Hey the SSH server and client can work on Windows too! Install Cygwin to find out. I've been using Cygwin/SSH for about 6 months now and I love it. SSH into the machine, remote (secure) VNC, scp/sftp it's all there and was pretty simple to setup.
I love Cygwin more, because it gives me SSH, but without each other I wouldn't use either.
Not really when you consider that there are 2 mic inputs and two line in connections. Using the ones in the back for outputs make the front two default to inputs only.
It just seemed nice to me considering that it's on-board audio. Usually you don't get 5.1 and SPDIF out with on-board audio.
Soundstorm is freaking sweet though. I've used it under Mandrake and watched many movies with the nForce 2 under Windows and Linux with great results. Creative may have their heads up their asses, but Nvidia does good work on hardware and the software they release just plain works.
Surround sound is easy to setup in Windows and Linux. It's more a matter of plugging the right speakers in the right places. I love the idea that you can use an extra mic input as a center channel or something.
It has a few things that Google doesn't have and probably never could have. The first is a multimedia search engine which links directly to online rips of copyrighted materials. Any Joe Chan over in China wanting to download something like the latest Britney Spears album can hop on Baidu and grab any which link they find. Google, being an American company would be hard pressed to do something as outrageous as that which would no doubt incur the wrath of the RIAA and MPAA,
China has new copyright laws and has acted as if they are going to enforce them. Don't expect this sort of feature to last for long on Baidu. The link is to a Chinese article, so it could be filled with propaganda, but they are acting this way to favor western companies. If the AA's make enough noise, Baidu will fall in line too.
They are trying to tell consumers: "The DRM is bound to fail as most methods do. A crack will be available not too long after release. You are getting some new kickass games and movies though - so please don't break the DRM. It's expensive. We are begging you to be on your best behavior; so much so that we've decided to pay for the drive on your new Playstation 3."
You go downtown (Cincinnati) and get a chickenhat and we get drunk and come up to you saying things like:
"Cock head"
"Chicken head"
"Cock-a-doodle-do"
"Fuck off"
Whatever comes to mind. Only 12 days till Oktoberfest too! It's home to the largest chicken dance in the world and the second largest Oktoberfest... lots of food and lots of beer. Maybe you'll see me handing out Linux CD's there? Ohio LinuxFest fliers?
I think that if is labeled: "No Refills", but that usually applies to the fact that the company won't refill the bottle. If they wanted to they can now.
We already have thousands of products which warn "Single use only" or "Not for individual sale" and so forth. Mostly, they are there to protect the company from what a consumer might do later - to keep their actions separate from what a consumer or reseller might do. This is to protect the company from losing business however and just seems wrong.
I'm not saying the stockpiling is good or bad - just that as a fact it has removed oil from the American consumer market since 2001. It has an affect on the oil prices worldwide because that supply, once headed towards a hot American market, isn't available any longer.
Supply shrinks, demand stays the same, price goes up, profit.
but afaict most of the high fuel prices at the moment are due to Katrina knocking out refining capacity not oil prices.
Well, you've got to consider that during world wide demand surges (America and China being the biggest buyers) the supply wasn't going down. What happened? OPEC changed the floor price for oil to $40 a barrel. When you consider cheap gas was at a time when oil was between $30-$35 per barrel you soon realize that you won't being seeing that again.
To get cheap gas we'd have to lower our demand or blow the lid off of the supply numbers. This is a good time to bring up that since 2001 Bush has put more oil away in the "reserves" than ever before. That lowered the supply available to the United States *only*, and made prices higher there/here, *only*.
Then you've got a few natural disasters, the growth in China, a war in an oil rich land and general un-ease over prices. Oh, and no one is buying less gas (until these past few weeks).
It will explode. I say the oil market is seeing a bubble, worldwide.
Back when the court was something, they are the ones who told the police they must read rights to people. Back then, the courts said that people could not be taken by government for no reason. That government could not look at your reading list and label you as a terrorist because you read Carol Marx. Do you know how many Joe McCarthy's there are in government, and how the courts have stopped them?
Times are changing.
