it would be cool to have a lot of cheap quick referendums, hopefully it would also increase the terrible voter turnout the US has. I doubt this would happen of course, because it would remove some power from the US politicians / legislature.
I've been using the shareware version of NetTransport, which seems to work quite nicely
You can also dump the stream with mplayer, which is GPL. The windows port works fine for this although you have to use it from the commandline.
the command is something like: mplayer -dumpstream -playlist http://domain/address/to/ram/file.ram
If you actually have the address of the.rm stream and not the ram container then you can skip the -playlist option. Should produce a file called stream.dump rename it and play it like a normal.rm.
You can also dump the stream with mplayer, which is GPL. The windows port works fine for this although you have to use it from the commandline.
the command is something like: mplayer -dumpstream -playlist http://domain/address/to/ram/file.ram
If you actually have the address of the.rm stream and not the ram container then you can skip the -playlist option. Should produce a file called stream.dump rename it and play it like a normal.rm.
I haven't seen the WMP stream at the BBc only the rm, I expect the process is the same.
I'm sick of getting mail from "registrars" charging $40 and up for two year renewals and so forth
Hi, if you're interested I've been using godaddy for about 2 years now. The seem fine and are quite cheap (about $8 per year). Although I've only used them for registration and not DNS or hosting.
I gotta say, I'm not particularly impressed by these. I went to the mandrake store and it was 590 euros which seems pretty expensive for what it is. I've been looking at building a mini-itx system for my girlfriend for a while now (actually I'm waiting for the nano-itx) and I think much better value for money can be found using the EPIA stuff rather than the geode.
On the other hand it would be a cool thing to have in a company, but as an individual I wouldn't even consider it (for half that price mabye).
I have a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT (celeron 300), which has been on and runnig for the last 8 months solid. However I moved away from the hard drive a few months ago and I now use knoppix on it. YMMV
That's because most of us, having been conned into installing it in the past, are not willing to give Real a second chance. Period.
There are only three ways I would willingly install Realplayer, 1) if the entire thing (codecs and all) went opensource under an approved license. 2) the company is liquidated and parts purchsed and incorporated into the products of a company I do trust. 3) Real repay me for all the time I have lost removing and adjusting their products on my PC, and that of my friends and family.
Just a quick word of advice. I use real alternative and it does work pretty well, however it doesn't (at least in my case, and that of my friends) integrate well with FireFox i.e. it causes my firefox to crash, or stall. YMMV.
Hi, I use loop-aes under windows for my email on removeable storage. It's not straightforward, but possible. Instead of partitioning the device into two partitions, just use one and store a file on the other partition. The file itself is a loopback filesystem (which you can encrypt if you like). Now you still can't use this under windows, so I have a colinux installation which can mount the filesystem.
IIRC the colinux installation (including a basic debian image) is around 15MB, which could also fit on the removeable drive, although I just have it installed on my harddrive. In my case the colinux only exists to run an IMAP server which I can connect to from windows, although it should be quite possible to transfer files on/off the encrypted filesystem using SCP to the colinux machine (or even installing samba). The benefit to me is that I have access to my email when I'm online or offline, under windows or linux. I often work in knoppix, which can of course natively mount the filesystem (I have precompiled binaries for the IMAP server in a tgz on the storage).
I'm sure given enough motivation someone could develop a small read-only boot image which could sit on the drive, however you would still have to install colinux on the PC you wanted to run this on.
Ideally, they should not be storing the password on the disk itself at all for it to be a secure drive. But I've seen a lot of these decisions that seem boneheaded because a *lot* of people will forget their passwords and come back *demanding* that you decrypt their shit. If this is someone that even remotely knows the CEO of the company or somebody higher up and if you try to explain them one-way math functions, you will be getting the pink slip in no time.
Then the password should be installed using a public/private key system. The company distributes the pubkey with the app, this is used to encrypt the password. They keep the private key themselves, if you want to recover your password then you have to send the drive in with a processing fee. Simple.
Hi, the linux crypto filesystem uses this approach, you can use AES encryption, the keylength of which is based on you passphrase.
If you forget your passphrase, tough luck.
Not writing down your passwords is stupid, I don't know where you heard this. Your passwords *should* be written down, if only for the "hit by a bus scenario". What you don't do is leave them in an spreadsheet in My Documents, or on a post-it note attached to the monitor. Preferably they are in a safe which you and your boss/backup has access to, or at least in a locked drawer.
