Re:Sorry, dd chopped mp3 files do not always work.
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Splitting Mp3's
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I get a lot of those but after studdering a bit at the begining of the chopped file but after a few seconds it plays smoothly.
I chopped an episode of the HHGttG a few weeks ago - I wanted to put the 'Share and Enjoy' song onto my MP3 player - and after locating the spot it started and for how long it played I dd'd it and presto - I passed it through mpg123 and it worked.
I guess it's just a matter of luck finding the correct spot to grab a header.
I know about the MP3 file header but before I knew about it I was chopping MP3s just for kicks. It works, it's easy and knowing the kbps of the file you can calculate the exact point to start and end. Example:
It REALLY does work and it's command line - not to mention all the piping possibilites.
Re:MS fears US will mandate "OSS only" like Brazil
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Microsoft and the GPL
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As a Brazilian (hence my username) and a government network admin I gotta tell you that the law ain't got a snowball's chance in hell to being approved - and yeah, it's not law yet.:(
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Re:Are these real scientists here?
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Tell me about it but it ain't the scientists. It's the damn reporter: 2 m/s is around 45 miles per hour and 1 cm is about a 0,4 inch. God, it's a wonder some people manage to be so dumb!
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An AC made a joke about this and got modded down but I thought it was funny and brings up an intresting anime/huxley-esque idea, making copies of girls/guys for 'recreational' purposes? Genetical engeneering in the future will allow fine manipulation of genes to enhance/reduce or enable/disable certain natural functions and adding natural immunity to viruses/bacterias thusly creating perfect sex toys.
I just need to make clear that this is a VERY disturbing idea for most people, fortunately I'm not one of them since I happen to think that this will happen one day (`a la' "6th Day"), want itor not - it will happen.
Well, there goes my karma but if we're playing God to make wheat and soy beans grow healthier why not play God to make enough Britneys to go around?:)
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I second that - but I use html-trap.procmail. It's fast enough for my uses (300 to 400 emails a day) and is easy enough for me to understand and customize.
It's main features are:
Trapping (dumping) emails based on attachment type (great to get rid of those pesky vbs worms).
Mangleing (sp?) of filenames so that no files are run automagicly by Outlook/Scripting Engine. Users are forced to save the file and rename the file (gives the antivirus software a fighting chance to kill the menace, if any).
Dumping files based on the amount of Macros in a DOC or XLS (if you don't dump or mangle them).
Kills webbugs and mangles HTML messages.
Great reporting mechanism - at least I think it's great.
I know it doesn't do what the author suggested but even without subject recongnition it killed the 3 NakedWife worms that tried to get into my network,
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That aint' funny - that's gotta be the most hilarious thing a MS employee has ever said, it even tops Bill Gate's (in)famous 640kb quote. Damn, I gotta write that down and use it as a signature!
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What about the ecosystem under 2 to 3 miles of ice, sounds kinda like 2010 and 2061 - imagine all the fantastic creatures just wobbling around down there. Truly an awsome thing to daydream about...:)
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The first one is about Slashdot while the second one is about you.
1. What was life like with Rob and Jeff in "real life" before Slashdot was aquired by Andover? I'm a Geeks in Space fan and it always sounded like you guys were the best of friends - especially the Kurt bashing part. Did you guys go to school together, how did you come into the picture?
2. Why are you so cool? Do you do special yoga exercises every morning to be so cool? Do you drink a special formula to be so damn cool?
Thanks and when's the next Geeks in Space?
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I know I'm being redundant, this isn't his first reply...
To make the open source movement something the PHBs can understand you have to give them MS-like solutions. An Outlook Killer is a step in this direction. "Sir, why buy 2000 Outlooks (or whatevers) if there's this one for free that we can tailor to due as you, the almight Lord Boss, please?".
Face it, they need a comparison - you can't expect a non-techie to understand that Linux is superior to Windows ?? due to it's stability, you need to make them understand through ca$h ($$$$$$) or something else.
I say, GREAT job guys - keep it up!
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Uptime here isn't really critical but the server farm (or the Freezer as I call it due to the two heavy duty ACs) has to work properly so all during this week - now half over - I've been shutting down non-essencial tasks (mostly automated file and non-essencial program updates), distribuiting the email load over 2 servers (redundancy is always good) and creating redundancy in every system I can so that the basic services don't stop.
Since this vacation has been planned for a month now I've had plenty of time to stress test my Freezer and determine the weakest links and resolved those issues. I'm nearly all packed, I've just gotta resolve some email issues and redirect my two main alias accounts to the rest of the tech staff.