Times are changing, indeed. This man tried to block Miranda enforcement, disrupt presidential campaigns (and I'm talking for Goldwater, not for Bush), and opposed Brown v Board. Some Anonymous Coward has the first post right now saying that we should basically say fuck off to politics - but I never knew the guy.
I can't mourn his death - I can only look at it from a political angle. I never knew that stuff about Rehnquist and now I don't feel so much like having my "Rehnquist Killed By Cancer" party I was planning.
Don't ignore the man's actions and legacy for good and bad.
The attorney general that should get involved is Gonzales. Bush already said he had no patience for fraud - Gonzales should just look at the situation and either charge eBay/PayPal or they should charge SA.
One is committing fraud, I think SomethingAweful is pretty safe I think.
Why does it scare you? People stealing TVs are stealing. "Wal-Mart has insurance" is hardly an excuse. Do you have insurance? Can I rob you?
Wait, that's a stretch. It's not an excuse, but these looters are hardly depriving people of things they need. They aren't depriving anyone *because* the insurance will cover it all. I'm just saying, let's stop crying for Wal-Mart or Kmart. In fact, looters clearing out the electronics section probably turned over more product (and profit) than Wal-Mart usually does in the same time frame.
It isn't that I'm trying to justify their actions, I'm just trying to get anyone to understand that when you are so disenfranchised from society - because of race, creed or social class - you likely aren't going to care so much when it's "your turn". That is what these people are feeling, they are feeling it's their turn. Reports said that some people were trying to claim certain parts of the city as their own, and they likely have been waiting for the day they could it. Not because they are criminals, because they found out what it is like to be in control for once in their lives.
I don't think everyone stealing stuff is a 'criminal' (before the hurricane), but even the criminal element out there aren't just born that way. Are they? I've always learned/thought/whatever that criminals are made, not born.
I don't treat criminals any particular way, as I am not in law enforcement or the criminal justice system. I'm just saying that the looters (except the ones taking vitally needed food and water) should be treated like any other time those crimes are committed.
It's just property, a poor boy like you should realize that. The fact that people basically committed a misdemeanor or small felony doesn't give anyone the right to order "shoot to kill". If one person walks out of Wal-Mart with $10,000 in merchandise by him or her self they are still only committing a very small crime (in comparison, we are talking theft here, not baby rape). No matter, you get Miranda rights from a rape case - not a shoplifting, robbery or grand theft case.
To say that shooting to kill or any other inhumane treatment is on the table only makes the looters and rioters go even more crazy. All bets are *really* off. (Now, I'm not trying to say that you wanted "shoot to kill" orders, I'm just talking about the issue at large).
The criminals in New Orleans are criminals, no matter their race, class, or economic status.
This is true - and has been my point for days really. People I talk to confuse "black" with "criminal" in this situation (like they do with every situation). Just looking at the numbers makes you wonder why the "criminals" are almost all "black". 28% of the city is below the poverty line, 84% of the poor are black. A city of a half a million people - and over 100,000 are black.
Whites have moved out of the city, partially due to crime and partially due to racism (remember, this is the state that almost elected David Duke governor back in just 1991). As many people are pointing out - this bothers us (me, others) because we are seeing the effects of disenfranchisement and poverty and almost what has become economic apartheid in this country.
Fuck it: I'm a liberal and with that comes the feeling that I hate to see people die *just* because they are poor. Forget the looters, forget the failed relief efforts. The fact remains that most people living in the city of New Orleans (9th Ward, etc) didn't have access to cars - something that could have saved them from day one. People drown in their own homes because there was nothing they could do, no where to turn. When you just expect everyone to hop in the car and take off - you've committed mass murder. Are the feds, Bush, FEMA, Louisiana's response people, whoever it is, are they that stupid to think that a major city like New Orleans doesn't have a large poor population that can't just "up and go"? And to think, all of the cities poor lived right next to those levees.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan tells a similar tale. Actually there are a few tales of how bacteria, viruses and parasites affect behavior. The reason for these behavior changes is mainly something the host is doing on their own - but only by doing something, like sneezing, can the "infection" spread. Over millions of years these things have worked out ways to use even our own defenses against us.