The point about the child sex example was to use a crime that very, VERY few people don't think of as wrong--in an attempt to view the problem not from a slashdotist fad point of view, but a logical legal one.
Bullshit, that was a shoddy analogy that existed only so you could make an ad hominem attack on the parent poster.
You do realize that to do business on line, you would still have to give them your pin, right?
[already posted this elsewhere in the thread, but thought you might be intersted in it]
Here in Germany there's a system called überweisung, basically it's nothing more than bank transfer, except that people use it religiously. If you want to make an online purchase usually you will be given a reciept with an order number, you then make a bank transfer to the business's account using this order number. The business doesn't need to know any of you account details at all.
Now there's nothing special about this system, we had a similar system in New Zealand. The main difference is social, most people prefer to use it instead of credit cards. Banks also have machines for making the transfer, usually sitting next to ATM machines so you don't need a PC to use it (of course you can do it manually at a teller as well). It's also useful for person to person transactions instead of just person to business.
As examples, I've used this several times this month: to pay for ebay items, to order a CD from www.buch.de, to pay my rent to the landlord, cellphone bill, food money to my girlfriend, and paying car rental to a collegue.
During the checkout phase, you get a code. You log on to your bank/credit card/whatever account, paste that code into a field to authorize the funds, and get an order confirmation from the place where you bought your stuff.
Here in Germany there's a system called überweisung, basically it's nothing more than bank transfer, except that people use it religiously. If you want to make an online purchase usually you will be given a reciept with an order number, you then make a bank transfer to the business's account using this order number. The business doesn't need to know any of you account details at all.
Now there's nothing special about this system, we had a similar system in New Zealand. The main difference is social, most people prefer to use it instead of credit cards. Banks also have machines for making the transfer, usually sitting next to ATM machines so you don't need a PC to use it (of course you can do it manually at a teller as well). It's also useful for person to person transactions instead of just person to business.
As examples, I've used this several times this month: to pay for ebay items, to order a CD from www.buch.de, to pay my rent to the landlord, cellphone bill, food money to my girlfriend, and paying car rental to a collegue.
I don't think you got trolled, I think you made good points and the parent genuinely doesn't understand the problems. BTW, in case you didn't realise, you are replying to a user who purchased their ID on ebay.
Oh, come off it. The handful of ounces a battery weighs pales in comparison to most of the other accouterments a mobile fellow or gals carries around.
Well batteries for laptops suck, firstly you can't change them without powering down, secondly they are heavy, thirdly they are expensive.
I have used a lot of laptops in my life, I have 3 that I use right now + one at work. I have a lot of experience with them, and battery power is my biggest complaint. Until we have batteries that really last 20, 40 or 100 hours I won't truly consider the laptop fully portable.
Personally, I rarely put SQL commands in my code. I leave it all in the procedures on the server.
...and how do you access those commands?
Well, using a business delegate would be the standard way.
There's also a world of difference between calling a procedure and running a query (at least on Oracle) mabye you should look into that.
What I did was create a language that allows you to express a query in pretty much plain SQL, define formal inputs and outputs (with types) and generates a class to interface that particular query.
Sounds like you just reinvented the wheeel again:) I'd be very surprised if your "language" truly extended beyond your own problem domain, or translated well to other databases. You would probably have been beter off using an existing API and using an abstraction layer between it and your business code. well actually you might have been better of using SPs...
Not sure if you are trolling, karma-whoring or just plain ignorant. However for the sake of anyone that actually reads you post lets correct some things.
1) Stored procedures are not written in an object oriented language and are almost always not written in an object oriented way.
Tables are objects and they are treated like objects in stored procedures so this is wrong. You can also write SPs in Java (on oracle).
2) Stored procedures are not checked into a version control engine.
WTF does that mean? Of course it is, you do know you can export it and save it right? In most environments there's a "file" menu with a "export" option, sorry if that's too hard for you.
3) There is no sane way to organize them beyond manimg tricks. No breaking up your stuff using directories for example.
erm, "packages"!
4) No global compilation. No way to check ahead of time whether you just broke another SP by passing a string instead of a number in as a parameter. You won't know that till it runs. Hmm, how about you compile it and take a look in your IDE. You can do this in your own schema as well so it won't affect others. Or were you thinking all SP developers use vi and sqlplus on a single production schema? PLSQL Developer for example has a button for compiling dependent objects.
