Ok, I guess I should say for those with short wave radios you can listen to WWV. This is a time service that transmits from Boulder Colorado and WWVH from Hawaii. It is really odd to listen to when they insert leap seconds. They also give solar terrestrial conditions and forecasts among other information.
We don't add in "leap" seconds into our clocks at home. Yes we do. There will be one this year. The hourly 'pips' on BBC radio will get an extra pip at 2006-01-01 00:00:00. --
You can listen to this on WWV/WWVH on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, and 20MHz
"Sometimes I think that people feel that the MPAA is a bunch of Luddites," Brad Hunt, chief technical officer of the MPAA, said in an interview Wednesday afternoon. "In this case, we are trying to incent the consumer to embrace the digital conversion, the digital connection...and that's why we need to drive this technology forward."
Actually I think hes a retard and that whole paragraph is the biggest pile of PR bullshit i've read today.
I certainly would agree with you on this. I don't mind going digital, but I do object to the MPAA/RIAA buying laws to "protect" me for my own good. This is why I won't buy any new TV sets. Currently I use a 21" computer monitor and computer for my entertainment needs. I can rip mp3's, oggs and rip my DVD's onto the hard drive for convince (until the RIAA/MPAA force hard drive manufactures to make RIAA/MPAA approved versions). It's quite ironic that older analog TVR's, TV's, computer equipment and monitors offer more flexibility than the new DRM encumbered digital versions.
Guess I'll have to scrounge up my receipts for the gig of RAM I bought from Crucial several years ago when I had to pay $1 per meg when RAM prices exploded. Maybe I can get reimbursed, but I think it's more likely hell would freeze over first.
That's it! I am formally announcing my intent to run for president with my "Shit will be different" campaign. I have no ties to anyone and will gladly tell the MPAA/RIAA to jam it up their ass.
The promises I will keep:
1.No DRM of any kind on publicly viewed/listened media. 2.No software patents. 3.Adoption of open source in government.
Get your "Shit will be different" button now, and as a bonus I'll throw in the "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out button" while supplys last.
Microsoft doesn't get enough credit for all the technology it invents.
This should read all the technology they steal or buy. Microsoft's stance has always been to "borrow" steal or buy any technology the produce as their own.
This just means you can kiss all your "fair use" rights goodbye. No mater what they try, it will certainly hobble my fair use rights to make copies of my disks so the kids cannot ruin the originals....
I have some magnets I robbed from an old Seagate 4 gig SCA drive. I use them as fridge magnets, but be careful, you can pinch the shit out of yourself:)
Agreed! Stick a fork in it, New Orleans is done. It pisses me off enough that oil refineries are kept in this hurricane prone region. Not to mention the idiotic oil traders use any and all excuses to artificially run up the cost of fuel. As unfeeling as it may seem abandon the city and don't rebuild. I don't want my tax money to be used in a futile rebuilding exercise only to be destroyed again in the next hurricane.
As a licensed amateur radio operator I was beside myself when the FCC gave BPL deployment the green light. It proved to me that none of the commissioners have ANY technical competence at all, and that any decision right or wrong is made entirely for political reasons.
Current BPL technology is a kludge at best, it is the equivalent of duct tape and bailing wire. The interference that is created doesn't just effect the ham bands, it effects every service that is found between 1.8-80 MHz. The "interference mitigation" card is pure bull shit. For non hams how would you feel if I developed a Internet delivery method that disrupted your cell phone service? And every time you attempted to use your cell phone you disrupted your neighbors Internet access.
BPL is a bad idea, the laws of physics will never make it viable or economical, how many of you would get pissed off if I was constantly disrupting your Internet service for minutes or hours with my HF transceiver when I drive through town, I know I would.
You certainly hit the nail on the head with this. Just think of all the taxes and access fees they would charge you for 100M/bit access. Not to mention that the RIAA/MPAA would want to slap a "piracy" tax to cover their losses since your Internet connection "could be used to pirate copyrighted material" at blazingly fast speed.
While not really considered "broadband" I am testing my "National Access" via my verizon cell phone service. On the average I get 16.3kB/sec, not too shabby, about 3X the speed of dial up. A friend of mine has EVDO service, while not the be all end all it's still better than nothing.
The biggest thing I hate with US phone and cable service providers is that they try to make you think they are doing you a favor by giving you sub-standard service. I won't be truly happy till I get 100M/bit full duplex access to the Internet via fiber, cable or some sort of UW-band data service.
Since I live in a real rural area (no cable Internet or ADSL) dial up or cell phones are my only choice. I know there is satellite but low latency is a must. So in the meantime I am posting this via my cell phone service...
I tried recently to get an old version of winDVD to install under wine on SuSE 9.3 on my IBM A31p. To say the least it failed to install. I like linux and Solaris, I think they could really go somewhere with better media support. I am aware of MythTV but haven't tried it personally.