I guess it really helps to have a few weeks of advanced notice to work things out - if you're in a rush, my sugestion would be to stay close, don't travel to far or - better yet - don't go anywhere that doesn't have internet connectivity and don't forget to pack a SSH client on a disk or CD (for Windows 'cause it's EVERYWHERE).
Another thing, leave a copy of the main passwords with someone, you never know when they'll need it.
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Does anyone know if this legislation covers email redirection? If so, does anyone know of a good norweigan.no redirection service that doesn't add any special header or footer to the messages?
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And I say that at the risk of being redundant - not only did he survive a few months without even looking a linux terminal, only Windows and Mac OS but he still remembered how to work vi! Weaker men would have buckled under similar circumstances and used notepad (or Mac OS' equivalent)!
But seriously, you gotta admire someone like Jason, not only did he pull through but he managed to keep his spirits up during the whole time and laugh (at least in ASCII) about it.
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I gotta warn you that I'm not going to be too helpful...
A few months ago I bought an old stereo headphone with mic on sale at a discount bin in a local electronics store. The brand/model/whatever is "Elveco" (that's it), it's a full ear model, works very nicely and has a tested 50 m radius (including walls and a few other computers nearby) from the antena. The mic is sensitive for my needs and very flexible although I leave it off most of the time. The mic picks up great for 25 m and after that it just drops off. The base runs off a little AC/DC converter (or 2 AAA batteries) and the receiver runs off 2 AAA batteries.
I bought it for R$ 80 (80 brazilian reais ~= US$ 40). I wish there was more information on how to find one I could give you. There's a little sticker on the antena base and the headset (which isn't heavy BTW, just the right weight to not bother me) that's writen in "Radiocom Privees France Professionnal" and is dated from 07/1997 (so it's a bit old also).
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According to the record holder (and a few others) there are only 255 rooms in the game but I gotta tell ya', mapping 255 rooms in a came as confusing (to me at least) has got to be one hell of a task.
Congratulations to Alan Hewston for the record. Classic gaming records are truly remarkable, the games were limited (due to the machines they used to run on) and AI was terrible but these games just live on and will probably out live some of the modern 3D games (such as tombraider)...:)
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I use ArcServer on an NT 'cause I need a backup tracking system that's easy to configure (ok, Arcserver's not easy but after hacking at it for a while I managed to understand it) and Arcserver's doing a great job for my needs. It deals out about 11Gbs of backup daily on a DDS-2 Seagate and I haven't had any bad experiences with it yet.
What I want to know is - remember that TINAF (This is not a flame) post - what's so wrong about Arcserver?
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Everyone's b*tchin' about ICANN but not many people are really doing anything about it - but in the Register article there's a link to The SuperRoot Consortium that has a proposal and is actually doing something about the TLD problems.
I know that I'm switching over, if everybody starts using their rootservers ICANN will loose it's power and all of us will be happier. Think about it, ICANN depends on their rootservers to stay in power, use other rootservers and ICANN can't touch you.
Like I said, I'm switching...
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I answered a post on bandwidth accounting a month ago (Oct. 02 2000) and it's already in the archives... But here's a link: see the first post.
It's a nice program and can be easily configured to your needs, since it listens on an interface you could easily set it to collect data on the masquerading side ande generate a few reports. Nothing that a few lines of perl won't generate. Here's a link to ipaudit on Freshmeat.
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Damn, I went over to Overclockerz willing to dish out a few bucks on a cool keychain and I can't find them. Can someone post a link to the keychains please?
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I have a comment on why not making it a holiday (as it was around here).
First of all - when you aren't obligated to vote (as brazilians are) - people that don't care will just stay home - as a matter of fact, most people will just stay home, the voter turnout will be much lower than the already are (think about it, would you go out in the cold to vote for something that won't affect you). Second, not giving a holiday is good to keep vote herders to a minimum, I know it's legal but doesn't everybody hate to be harassed by some smuck (or smuckette) giving you stickers, pins and hats for their candidate?
I can't see the reason to make it a holiday, especially when it isn't a mandatory vote. Even for a mandatory vote, holidays are just an excuse to go travel and have a plausible cause to not vote.
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I get a lot of those but after studdering a bit at the begining of the chopped file but after a few seconds it plays smoothly.
I chopped an episode of the HHGttG a few weeks ago - I wanted to put the 'Share and Enjoy' song onto my MP3 player - and after locating the spot it started and for how long it played I dd'd it and presto - I passed it through mpg123 and it worked.