5) No unit testing frameworks.
Well there's JUnit for Java SPs, but I guess your ignorant of that. There are many unit testing frameworks for PLSQL.
6) No cohesive way to examine code flow. What you end up with is a mountain of code snippets scattered all across your database. Cross your fingers and hope each step gets excuted properly.
Now your just talking utter crap, in most editors you can click on a function call and open the SP that's called.
7) No real debugger. No stepping through the code, no breakpoints, no watches.
Of course there is a debugger, of course you can step through the code, of course you can set breakpoints, utter lies.
8) Most commercial databases charge you per CPU. This means your CPU cycles are best used to keep data integrity, process queries and return recordsets. Most middle tiers are not licensed on a per CPU basis so you can afford to throw a lot of CPU cycles into executing code.
What an ignorant viewpoint. The bottleneck of database engines is disk speed not CPU. What, are you doing FFTs in the stored procedures or something?
9) Last but not least you can couple your middle tier using a high speed interlink so there is no real need to use SPs.
What an excellent example of "Fallacy of Exclusion". This statement would only be true if speed was the only reason to use SPs, however this is not the case so your statement is void.
You have so much wrong here I can hardly believe you are serious! Do yourself a favour and learn a bit about a subject before posting.
Hell yes that helps. I'm a pretty big fan of B5 myself (it's the ONLY scifi show on tv that I've ever thought was any good at all), and I hadn't thought much about the books. I needed some new books to read, looks like I found them:)
Glad I could help:)
I wouldn't go as far as saying it was the only show that was any good. I enjoyed Stargate also and am slowly collecting the DVD sets. If you really are as you claim a pretty big fan of B5, then I feel it's my duty as another pretty big fan to let you know there's a new movie coming. TMoS (The Memory of Shadows IIRC) it's not in production yet but apparantly approved. You can read JMS's posts at JMSNEWS
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it would be cool to have a lot of cheap quick referendums, hopefully it would also increase the terrible voter turnout the US has. I doubt this would happen of course, because it would remove some power from the US politicians / legislature.
I've been using the shareware version of NetTransport, which seems to work quite nicely
.rm stream and not the ram container then you can skip the -playlist option. Should produce a file called stream.dump rename it and play it like a normal .rm.
You can also dump the stream with mplayer, which is GPL. The windows port works fine for this although you have to use it from the commandline.
the command is something like:
mplayer -dumpstream -playlist http://domain/address/to/ram/file.ram
If you actually have the address of the
how can I rip this to HD?
.rm stream and not the ram container then you can skip the -playlist option. Should produce a file called stream.dump rename it and play it like a normal .rm.
You can also dump the stream with mplayer, which is GPL. The windows port works fine for this although you have to use it from the commandline.
the command is something like:
mplayer -dumpstream -playlist http://domain/address/to/ram/file.ram
If you actually have the address of the
I haven't seen the WMP stream at the BBc only the rm, I expect the process is the same.
why is this 'Interesting' anyway?!?!
Because he showed he provided real contact info without revealing his address. Retard.
I'm sick of getting mail from "registrars" charging $40 and up for two year renewals and so forth
Hi, if you're interested I've been using godaddy for about 2 years now. The seem fine and are quite cheap (about $8 per year). Although I've only used them for registration and not DNS or hosting.
I gotta say, I'm not particularly impressed by these. I went to the mandrake store and it was 590 euros which seems pretty expensive for what it is. I've been looking at building a mini-itx system for my girlfriend for a while now (actually I'm waiting for the nano-itx) and I think much better value for money can be found using the EPIA stuff rather than the geode.
On the other hand it would be a cool thing to have in a company, but as an individual I wouldn't even consider it (for half that price mabye).
I have a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT (celeron 300), which has been on and runnig for the last 8 months solid. However I moved away from the hard drive a few months ago and I now use knoppix on it. YMMV
That's because most of us, having been conned into installing it in the past, are not willing to give Real a second chance. Period.
There are only three ways I would willingly install Realplayer, 1) if the entire thing (codecs and all) went opensource under an approved license. 2) the company is liquidated and parts purchsed and incorporated into the products of a company I do trust. 3) Real repay me for all the time I have lost removing and adjusting their products on my PC, and that of my friends and family.
unfair to judge them based on what their software did 5 years ago
Mabye, but it's perfectly fair to judge them on the their ethics and customer respect they have shown in the past.
