As soon as I first saw the PSP, I saw it as a very nice looking controller/display for a homebrew music player for my truck. I have been looking for an inexpensive 6-7 inch color LCD monitors for quite a while now and simply haven't found one. Being able to interact with the box via web pages is all I need, so I might just have buy one now. I fully expect that the firmware config will be hacked much further soon.
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I think I had/have OGRE for my Atari 800XL.
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Oh man, I thought this was going to be related to the old Steve Jackson Games "Ogre".
Although I suppose shuffle could be defined differently, I suspect that most people view shuffle and random as meaning the same thing and that the word selection is merely the choice of the developer. I wouldn't expect shuffle playback to involve rules either in place of or in addition to random selection.
You know I have noticed that WMP seems to begin repeating songs way too soon when shuffle is enabled. I have about 41 hours of music presently. I recently switched to WinAMP and have a much shorter list of playable tracks(most of my music is encoded as WMA, not MP3. I wonder if it suffers from the same "low ID" problem you described.
Here's the senario: When a new card is issued, it's unique RF signature will have to be retrieved so that it can be linked to an account. The crooks will get this signature the same way the card issuer did. What will keep a crook from capturing this RF signature on the way from your table to the restaurant's POS just as they do a magnetic strip and then later cloning it using a special keychain fob? The crook would then position the fob at the reader as he waves a nonfunctioning card across the sensor. Bam! The victim just paid for what the crook will be taking home.
I suspect that this is really as way for Visa/Mastercard/Amex to make money from merchants buying the new readers.
Here's another thing... With this new super secure RF technology, the cashier won't be looking at my card in order to compare the signature on it with the forge one provided by the crook? The cashier also won't be able to pick out obviously fake cards since she/he won't be looking at it up close.
This is just another attempt to fix something by replacing it with another broken system. How is the current "swipe card and sign on the line" method so inconvenient that it needs to be replaced? I just don't get it.
I hope that, if there, they can be disabled, because I don't like them. I also don't how XP wants to group together windows using one button on the taskbar. I have this annoyance disabled. A row of tabs gets in the way.
Weight and all-around sturdiness are characteristics that have definitely changed over the years. Newer printers tend to be made of more and more plastic and have more flimsy designs.
The Laserjet 4 and 5 are very similar printers underneath. They even share some components. I have had a LJ5 since 1998 or so and use it a lot for one person. I have had no problems with it. I will hate having to buy a new printer down the road.
I use TightVNC for remote connectivity, and it works great. All you have to do is initially install, configuure, and place an icon on the desktop for it. You would also need to forward a port(5900 is the default) on the person's firewall to their computer if one is in use. This could enabled and disabled with extra work if you weren't okay with leaving it open. As long the TightVNC server wasn't running, nothing would be listening on the port 24/7 anyway.
In order to connect, you would need to know the user's public IP, and there are different ways to do this. I refer my family members to a webpage I have that displays this. They give it to you on the phone, and I then tell the person to double-click the icon. Out through NAT and back in through NAT works fine for me. It's much easier to drive than to tell the person how to over a phone.
I wouldn't consider John Public being able to view the unsecured video signal as being "hackable". However, monitoring the RF signal in order to determine the type of security in use and then circumventing it would make it "hackable" in my book.
Although not being able to watch a recording in another room is inconvenient, I pay $6.95 per month for the service with no additional cost for equipment and I can record any every channel. So, it is the best value in my mind.
I just don't get how digital cable as it is today isn't good enough. It does everything I need it to do, and the built-in DVR makes it even better. Why is anyone even pursuing TVIP? I suppose that I just don't understand.
It won't matter eventually after the US pulls out of Iraq, because the country will do what they want. I fully believe the appointed leaders of the liberated state are playing us as much as we are playing them. They will accept laws like this now and throw them out as soon as they no longer need us there.
In September, while waiting for my red-eye out of the Vegas, I noticed one of the monitors behind the counter at my gate was at a console password prompt. The attached computer was running Windows. I told the attendent about it so that Joe Hacker would see the wrong thing.
I am independent on all issues in that I consider all ideas and each side of an issue. I choose what I be the best for the whole. My brother is a conservative to the bone and tells me that I should pick a team. I won't because I believe doing so will cause me to miss half of the good ideas out there.
Remember, the people of today are only concerned about today. They don't care about how it might be for our ancestors and other living things to exist on this rock decades from now. It is so sad how it is a ME world now!
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This article was in the current print issue of Wired and is a good read. It is unfortunate that they are not able to afford college, MIT or not.
-Slashdot Junky
KofP is outside Philly. I attended some training there for work several years back.
-Slashdot Junky
As soon as I first saw the PSP, I saw it as a very nice looking controller/display for a homebrew music player for my truck. I have been looking for an inexpensive 6-7 inch color LCD monitors for quite a while now and simply haven't found one. Being able to interact with the box via web pages is all I need, so I might just have buy one now. I fully expect that the firmware config will be hacked much further soon.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
I think I had/have OGRE for my Atari 800XL.