Sagan and Druyan tell a small story of ants who are infected with a parasite and also climb up a blade of grass or whatever high spot they can find. However, their claim isn't that ants are being infected by fungi - they are being controlled by an actual parasite. When they get into the host ants, the ants are being told somehow to go up. They try to explain that an ant actually doesn't do a lot of "thinking" so it's as easy as pulling the right strings and stimulating the right nerves.
Once the infected, brain dead ant reaches the top of a blade grass it just waits. Then suddenly the grass is eaten by a small herbivore, maybe a boar, and the parasite is pased onto a larger animal - the one it's been trying to infect the whole time. Ants are just easy to control, move fast and stay pretty undetected. Good choice for transportation.
Reminds me of my favorite Family Ties where someone breaks into the new black family on the block's home (to scare them off) and spray paints on the wall:
The police and authorities are not treating people all the same.
Well it depends on how you look at it. A few (handful) of looters struck - the next day. Most of this wasn't as bad as it was reported, but because it was so heavily focused on *everyone* has had to suffer. The idea that it was "unsafe" to enter these areas was just plain wrong. People have been doing what they can to impress those working on relief, even going as far as forming single file lines! As far as treating people with equity, why is it being reported that Hyatt customers get busses before the dying people held up in convention centers or stadiums? (Just one source.)
Basically, everyone is suffering/dying because a few people are causing a problem. So everyone is being punished.
There is no firing into crowds, and that sort of thing. No doubt the authorities are overwhelmed and need all the outside help they can get, but they are coping as best they can.
Coping the best they can? We are talking about simple things like dropping bottled water and MRE's for fellow humans. Sure the local police might not be able to get a hold on the situation, but where is the Guard? Where?
If people are shooting, looting (not food - TV's, etc), causing violence and intimidation, they are being treated like the common criminals they are. If they are people in distress who need help, everyone is trying to get help to them.
Who even cares if someone loots a TV? It's likely ruined with all of the flooding, and by the time the insurance papers are filed it won't matter if it floated away or was water-logged. Sure, keep people out of the homes - but KMart, Wal-Mart and the rest are insured for these items. Still, people loot when they are given the chance. If you know what it was like to live your whole life poor, you'd understand what happens in your mind when the "all rules off" mode sets in. Plus you've got to figure, mob mentality. You can't blame an individual for doing what the crowd is doing. You may want to - but we've seen enough that these types of acts spread with the mob to understand that people just lose control.
But you're idea of treating looters like "the common criminals they are" really scares me. How do you treat criminals? Beat them? Shoot them? Are they less than human? Because that isn't the country I live in, this is America. Umm... have you ever thought that the way you treat someone changes their outlook on life? I just can't get over this part of your post.
"Everyone" trying to get help to these people is just a lie. People are trapped, still, and have people who can come and get them. People have set up ways out and places to stay but they are being told "No".
As an aside, anyone trying to score poliltical [SIC] points in either direction on the back of this disaster should be taken out back for summary execution.
Is it politics when you are pointing out that the federal government is failing these dying people? Is it politics to point out that FEMA has resorted to "worst federal agency" status that it held back before Hurricane Andrew? You can't make a statement like that in America - public life and politics is so intertwined that it is our duty to make an issue out of this. What makes me sick is that people out there are so loyal to the President they fail to acknowledge that he failed us - it makes me sick that they are downplaying the amount of suffering. Laura Bush has said, as well as FEMA Director Michael Brown, that the things we see on TV aren't what is going on. That's bullshit, we've not seen the worst yet. Even worse is that people like Harry Connick Jr (who made it out un-molested by these dangerous types) are saying that is in fact true.
Who is lying? The witnesses or the people who were miles away during Katrina's landfall.
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Why don't you get 5.1 audio with most on-board audio chipsets? Because you got the free 2-channel speakers with the computer that suck.
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Hey the SSH server and client can work on Windows too! Install Cygwin to find out. I've been using Cygwin/SSH for about 6 months now and I love it. SSH into the machine, remote (secure) VNC, scp/sftp it's all there and was pretty simple to setup.
I love Cygwin more, because it gives me SSH, but without each other I wouldn't use either.
Not really when you consider that there are 2 mic inputs and two line in connections. Using the ones in the back for outputs make the front two default to inputs only.