Just a quick word of advice. I use real alternative and it does work pretty well, however it doesn't (at least in my case, and that of my friends) integrate well with FireFox i.e. it causes my firefox to crash, or stall. YMMV.
erm, we have these 3 sparkling new mod points for you
Assuming you use Linux or BSD and not Windows.
Hi, I use loop-aes under windows for my email on removeable storage. It's not straightforward, but possible. Instead of partitioning the device into two partitions, just use one and store a file on the other partition. The file itself is a loopback filesystem (which you can encrypt if you like). Now you still can't use this under windows, so I have a colinux installation which can mount the filesystem.
IIRC the colinux installation (including a basic debian image) is around 15MB, which could also fit on the removeable drive, although I just have it installed on my harddrive. In my case the colinux only exists to run an IMAP server which I can connect to from windows, although it should be quite possible to transfer files on/off the encrypted filesystem using SCP to the colinux machine (or even installing samba). The benefit to me is that I have access to my email when I'm online or offline, under windows or linux. I often work in knoppix, which can of course natively mount the filesystem (I have precompiled binaries for the IMAP server in a tgz on the storage).
I'm sure given enough motivation someone could develop a small read-only boot image which could sit on the drive, however you would still have to install colinux on the PC you wanted to run this on.
Ideally, they should not be storing the password on the disk itself at all for it to be a secure drive. But I've seen a lot of these decisions that seem boneheaded because a *lot* of people will forget their passwords and come back *demanding* that you decrypt their shit. If this is someone that even remotely knows the CEO of the company or somebody higher up and if you try to explain them one-way math functions, you will be getting the pink slip in no time.
Then the password should be installed using a public/private key system. The company distributes the pubkey with the app, this is used to encrypt the password. They keep the private key themselves, if you want to recover your password then you have to send the drive in with a processing fee. Simple.
Hi, the linux crypto filesystem uses this approach, you can use AES encryption, the keylength of which is based on you passphrase.
If you forget your passphrase, tough luck.
Not writing down your passwords is stupid, I don't know where you heard this. Your passwords *should* be written down, if only for the "hit by a bus scenario". What you don't do is leave them in an spreadsheet in My Documents, or on a post-it note attached to the monitor. Preferably they are in a safe which you and your boss/backup has access to, or at least in a locked drawer.
This was explained well in Babylon 5 when JMS (the creator/writer) explains how fast the Starfuries go. They travel at "the speed of plot".
The point about the child sex example was to use a crime that very, VERY few people don't think of as wrong--in an attempt to view the problem not from a slashdotist fad point of view, but a logical legal one.
Bullshit, that was a shoddy analogy that existed only so you could make an ad hominem attack on the parent poster.
You do realize that to do business on line, you would still have to give them your pin, right?
[already posted this elsewhere in the thread, but thought you might be intersted in it]
Here in Germany there's a system called überweisung, basically it's nothing more than bank transfer, except that people use it religiously. If you want to make an online purchase usually you will be given a reciept with an order number, you then make a bank transfer to the business's account using this order number. The business doesn't need to know any of you account details at all.
Now there's nothing special about this system, we had a similar system in New Zealand. The main difference is social, most people prefer to use it instead of credit cards. Banks also have machines for making the transfer, usually sitting next to ATM machines so you don't need a PC to use it (of course you can do it manually at a teller as well). It's also useful for person to person transactions instead of just person to business.
As examples, I've used this several times this month: to pay for ebay items, to order a CD from www.buch.de, to pay my rent to the landlord, cellphone bill, food money to my girlfriend, and paying car rental to a collegue.
During the checkout phase, you get a code. You log on to your bank/credit card/whatever account, paste that code into a field to authorize the funds, and get an order confirmation from the place where you bought your stuff.
Here in Germany there's a system called überweisung, basically it's nothing more than bank transfer, except that people use it religiously. If you want to make an online purchase usually you will be given a reciept with an order number, you then make a bank transfer to the business's account using this order number. The business doesn't need to know any of you account details at all.
Now there's nothing special about this system, we had a similar system in New Zealand. The main difference is social, most people prefer to use it instead of credit cards. Banks also have machines for making the transfer, usually sitting next to ATM machines so you don't need a PC to use it (of course you can do it manually at a teller as well). It's also useful for person to person transactions instead of just person to business.