-Slashdot Junky
Oh man, I thought this was going to be related to the old Steve Jackson Games "Ogre".
http://www.sjgames.com/ogre/
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
I am using this to make better use of the outlets on my power strips.
. as p?T1=121+2550
http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail
-Slashdot Junky
Although I suppose shuffle could be defined differently, I suspect that most people view shuffle and random as meaning the same thing and that the word selection is merely the choice of the developer. I wouldn't expect shuffle playback to involve rules either in place of or in addition to random selection.
-Slashdot Junky
You know I have noticed that WMP seems to begin repeating songs way too soon when shuffle is enabled. I have about 41 hours of music presently. I recently switched to WinAMP and have a much shorter list of playable tracks(most of my music is encoded as WMA, not MP3. I wonder if it suffers from the same "low ID" problem you described.
-Slashdot Junky
Here's the senario:
When a new card is issued, it's unique RF signature will have to be retrieved so that it can be linked to an account. The crooks will get this signature the same way the card issuer did. What will keep a crook from capturing this RF signature on the way from your table to the restaurant's POS just as they do a magnetic strip and then later cloning it using a special keychain fob? The crook would then position the fob at the reader as he waves a nonfunctioning card across the sensor. Bam! The victim just paid for what the crook will be taking home.
I suspect that this is really as way for Visa/Mastercard/Amex to make money from merchants buying the new readers.
Here's another thing...
With this new super secure RF technology, the cashier won't be looking at my card in order to compare the signature on it with the forge one provided by the crook? The cashier also won't be able to pick out obviously fake cards since she/he won't be looking at it up close.
This is just another attempt to fix something by replacing it with another broken system. How is the current "swipe card and sign on the line" method so inconvenient that it needs to be replaced? I just don't get it.
Um, Amazon better already be paying my state the sales tax I pay when checking out.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
I hope that, if there, they can be disabled, because I don't like them. I also don't how XP wants to group together windows using one button on the taskbar. I have this annoyance disabled. A row of tabs gets in the way.
-Slashdot Junky
Weight and all-around sturdiness are characteristics that have definitely changed over the years. Newer printers tend to be made of more and more plastic and have more flimsy designs.
-Slashdot Junky
Even thought that's too big for a home office, you just can't beat $10 for a working 5si.
-Slashdot Junky
The Laserjet 4 and 5 are very similar printers underneath. They even share some components. I have had a LJ5 since 1998 or so and use it a lot for one person. I have had no problems with it. I will hate having to buy a new printer down the road.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
I use TightVNC for remote connectivity, and it works great. All you have to do is initially install, configuure, and place an icon on the desktop for it. You would also need to forward a port(5900 is the default) on the person's firewall to their computer if one is in use. This could enabled and disabled with extra work if you weren't okay with leaving it open. As long the TightVNC server wasn't running, nothing would be listening on the port 24/7 anyway.
In order to connect, you would need to know the user's public IP, and there are different ways to do this. I refer my family members to a webpage I have that displays this. They give it to you on the phone, and I then tell the person to double-click the icon. Out through NAT and back in through NAT works fine for me. It's much easier to drive than to tell the person how to over a phone.
-Slashdot Junky
I wouldn't consider John Public being able to view the unsecured video signal as being "hackable". However, monitoring the RF signal in order to determine the type of security in use and then circumventing it would make it "hackable" in my book.
-Slashdot Junky
I had an Atari 800XL and still do actually.
-Slashdot Junky
Although not being able to watch a recording in another room is inconvenient, I pay $6.95 per month for the service with no additional cost for equipment and I can record any every channel. So, it is the best value in my mind.
-Slashdot
I just don't get how digital cable as it is today isn't good enough. It does everything I need it to do, and the built-in DVR makes it even better. Why is anyone even pursuing TVIP? I suppose that I just don't understand.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
It won't matter eventually after the US pulls out of Iraq, because the country will do what they want. I fully believe the appointed leaders of the liberated state are playing us as much as we are playing them. They will accept laws like this now and throw them out as soon as they no longer need us there.
-Slashdot Junky
In September, while waiting for my red-eye out of the Vegas, I noticed one of the monitors behind the counter at my gate was at a console password prompt. The attached computer was running Windows. I told the attendent about it so that Joe Hacker would see the wrong thing.
-Slashdot Junky
I am independent on all issues in that I consider all ideas and each side of an issue. I choose what I be the best for the whole. My brother is a conservative to the bone and tells me that I should pick a team. I won't because I believe doing so will cause me to miss half of the good ideas out there.
-Slashdot Junky
So much software could be put on a bloat-loss diet plan. That's as in weight-loss. I'm so funny!
-Slashdot Junky
You already know that I meant descendents.
Remember, the people of today are only concerned about today. They don't care about how it might be for our ancestors and other living things to exist on this rock decades from now. It is so sad how it is a ME world now!