It just seemed nice to me considering that it's on-board audio. Usually you don't get 5.1 and SPDIF out with on-board audio.
Soundstorm is freaking sweet though. I've used it under Mandrake and watched many movies with the nForce 2 under Windows and Linux with great results. Creative may have their heads up their asses, but Nvidia does good work on hardware and the software they release just plain works.
Surround sound is easy to setup in Windows and Linux. It's more a matter of plugging the right speakers in the right places. I love the idea that you can use an extra mic input as a center channel or something.
I wouldn't trade it in.
It has a few things that Google doesn't have and probably never could have. The first is a multimedia search engine which links directly to online rips of copyrighted materials. Any Joe Chan over in China wanting to download something like the latest Britney Spears album can hop on Baidu and grab any which link they find. Google, being an American company would be hard pressed to do something as outrageous as that which would no doubt incur the wrath of the RIAA and MPAA,
China has new copyright laws and has acted as if they are going to enforce them. Don't expect this sort of feature to last for long on Baidu. The link is to a Chinese article, so it could be filled with propaganda, but they are acting this way to favor western companies. If the AA's make enough noise, Baidu will fall in line too.
They are trying to tell consumers: "The DRM is bound to fail as most methods do. A crack will be available not too long after release. You are getting some new kickass games and movies though - so please don't break the DRM. It's expensive. We are begging you to be on your best behavior; so much so that we've decided to pay for the drive on your new Playstation 3."
you can only flip a mattress once
The NFL was invented in a parking lot in Canton (I believe where the NFL hall of fame now sites) by two dudes. That's interesting.
Ummm... but thats all I can think of.
...is chickens.
You go downtown (Cincinnati) and get a chicken hat and we get drunk and come up to you saying things like:
"Cock head"
"Chicken head"
"Cock-a-doodle-do"
"Fuck off"
Whatever comes to mind. Only 12 days till Oktoberfest too! It's home to the largest chicken dance in the world and the second largest Oktoberfest... lots of food and lots of beer. Maybe you'll see me handing out Linux CD's there? Ohio LinuxFest fliers?
I think that if is labeled: "No Refills", but that usually applies to the fact that the company won't refill the bottle. If they wanted to they can now.
We already have thousands of products which warn "Single use only" or "Not for individual sale" and so forth. Mostly, they are there to protect the company from what a consumer might do later - to keep their actions separate from what a consumer or reseller might do. This is to protect the company from losing business however and just seems wrong.
I guess it's like "For OEM Distribution" only...
I'm not saying the stockpiling is good or bad - just that as a fact it has removed oil from the American consumer market since 2001. It has an affect on the oil prices worldwide because that supply, once headed towards a hot American market, isn't available any longer.
Supply shrinks, demand stays the same, price goes up, profit.
"that are"... sorry I cut and pasted from the parent.
No, they are against formats for public documents that is readable for everyone that they didn't develop.
but afaict most of the high fuel prices at the moment are due to Katrina knocking out refining capacity not oil prices.
Well, you've got to consider that during world wide demand surges (America and China being the biggest buyers) the supply wasn't going down. What happened? OPEC changed the floor price for oil to $40 a barrel. When you consider cheap gas was at a time when oil was between $30-$35 per barrel you soon realize that you won't being seeing that again.
To get cheap gas we'd have to lower our demand or blow the lid off of the supply numbers. This is a good time to bring up that since 2001 Bush has put more oil away in the "reserves" than ever before. That lowered the supply available to the United States *only*, and made prices higher there/here, *only*.
Then you've got a few natural disasters, the growth in China, a war in an oil rich land and general un-ease over prices. Oh, and no one is buying less gas (until these past few weeks).
It will explode. I say the oil market is seeing a bubble, worldwide.
http://www.mintruth.com/blog/index.php?p=323
or even:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilliamRehnquist
But you're right - it depends on where you sit on the fence. I certainly don't feel like he was one of the greatest, not by far.
Back when the court was something, they are the ones who told the police they must read rights to people. Back then, the courts said that people could not be taken by government for no reason. That government could not look at your reading list and label you as a terrorist because you read Carol Marx. Do you know how many Joe McCarthy's there are in government, and how the courts have stopped them?