As examples, I've used this several times this month: to pay for ebay items, to order a CD from www.buch.de, to pay my rent to the landlord, cellphone bill, food money to my girlfriend, and paying car rental to a collegue.
I don't think you got trolled, I think you made good points and the parent genuinely doesn't understand the problems. BTW, in case you didn't realise, you are replying to a user who purchased their ID on ebay.
Parent should be marked informative not flamebait. I expect no Moore fan nor detractor would argue with it.
A 2-digit ID only got $115?
Shit - I'm going to have to reconsider my retirement plan now.
You could try timesharing it
Oh, come off it. The handful of ounces a battery weighs pales in comparison to most of the other accouterments a mobile fellow or gals carries around.
Well batteries for laptops suck, firstly you can't change them without powering down, secondly they are heavy, thirdly they are expensive.
I have used a lot of laptops in my life, I have 3 that I use right now + one at work. I have a lot of experience with them, and battery power is my biggest complaint. Until we have batteries that really last 20, 40 or 100 hours I won't truly consider the laptop fully portable.
Well, using a business delegate would be the standard way.
There's also a world of difference between calling a procedure and running a query (at least on Oracle) mabye you should look into that.
What I did was create a language that allows you to express a query in pretty much plain SQL, define formal inputs and outputs (with types) and generates a class to interface that particular query.
Sounds like you just reinvented the wheeel again
Not sure if you are trolling, karma-whoring or just plain ignorant. However for the sake of anyone that actually reads you post lets correct some things.
1) Stored procedures are not written in an object oriented language and are almost always not written in an object oriented way.
Tables are objects and they are treated like objects in stored procedures so this is wrong. You can also write SPs in Java (on oracle).
2) Stored procedures are not checked into a version control engine.
WTF does that mean? Of course it is, you do know you can export it and save it right? In most environments there's a "file" menu with a "export" option, sorry if that's too hard for you.
3) There is no sane way to organize them beyond manimg tricks. No breaking up your stuff using directories for example.
erm, "packages"!
4) No global compilation. No way to check ahead of time whether you just broke another SP by passing a string instead of a number in as a parameter. You won't know that till it runs.
Hmm, how about you compile it and take a look in your IDE. You can do this in your own schema as well so it won't affect others. Or were you thinking all SP developers use vi and sqlplus on a single production schema? PLSQL Developer for example has a button for compiling dependent objects.
5) No unit testing frameworks.
Well there's JUnit for Java SPs, but I guess your ignorant of that. There are many unit testing frameworks for PLSQL.
6) No cohesive way to examine code flow. What you end up with is a mountain of code snippets scattered all across your database. Cross your fingers and hope each step gets excuted properly.
Now your just talking utter crap, in most editors you can click on a function call and open the SP that's called.
7) No real debugger. No stepping through the code, no breakpoints, no watches.
Of course there is a debugger, of course you can step through the code, of course you can set breakpoints, utter lies.
8) Most commercial databases charge you per CPU. This means your CPU cycles are best used to keep data integrity, process queries and return recordsets. Most middle tiers are not licensed on a per CPU basis so you can afford to throw a lot of CPU cycles into executing code.
What an ignorant viewpoint. The bottleneck of database engines is disk speed not CPU. What, are you doing FFTs in the stored procedures or something?
9) Last but not least you can couple your middle tier using a high speed interlink so there is no real need to use SPs.
What an excellent example of "Fallacy of Exclusion". This statement would only be true if speed was the only reason to use SPs, however this is not the case so your statement is void.
You have so much wrong here I can hardly believe you are serious! Do yourself a favour and learn a bit about a subject before posting.
Hell yes that helps. I'm a pretty big fan of B5 myself (it's the ONLY scifi show on tv that I've ever thought was any good at all), and I hadn't thought much about the books. I needed some new books to read, looks like I found them :)
:)
Glad I could help
I wouldn't go as far as saying it was the only show that was any good. I enjoyed Stargate also and am slowly collecting the DVD sets. If you really are as you claim a pretty big fan of B5, then I feel it's my duty as another pretty big fan to let you know there's a new movie coming. TMoS (The Memory of Shadows IIRC) it's not in production yet but apparantly approved. You can read JMS's posts at JMSNEWS
Cheers