I have a load of AAC from iTunes (ok, pymusique, thanks chaps) and I'm havinga hard time getting mencoder or something to convert them to mp3.
I know its a doddle and I'm looking in the wrong place, so it would be nice to see what command line tools (and spells of tools) folk are using to transcode?
You need good examples to SHOW what your definitions mean.
You need good definitions and specifications so developers can extend the given examples to their own situation.
Each new class of capability for a given module will need some examples. Too many trivial examples and not enough meaty examples driver developers mad with rage.
If your SDK has well defined uses, tell a story of a developer writing and refining some code for a given purpose, so the reader can see how and why the more subtle points of the APIs are important.
Like: Windows NT (with and without the win 95 shell) Windows 95 Windows 95 OSR2 Windows 98 Windows ME
and then later
Windows 2000 Windows XP Pro Windows XP Home Windows Server 2003 Windows Terminal Services Edition Windows Advanced Data Centre Edition Windows Small Business Server Windows XP without multimedia
I think that you are mostly right, however the parent has one point that installing WINE on an OS under XEN can seperate windows apps from being able to tamper with your real installation (any WINE-friendly trojans out there yet?).
I agree though, that "seperartion of state" and "tradeoff" make it _sound_ like the guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
However, it doesn make sense.
Normal WINE is like qemu-fast, and XEN'd WINE is like qemu.
So you sacrificed flexibility for... (wait for it) push email sms to fax
Apart from the other features which are nothing to do with the mobile device, the P800, P900, P910 and E200, C500 (last 2 are MS smartphones from Orange) all do just what you listed straight out of the box.
And they run all the same java midlets.
So what you are really saying is, the blackberry was the closest fit to fit your mind and convoluted infrastructure.
Fair enough, it lets you get back to work.
My P900 lets me SSH back to home from work.
I'm happy that it works for you, but as a device and a technology I still think the blackberry is just modern stoneage that managed to fit in.
I see it might do well in america with their poor mobile networks, bad monopolies and little choice of devices. I just can't believe a european likes it.
I can't work out why the blackberry ever catches on compared with the P900 and P910, or XDA, esp the newer XDAIIS with built in wireless LAN as well as bluetooth.
Thesebeat the treo hollow too unless you really want PALM OS
I think he replied to himself under the guise of a fictional charcter
1) Create new slashdot account 2) post ignorant but funny comment 3) respond under your true account 4) fail to profit with karma cos you only get mod'd FUNNY, if that.
This would be the national insurance rise about a year ago when the NHS pointed out that as they were the nations largest employer it was going to cost them an awful lot too.
I replied to a guy who was talking about the difficulty in getting an equation (I guess he meant function) to come out with a different answer every time.
Thankfully maths is more consistent than that, but I was trying to point out what people do instead.
I don't have any comment to make on what constitutes randomness, only on algorthmic attempts.
err... how about a mathematical equation which when evaluated comes out to a number not very obviously related to the input, and next time you feed in the output from last time, and it takes a long time before the cycle repeats.
the idea is that you DO change the inputs but you need to come up with a good source of inputs. So you use the outputs of the previous time.
The distribution of heads/tails calling in your school is NOT even, no doubt heads was called more often than tails.
Over a long run heads/tails comes out even, your friends lose more often as long as you have enough cash to last you out of any short runs of "bad luck"
The paradox is that in isolation each friend did not do wrong to chose "heads" for a single throw.
search freshmeat for mkautosmb, its absolutely top. It browses your LAN and creates automount config files for them, yee hah!
I had to edit it to do "autofs --version" when checking which version of autofs you have, and to make it write out "cifs" instead of "smbfs" to ge around a current smbfs/win2003-server compatability problem.
Either that or look at smb4k, but it suffers from the same smbfs problem I mentioned.
Don't mistake me for the composite open course fan.
I'm merely making an off the wall (orthogonal) response to your commented anticipation that security suddennly becomes a process when open source software has an exploit.
I'm definitely talking about the past, I did say "last year", and lets face it, when the department of homeland security warns people off using MSIE I think it is safe to say "product insecurity, thy name is MSIE", and if it happens to firefox, I'll say it about firefox.