Times are changing.
Times are changing, indeed. This man tried to block Miranda enforcement, disrupt presidential campaigns (and I'm talking for Goldwater, not for Bush), and opposed Brown v Board. Some Anonymous Coward has the first post right now saying that we should basically say fuck off to politics - but I never knew the guy.
I can't mourn his death - I can only look at it from a political angle. I never knew that stuff about Rehnquist and now I don't feel so much like having my "Rehnquist Killed By Cancer" party I was planning.
Don't ignore the man's actions and legacy for good and bad.
The attorney general that should get involved is Gonzales. Bush already said he had no patience for fraud - Gonzales should just look at the situation and either charge eBay/PayPal or they should charge SA.
One is committing fraud, I think SomethingAweful is pretty safe I think.
Okay, all of this typing and I didn't notice your sig.
I've been (somewhat falsely) credited with creating that quote out here on the Internet since 1994.
Why does it scare you? People stealing TVs are stealing. "Wal-Mart has insurance" is hardly an excuse. Do you have insurance? Can I rob you?
Wait, that's a stretch. It's not an excuse, but these looters are hardly depriving people of things they need. They aren't depriving anyone *because* the insurance will cover it all. I'm just saying, let's stop crying for Wal-Mart or Kmart. In fact, looters clearing out the electronics section probably turned over more product (and profit) than Wal-Mart usually does in the same time frame.
It isn't that I'm trying to justify their actions, I'm just trying to get anyone to understand that when you are so disenfranchised from society - because of race, creed or social class - you likely aren't going to care so much when it's "your turn". That is what these people are feeling, they are feeling it's their turn. Reports said that some people were trying to claim certain parts of the city as their own, and they likely have been waiting for the day they could it. Not because they are criminals, because they found out what it is like to be in control for once in their lives.
I don't think everyone stealing stuff is a 'criminal' (before the hurricane), but even the criminal element out there aren't just born that way. Are they? I've always learned/thought/whatever that criminals are made, not born.
I don't treat criminals any particular way, as I am not in law enforcement or the criminal justice system. I'm just saying that the looters (except the ones taking vitally needed food and water) should be treated like any other time those crimes are committed.
It's just property, a poor boy like you should realize that. The fact that people basically committed a misdemeanor or small felony doesn't give anyone the right to order "shoot to kill". If one person walks out of Wal-Mart with $10,000 in merchandise by him or her self they are still only committing a very small crime (in comparison, we are talking theft here, not baby rape). No matter, you get Miranda rights from a rape case - not a shoplifting, robbery or grand theft case.
To say that shooting to kill or any other inhumane treatment is on the table only makes the looters and rioters go even more crazy. All bets are *really* off. (Now, I'm not trying to say that you wanted "shoot to kill" orders, I'm just talking about the issue at large).
The criminals in New Orleans are criminals, no matter their race, class, or economic status.
This is true - and has been my point for days really. People I talk to confuse "black" with "criminal" in this situation (like they do with every situation). Just looking at the numbers makes you wonder why the "criminals" are almost all "black". 28% of the city is below the poverty line, 84% of the poor are black. A city of a half a million people - and over 100,000 are black.
Whites have moved out of the city, partially due to crime and partially due to racism (remember, this is the state that almost elected David Duke governor back in just 1991). As many people are pointing out - this bothers us (me, others) because we are seeing the effects of disenfranchisement and poverty and almost what has become economic apartheid in this country.
Fuck it: I'm a liberal and with that comes the feeling that I hate to see people die *just* because they are poor. Forget the looters, forget the failed relief efforts. The fact remains that most people living in the city of New Orleans (9th Ward, etc) didn't have access to cars - something that could have saved them from day one. People drown in their own homes because there was nothing they could do, no where to turn. When you just expect everyone to hop in the car and take off - you've committed mass murder. Are the feds, Bush, FEMA, Louisiana's response people, whoever it is, are they that stupid to think that a major city like New Orleans doesn't have a large poor population that can't just "up and go"? And to think, all of the cities poor lived right next to those levees.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan tells a similar tale. Actually there are a few tales of how bacteria, viruses and parasites affect behavior. The reason for these behavior changes is mainly something the host is doing on their own - but only by doing something, like sneezing, can the "infection" spread. Over millions of years these things have worked out ways to use even our own defenses against us.