I guess it's just a matter of luck finding the correct spot to grab a header.
... using dd.
I know about the MP3 file header but before I knew about it I was chopping MP3s just for kicks. It works, it's easy and knowing the kbps of the file you can calculate the exact point to start and end. Example:
dd if=biggie_file.mp3 of=shortie_file.mp3 bs=1c seek=200k count=150k
It REALLY does work and it's command line - not to mention all the piping possibilites.
As a Brazilian (hence my username) and a government network admin I gotta tell you that the law ain't got a snowball's chance in hell to being approved - and yeah, it's not law yet. :(
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Tell me about it but it ain't the scientists. It's the damn reporter: 2 m/s is around 45 miles per hour and 1 cm is about a 0,4 inch. God, it's a wonder some people manage to be so dumb!
--
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An AC made a joke about this and got modded down but I thought it was funny and brings up an intresting anime/huxley-esque idea, making copies of girls/guys for 'recreational' purposes? Genetical engeneering in the future will allow fine manipulation of genes to enhance/reduce or enable/disable certain natural functions and adding natural immunity to viruses/bacterias thusly creating perfect sex toys.
:)
I just need to make clear that this is a VERY disturbing idea for most people, fortunately I'm not one of them since I happen to think that this will happen one day (`a la' "6th Day"), want itor not - it will happen.
Well, there goes my karma but if we're playing God to make wheat and soy beans grow healthier why not play God to make enough Britneys to go around?
--
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It's main features are:
- Trapping (dumping) emails based on attachment type (great to get rid of those pesky vbs worms).
- Mangleing (sp?) of filenames so that no files are run automagicly by Outlook/Scripting Engine. Users are forced to save the file and rename the file (gives the antivirus software a fighting chance to kill the menace, if any).
- Dumping files based on the amount of Macros in a DOC or XLS (if you don't dump or mangle them).
- Kills webbugs and mangles HTML messages.
- Great reporting mechanism - at least I think it's great.
I know it doesn't do what the author suggested but even without subject recongnition it killed the 3 NakedWife worms that tried to get into my network,--
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Hey, it gotta come down someday... Why not on my birthday...
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That aint' funny - that's gotta be the most hilarious thing a MS employee has ever said, it even tops Bill Gate's (in)famous 640kb quote. Damn, I gotta write that down and use it as a signature!
--
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What about the ecosystem under 2 to 3 miles of ice, sounds kinda like 2010 and 2061 - imagine all the fantastic creatures just wobbling around down there. Truly an awsome thing to daydream about... :)
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The first one is about Slashdot while the second one is about you.
1. What was life like with Rob and Jeff in "real life" before Slashdot was aquired by Andover? I'm a Geeks in Space fan and it always sounded like you guys were the best of friends - especially the Kurt bashing part. Did you guys go to school together, how did you come into the picture?
2. Why are you so cool? Do you do special yoga exercises every morning to be so cool? Do you drink a special formula to be so damn cool?
Thanks and when's the next Geeks in Space?
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I know I'm being redundant, this isn't his first reply...
To make the open source movement something the PHBs can understand you have to give them MS-like solutions. An Outlook Killer is a step in this direction. "Sir, why buy 2000 Outlooks (or whatevers) if there's this one for free that we can tailor to due as you, the almight Lord Boss, please?".
Face it, they need a comparison - you can't expect a non-techie to understand that Linux is superior to Windows ?? due to it's stability, you need to make them understand through ca$h ($$$$$$) or something else.
I say, GREAT job guys - keep it up!
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And I'm going on vacation starting next monday...
Uptime here isn't really critical but the server farm (or the Freezer as I call it due to the two heavy duty ACs) has to work properly so all during this week - now half over - I've been shutting down non-essencial tasks (mostly automated file and non-essencial program updates), distribuiting the email load over 2 servers (redundancy is always good) and creating redundancy in every system I can so that the basic services don't stop.
Since this vacation has been planned for a month now I've had plenty of time to stress test my Freezer and determine the weakest links and resolved those issues. I'm nearly all packed, I've just gotta resolve some email issues and redirect my two main alias accounts to the rest of the tech staff.
I guess it really helps to have a few weeks of advanced notice to work things out - if you're in a rush, my sugestion would be to stay close, don't travel to far or - better yet - don't go anywhere that doesn't have internet connectivity and don't forget to pack a SSH client on a disk or CD (for Windows 'cause it's EVERYWHERE).