Security IS a process, I agree with you, and it can't be delivered by a product. Insecurity CAN be delivered by a product and has been. You can't argue with that. Security can be impossible with some products. Cough cough. And Firefox may turn out to be one of them.
I didn't mention firefox or Linux, or make any suggestions regarding them.
I'm typing this message using Firefox on coLinux running under windows XP home with NX machines X server and FreeNX X Client.
When they set their price they will also think they need to pay you enough or you wont help next time.
I have a rule with a similar philosphy: I make them bring their computer to me to fix. (Easier to download the updates with my broadband, too).
If they can't make their problems convenient to me, it often indictaes that the problem is not too great.
However this week I made a second 3 hour housecall to someone with nothing but a J2O (moderately pleasant orange soft drink)in return. The guy in question gives so much time and effort for free to other people it would be a mockery to charge him eventhough he offerred to pay.
It does most of what you want including code folding and even integrates with gubed (see freshmeat,net), the php debugger written in PHP.
Qunata is ACE, apart from the odd bit of extra unneccesary screen painting which really shows up if you are running coLinux and FreeNX instead of booting natively (sometimes I have to do it that way).
If you are not tailgating then you don't have to stop suddenly, you can slow down giving the driver behind you more time to brake.
If you are right up against the car in front you don't have that extra time to give the driver behind you and so then he does hit your car. Not your fault, but small comfort when you still couldhave avoided it.
Forth, being an extensible language by design is also one of the few truly verifiable languages from a point of view of trust.
Consider "Reflections on Trusting Ttust". Because the forth core can bemade very tiney (even as little as 3 forth words - ok this makes an inefficent forth) the rest of the forth can be in ascii source form and compiled on-the-fly at bootup.
This makes it easy-ish to verify that the tiny binary core is safe and un-tampered with and the main ascii source easy to examine and diff for changes.
Try certifying that your C/C++ code based on generations of binary output from C compilers is safe.
whereas.debs have multiple programs and alternative addon programs to manage it all, with overlapping capabilities leaving puzzlement as to which application is more suitable for a particular aspect of package management.
Am I the only one for whom dselect on a testing/unstable tried to un-install most of kde, followed by (after crafty refusal) most of gnome?
dselect had the various packages selected but "dselect, install" felt the need to remove them.
apt-get install on all the "de-instal candidates" managed to restore their keep status an in the end some single library as updated asa result (gah, forgot which one).
I merely mean to point out that there is no great reason to find rpm as a format any worse than the rest. Most package management schemes implement the same abstract capabilties.
If you can name any, how confident are you that these are not user-ignorance?
Finally, are you confusing RPM the package format with RPM the package manager? There is more than one RPM based dependancy manager just as there are many (and layers of) package managers for other package formats, e.g. deb.
yes, but that would be one random number, the algorithm can generate lots of them.
The mac address helps keep the number unique to the PC. the date and time and some big random numbers help keep it unique of all the numbers generated by that PC
I beleieve newer algorithms are just pure random though.
Whats the birthday algorithm on 2^128? How many guids need generating to have a 50% chance that two are the same.
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Seems like a funny kind of normalcy to me.
Sam
But what tools do you use?
I have a load of AAC from iTunes (ok, pymusique, thanks chaps) and I'm havinga hard time getting mencoder or something to convert them to mp3.
I know its a doddle and I'm looking in the wrong place, so it would be nice to see what command line tools (and spells of tools) folk are using to transcode?
Sam
You need good examples to SHOW what your definitions mean.
You need good definitions and specifications so developers can extend the given examples to their own situation.
Each new class of capability for a given module will need some examples. Too many trivial examples and not enough meaty examples driver developers mad with rage.
If your SDK has well defined uses, tell a story of a developer writing and refining some code for a given purpose, so the reader can see how and why the more subtle points of the APIs are important.
The PERL 4 Camel book is a good example of this.
