looks just as small and most people manage a reasonable typing speed with just a little bit of practice. I just worry that I'm developing the 21st century version of "Nintendo thumbs" from typing on the thing (grin).
Hmmmm, they also seem to be using the same thumbwheel device as the RIMs do. Maybe Research in Motion will buy them out and start making these things... stick a corded or Bluetooth headset/mic combination on it for cell-phone functionality and finally I'll only have ONE device to carry around.
I believe that Farscape only just started showing on the Space Channel here in Canada, while it's been aired on the Sci-Fi channel in the US for years. Of course, I may be wrong and it may have aired in Canada earlier while I wasn't paying attention.
Farscape is just one example, there are undoubtedly more.
I don't know if we'll still be reading his books in 50 years but they're certainly a great way to pass time right now.
Here's a list: http://electronictiger.com/shorts/dw_hh.htm
On another note, I just love Baen's free library concept... a collection of freely downloadable copies of top notch books by a small but growing list of their authors.
Silver Tower by Dale Brown, not bad although his later books have started to go downhill.
Try Showshifter... http://www.showshifter.com
I've been playing with it for a few days and it looks quite good (almost fully-featured demo too!). It makes ATI's bundled software look embarrassingly inadequate.
I just finished reading a short story by James Cobb that featured armored fighting vehicles (remotely directed AI drones even!) with that type of weapon. He called it a "booster gun" and it had several injectors along the barrel that injected and ignited a liquid propellant as the round went by. The book is a compilation called "Combat", edited by Stephen Coonts (quite good IMHO).
I'm fairly sure it was Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". I have a copy around here somewhere, gotta read it again sometime.
My Sony DVP-S560D doesn't play MP3s (sigh) but it does handle VCDs and audio CDs burned onto CD-RWs just fine. I'm having a lot of fun downloading video clips from the Internet for viewing on my 32in TV (Metal Gear Solid 2 trailer anyone?).
Evidently you can configure IIS to do reverse DNS lookups (which are disabled, by default) but it adds a special Microsoft-flavoured twist. If the standard reverse lookup fails, it tries to retrieve a name from the remote client using NetBIOS.
Could this be the source of your UDP requests? You can try connecting to the servers in question from a machine with working Reverse DNS entries to see if it still happens (according to the article, it should not).
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By default, performing a Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_HOST") in ASP returns a null value, which causes Internet Information Server (IIS) to return the value of REMOTE_ADDR, the IP address of the client. This is by design to increase performance for Web hosting. However, by changing a setting in the metabase, IIS performs a reverse DNS lookup and returns the host name of the client connecting.
With the metabase setting enabled, every request for the REMOTE_HOST server variable causes IIS to pass a name resolution request off to the operating system, which attempts to execute a reverse DNS lookup. If the reverse DNS lookup fails to return the host name, the operating system then attempts name resolution using NetBIOS. If NetBIOS resolution fails an empty value is returned to IIS, which returns the REMOTE_ADDR value (client's IP address) to the original REMOTE_HOST request.
In case you want to skip the forum messages (or it get's /.ed) here is story on http://linuxcare.com.au/tridge/tiv o-e thernet/
As far as I know you can change that already (with a registry value). Locating the instructions for this is left as an exercise for the reader.
- How well will it scale to high clock speeds?
- How are chip yields going to be affected by the super-complex chip design (and of course, low chip yields = high price)
Still looks good though, too bad it'll be about 50 years before I can afford to have one on my desktop.
Then I read it again a short while later and... WOW. The first reading gave me a good overview, the second let all the disconnected parts fall into place and I knew I had a great book. Sadly, my copy is rather banged up, so I guess I'll be looking for a new edition like so many other people.
So, if you were a bit disappointed with it the first time through, give it another chance. I'm sure you'll be impressed.
Link one: http://www.kanga.nu/arch ives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00164.php
Link two: http://www.samurai.com/list s/bryans-list-1998/0398.html
I haven't tried it because I'm stuck on a windows box without a decent nslookup but it looks simple enough.
Exactly, I was thinking the same thing. A reasonable fine would be a small multiple of the amount of money that MP3.com earned through advertising. $118 million (or whatever the figure was) is insane! Where is MP3.com going to get the money to pay for this anyway??
On another note... I wonder if the artists whose CDs were allegedly "ripped off" will see a single cent of this money? Nope, didn't think so.
Shadow Raiders? hmmmm, I dunno, but I just saw an episode of Action Man (another Mainframe production) that looks interesting.
And for anyone that lives in Toronto, don't forget the National Science Fiction and Anime Expos that are later in August!
In case anyone doesn't know, you can download it here
Awww yeah (grin).
I'm waiting for my Via chipset-based Abit VT6X4 to arrive so I can try running my P3-700 at 1050Mhz.
Halt and Catch Fire sounds about appropriate, luckily I have a P3-450 as backup.