Another thing, leave a copy of the main passwords with someone, you never know when they'll need it.
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Warning: I don't speak/read/understand norweigan.
.no redirection service that doesn't add any special header or footer to the messages?
Does anyone know if this legislation covers email redirection? If so, does anyone know of a good norweigan
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And I say that at the risk of being redundant - not only did he survive a few months without even looking a linux terminal, only Windows and Mac OS but he still remembered how to work vi! Weaker men would have buckled under similar circumstances and used notepad (or Mac OS' equivalent)!
But seriously, you gotta admire someone like Jason, not only did he pull through but he managed to keep his spirits up during the whole time and laugh (at least in ASCII) about it.
--
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I gotta warn you that I'm not going to be too helpful...
A few months ago I bought an old stereo headphone with mic on sale at a discount bin in a local electronics store. The brand/model/whatever is "Elveco" (that's it), it's a full ear model, works very nicely and has a tested 50 m radius (including walls and a few other computers nearby) from the antena. The mic is sensitive for my needs and very flexible although I leave it off most of the time. The mic picks up great for 25 m and after that it just drops off. The base runs off a little AC/DC converter (or 2 AAA batteries) and the receiver runs off 2 AAA batteries.
I bought it for R$ 80 (80 brazilian reais ~= US$ 40). I wish there was more information on how to find one I could give you. There's a little sticker on the antena base and the headset (which isn't heavy BTW, just the right weight to not bother me) that's writen in "Radiocom Privees France Professionnal" and is dated from 07/1997 (so it's a bit old also).
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Are you now or have you ever been a Slashdot troll? If so, please comment on the feeling of being a troll, if not, what is your favorite troll?
Thank you.
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According to the record holder (and a few others) there are only 255 rooms in the game but I gotta tell ya', mapping 255 rooms in a came as confusing (to me at least) has got to be one hell of a task.
:)
Congratulations to Alan Hewston for the record. Classic gaming records are truly remarkable, the games were limited (due to the machines they used to run on) and AI was terrible but these games just live on and will probably out live some of the modern 3D games (such as tombraider)...
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AFAIK the other one was Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD) - cool game, really fun to play (and get waxed every day by some BBS door Troll)... :)
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Poor guy - he makes a cool new (old?) game and posts it to Slashdot...
Now it's dead... Beware of the slashdot effect, more servers die to it than from faulty hardware.
Seriously, it's nostalgic but I sucked at Tradewars and I'll probably suck at this one too...
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I use ArcServer on an NT 'cause I need a backup tracking system that's easy to configure (ok, Arcserver's not easy but after hacking at it for a while I managed to understand it) and Arcserver's doing a great job for my needs. It deals out about 11Gbs of backup daily on a DDS-2 Seagate and I haven't had any bad experiences with it yet.
What I want to know is - remember that TINAF (This is not a flame) post - what's so wrong about Arcserver?
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Everyone's b*tchin' about ICANN but not many people are really doing anything about it - but in the Register article there's a link to The SuperRoot Consortium that has a proposal and is actually doing something about the TLD problems.
I know that I'm switching over, if everybody starts using their rootservers ICANN will loose it's power and all of us will be happier. Think about it, ICANN depends on their rootservers to stay in power, use other rootservers and ICANN can't touch you.
Like I said, I'm switching...
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It's typed right but the URL is wrong, it's:
Antarti.ca as in http://antarcti.ca.
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I answered a post on bandwidth accounting a month ago (Oct. 02 2000) and it's already in the archives... But here's a link: see the first post.
It's a nice program and can be easily configured to your needs, since it listens on an interface you could easily set it to collect data on the masquerading side ande generate a few reports. Nothing that a few lines of perl won't generate. Here's a link to ipaudit on Freshmeat.
--
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Damn, I went over to Overclockerz willing to dish out a few bucks on a cool keychain and I can't find them. Can someone post a link to the keychains please?
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I have a comment on why not making it a holiday (as it was around here).
First of all - when you aren't obligated to vote (as brazilians are) - people that don't care will just stay home - as a matter of fact, most people will just stay home, the voter turnout will be much lower than the already are (think about it, would you go out in the cold to vote for something that won't affect you). Second, not giving a holiday is good to keep vote herders to a minimum, I know it's legal but doesn't everybody hate to be harassed by some smuck (or smuckette) giving you stickers, pins and hats for their candidate?
I can't see the reason to make it a holiday, especially when it isn't a mandatory vote. Even for a mandatory vote, holidays are just an excuse to go travel and have a plausible cause to not vote.
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