Sagan and Druyan tell a small story of ants who are infected with a parasite and also climb up a blade of grass or whatever high spot they can find. However, their claim isn't that ants are being infected by fungi - they are being controlled by an actual parasite. When they get into the host ants, the ants are being told somehow to go up. They try to explain that an ant actually doesn't do a lot of "thinking" so it's as easy as pulling the right strings and stimulating the right nerves.
Once the infected, brain dead ant reaches the top of a blade grass it just waits. Then suddenly the grass is eaten by a small herbivore, maybe a boar, and the parasite is pased onto a larger animal - the one it's been trying to infect the whole time. Ants are just easy to control, move fast and stay pretty undetected. Good choice for transportation.
I can't really believe that I'm the only one who has read this book here at Slashdot. Well, barely related but interesting: Ants, Mushroom and Mold: An Evolutionary Arms Race By NICHOLAS WADE.
And BTW; Support bacteria, it's the only culture some people have!
The police and authorities are not treating people all the same.
Well it depends on how you look at it. A few (handful) of looters struck - the next day. Most of this wasn't as bad as it was reported, but because it was so heavily focused on *everyone* has had to suffer. The idea that it was "unsafe" to enter these areas was just plain wrong. People have been doing what they can to impress those working on relief, even going as far as forming single file lines! As far as treating people with equity, why is it being reported that Hyatt customers get busses before the dying people held up in convention centers or stadiums? (Just one source.)
Basically, everyone is suffering/dying because a few people are causing a problem. So everyone is being punished.
There is no firing into crowds, and that sort of thing. No doubt the authorities are overwhelmed and need all the outside help they can get, but they are coping as best they can.
Coping the best they can? We are talking about simple things like dropping bottled water and MRE's for fellow humans. Sure the local police might not be able to get a hold on the situation, but where is the Guard? Where?
If people are shooting, looting (not food - TV's, etc), causing violence and intimidation, they are being treated like the common criminals they are. If they are people in distress who need help, everyone is trying to get help to them.
Who even cares if someone loots a TV? It's likely ruined with all of the flooding, and by the time the insurance papers are filed it won't matter if it floated away or was water-logged. Sure, keep people out of the homes - but KMart, Wal-Mart and the rest are insured for these items. Still, people loot when they are given the chance. If you know what it was like to live your whole life poor, you'd understand what happens in your mind when the "all rules off" mode sets in. Plus you've got to figure, mob mentality. You can't blame an individual for doing what the crowd is doing. You may want to - but we've seen enough that these types of acts spread with the mob to understand that people just lose control.
But you're idea of treating looters like "the common criminals they are" really scares me. How do you treat criminals? Beat them? Shoot them? Are they less than human? Because that isn't the country I live in, this is America. Umm... have you ever thought that the way you treat someone changes their outlook on life? I just can't get over this part of your post.
"Everyone" trying to get help to these people is just a lie. People are trapped, still, and have people who can come and get them. People have set up ways out and places to stay but they are being told "No".
As an aside, anyone trying to score poliltical [SIC] points in either direction on the back of this disaster should be taken out back for summary execution.
Is it politics when you are pointing out that the federal government is failing these dying people? Is it politics to point out that FEMA has resorted to "worst federal agency" status that it held back before Hurricane Andrew? You can't make a statement like that in America - public life and politics is so intertwined that it is our duty to make an issue out of this. What makes me sick is that people out there are so loyal to the President they fail to acknowledge that he failed us - it makes me sick that they are downplaying the amount of suffering. Laura Bush has said, as well as FEMA Director Michael Brown, that the things we see on TV aren't what is going on. That's bullshit, we've not seen the worst yet. Even worse is that people like Harry Connick Jr (who made it out un-molested by these dangerous types) are saying that is in fact true.
Who is lying? The witnesses or the people who were miles away during Katrina's landfall.
No, no...
http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/262.html