Sam
Like:
Windows NT (with and without the win 95 shell)
Windows 95
Windows 95 OSR2
Windows 98
Windows ME
and then later
Windows 2000
Windows XP Pro
Windows XP Home
Windows Server 2003
Windows Terminal Services Edition
Windows Advanced Data Centre Edition
Windows Small Business Server
Windows XP without multimedia
and also
Smartphone 2002
Smartphone 2003
(each customized by hardware manufacturer)
PocketPC 2002/2003
(like wise)
I hardly think linux is any worse just because some of those flavours are "done at home" and "just for fun".
Sam
Easily/better is a matter of debate, which the chap called "trade off"
What the guy said may not be neatly expressed but it isn't nonsense and he does make real distinctions.
Def. not a troll.
Sam
I think that you are mostly right, however the parent has one point that installing WINE on an OS under XEN can seperate windows apps from being able to tamper with your real installation (any WINE-friendly trojans out there yet?).
I agree though, that "seperartion of state" and "tradeoff" make it _sound_ like the guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
However, it doesn make sense.
Normal WINE is like qemu-fast, and XEN'd WINE is like qemu.
Sam
So you sacrificed flexibility for... (wait for it)
push email
sms to fax
Apart from the other features which are nothing to do with the mobile device, the P800, P900, P910 and E200, C500 (last 2 are MS smartphones from Orange) all do just what you listed straight out of the box.
And they run all the same java midlets.
So what you are really saying is, the blackberry was the closest fit to fit your mind and convoluted infrastructure.
Fair enough, it lets you get back to work.
My P900 lets me SSH back to home from work.
I'm happy that it works for you, but as a device and a technology I still think the blackberry is just modern stoneage that managed to fit in.
I see it might do well in america with their poor mobile networks, bad monopolies and little choice of devices. I just can't believe a european likes it.
Ah well!
Sam
I can't work out why the blackberry ever catches on compared with the P900 and P910, or XDA, esp the newer XDAIIS with built in wireless LAN as well as bluetooth.
Thesebeat the treo hollow too unless you really want PALM OS
Blackberry to P900 is like Lynx to Firefox.
Sam
I think he replied to himself under the guise of a fictional charcter
1) Create new slashdot account
2) post ignorant but funny comment
3) respond under your true account
4) fail to profit with karma cos you only get mod'd FUNNY, if that.
I think its funny.
Sam
This would be the national insurance rise about a year ago when the NHS pointed out that as they were the nations largest employer it was going to cost them an awful lot too.
Sam
I know, I know, I was only trying to tackle the confusion over "an equation thatcomes up with something different each you useit"
I should have put "thats not really random though" i my post, but I thought grandparents covered it.
Sam
I replied to a guy who was talking about the difficulty in getting an equation (I guess he meant function) to come out with a different answer every time.
Thankfully maths is more consistent than that, but I was trying to point out what people do instead.
I don't have any comment to make on what constitutes randomness, only on algorthmic attempts.
Sam
err... how about a mathematical equation which when evaluated comes out to a number not very obviously related to the input, and next time you feed in the output from last time, and it takes a long time before the cycle repeats.
the idea is that you DO change the inputs but you need to come up with a good source of inputs. So you use the outputs of the previous time.
Sam
Here's your technique:
The distribution of heads/tails calling in your school is NOT even, no doubt heads was called more often than tails.
Over a long run heads/tails comes out even, your friends lose more often as long as you have enough cash to last you out of any short runs of "bad luck"
The paradox is that in isolation each friend did not do wrong to chose "heads" for a single throw.
Sam
search freshmeat for mkautosmb, its absolutely top.
It browses your LAN and creates automount config files for them, yee hah!
I had to edit it to do "autofs --version" when checking which version of autofs you have, and to make it write out "cifs" instead of "smbfs" to ge around a current smbfs/win2003-server compatability problem.
Either that or look at smb4k, but it suffers from the same smbfs problem I mentioned.
Sam
Don't mistake me for the composite open course fan.
I'm merely making an off the wall (orthogonal) response to your commented anticipation that security suddennly becomes a process when open source software has an exploit.
I'm definitely talking about the past, I did say "last year", and lets face it, when the department of homeland security warns people off using MSIE I think it is safe to say "product insecurity, thy name is MSIE", and if it happens to firefox, I'll say it about firefox.
Security IS a process, I agree with you, and it can't be delivered by a product. Insecurity CAN be delivered by a product and has been. You can't argue with that. Security can be impossible with some products. Cough cough. And Firefox may turn out to be one of them.
I didn't mention firefox or Linux, or make any suggestions regarding them.
I'm typing this message using Firefox on coLinux running under windows XP home with NX machines X server and FreeNX X Client.
And why not!
Sam
Thats a good idea.
When they set their price they will also think they need to pay you enough or you wont help next time.
I have a rule with a similar philosphy: I make them bring their computer to me to fix. (Easier to download the updates with my broadband, too).
If they can't make their problems convenient to me, it often indictaes that the problem is not too great.
However this week I made a second 3 hour housecall to someone with nothing but a J2O (moderately pleasant orange soft drink)in return. The guy in question gives so much time and effort for free to other people it would be a mockery to charge him eventhough he offerred to pay.
Sam
...insecurity is a product, and it's name last year has been Internet Explorer.
There may be double standards, but this time isn'tone of them.
Sam
Search on freshmeat.net for quanta.
It does most of what you want including code folding and even integrates with gubed (see freshmeat,net), the php debugger written in PHP.
Qunata is ACE, apart from the odd bit of extra unneccesary screen painting which really shows up if you are running coLinux and FreeNX instead of booting natively (sometimes I have to do it that way).
It doesn't check your includes yet...
Sam
What about using something that uses a firewall, something like:
libusesfirewall.so
or
usefwall.dll
? I wonder.
Or maybe:
libdoesntuseafirewall.so
and then a "third" party releases:
libdoesuseafirewallreally.so
implementing the same convenient function calls.
Sam
If you are not tailgating then you don't have to stop suddenly, you can slow down giving the driver behind you more time to brake.
If you are right up against the car in front you don't have that extra time to give the driver behind you and so then he does hit your car. Not your fault, but small comfort when you still couldhave avoided it.
Sam
Large database systems can and have been written in forth.
q =a uthor%3Aerather%40forth.com+database&qt_s=Search+G roups
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&
Forth, being an extensible language by design is also one of the few truly verifiable languages from a point of view of trust.
Consider "Reflections on Trusting Ttust".
Because the forth core can bemade very tiney (even as little as 3 forth words - ok this makes an inefficent forth) the rest of the forth can be in ascii source form and compiled on-the-fly at bootup.
This makes it easy-ish to verify that the tiny binary core is safe and un-tampered with and the main ascii source easy to examine and diff for changes.
Try certifying that your C/C++ code based on generations of binary output from C compilers is safe.
Sam
whereas .debs have multiple programs and alternative addon programs to manage it all, with overlapping capabilities leaving puzzlement as to which application is more suitable for a particular aspect of package management.
Am I the only one for whom dselect on a testing/unstable tried to un-install most of kde, followed by (after crafty refusal) most of gnome?
dselect had the various packages selected but "dselect, install" felt the need to remove them.
apt-get install on all the "de-instal candidates" managed to restore their keep status an in the end some single library as updated asa result (gah, forgot which one).
I merely mean to point out that there is no great reason to find rpm as a format any worse than the rest. Most package management schemes implement the same abstract capabilties.
Sam
what problems does RPM have?
If you can name any, how confident are you that these are not user-ignorance?
Finally, are you confusing RPM the package format with RPM the package manager? There is more than one RPM based dependancy manager just as there are many (and layers of) package managers for other package formats, e.g. deb.
Sam
yes, but that would be one random number, the algorithm can generate lots of them.
The mac address helps keep the number unique to the PC.
the date and time and some big random numbers help keep it unique of all the numbers generated by that PC
I beleieve newer algorithms are just pure random though.
Whats the birthday algorithm on 2^128? How many guids need generating to have a 50% chance that two are the same.
Left as an excercise for the karma-hungry
Sam