The lack of DVD playback has always frustrated me with linux. It's one of the only reasons I still keep a widows partition on my laptop and desktop machines.
Now if mp3, DVD and other media playback options came with Solaris I would run it on more than just my Sun boxen.
Maybe Thinkgeek could sell these:) I would purchase one just for grins. Now how about a BSD powered fridge, stove, microwave, coffee maker and dishwasher...
Dude, pass the bong, let me try that serious green.
DMCA?????? You have to be fsking kidding me, maybe it's litigation on this level that will do away with the DCMA. But realistically, satan will be wearing long johns before this happens.
Maybe I should find out what it takes to get into Blu-Ray player reprogramming market;) And for an extra $100 mam I can reprogram your unit to not " self destruct"
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I guess Linus could follow the likes of Steve Balmer and use colorful words like "kill" "fuckers" and then throw chairs.
Ok, I guess I should say for those with short wave radios you can listen to WWV. This is a time service that transmits from Boulder Colorado and WWVH from Hawaii. It is really odd to listen to when they insert leap seconds. They also give solar terrestrial conditions and forecasts among other information.
We don't add in "leap" seconds into our clocks at home.
Yes we do. There will be one this year. The hourly 'pips' on BBC radio will get an extra pip at 2006-01-01 00:00:00.
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You can listen to this on WWV/WWVH on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, and 20MHz
I feel so left out :( where can I find a version for Linux, Solaris, DOS and Windows 3.1
"Sometimes I think that people feel that the MPAA is a bunch of Luddites," Brad Hunt, chief technical officer of the MPAA, said in an interview Wednesday afternoon. "In this case, we are trying to incent the consumer to embrace the digital conversion, the digital connection...and that's why we need to drive this technology forward."
Actually I think hes a retard and that whole paragraph is the biggest pile of PR bullshit i've read today.
I certainly would agree with you on this. I don't mind going digital, but I do object to the MPAA/RIAA buying laws to "protect" me for my own good. This is why I won't buy any new TV sets. Currently I use a 21" computer monitor and computer for my entertainment needs. I can rip mp3's, oggs and rip my DVD's onto the hard drive for convince (until the RIAA/MPAA force hard drive manufactures to make RIAA/MPAA approved versions). It's quite ironic that older analog TVR's, TV's, computer equipment and monitors offer more flexibility than the new DRM encumbered digital versions.
Guess I'll have to scrounge up my receipts for the gig of RAM I bought from Crucial several years ago when I had to pay $1 per meg when RAM prices exploded. Maybe I can get reimbursed, but I think it's more likely hell would freeze over first.
That's it! I am formally announcing my intent to run for president with my "Shit will be different" campaign. I have no ties to anyone and will gladly tell the MPAA/RIAA to jam it up their ass.
The promises I will keep:
1.No DRM of any kind on publicly viewed/listened media.
2.No software patents.
3.Adoption of open source in government.
Get your "Shit will be different" button now, and as a bonus I'll throw in the "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out button" while supplys last.
Be carefull, the RIAA might try to use the DMCA claiming they are being harmed by this.
Microsoft doesn't get enough credit for all the technology it invents.
This should read all the technology they steal or buy. Microsoft's stance has always been to "borrow" steal or buy any technology the produce as their own.
The EU and UN can just go get screwed. We didn't force you to connect to the net, you don't like it, build your own.
Hey, as long as they don't use "Goatse crater" we should be ok.
This just means you can kiss all your "fair use" rights goodbye. No mater what they try, it will certainly hobble my fair use rights to make copies of my disks so the kids cannot ruin the originals....
I have some magnets I robbed from an old Seagate 4 gig SCA drive. I use them as fridge magnets, but be careful, you can pinch the shit out of yourself :)
Agreed! Stick a fork in it, New Orleans is done. It pisses me off enough that oil refineries are kept in this hurricane prone region. Not to mention the idiotic oil traders use any and all excuses to artificially run up the cost of fuel. As unfeeling as it may seem abandon the city and don't rebuild. I don't want my tax money to be used in a futile rebuilding exercise only to be destroyed again in the next hurricane.
Damn, hit submit instead of preview :/
Nuff said
That's what I thought. I use NTP deamons all the time, I always edit etc/ntp.conf to fetch the time from several time servers.
As a licensed amateur radio operator I was beside myself when the FCC gave BPL deployment the green light. It proved to me that none of the commissioners have ANY technical competence at all, and that any decision right or wrong is made entirely for political reasons.
Current BPL technology is a kludge at best, it is the equivalent of duct tape and bailing wire. The interference that is created doesn't just effect the ham bands, it effects every service that is found between 1.8-80 MHz. The "interference mitigation" card is pure bull shit. For non hams how would you feel if I developed a Internet delivery method that disrupted your cell phone service? And every time you attempted to use your cell phone you disrupted your neighbors Internet access.
BPL is a bad idea, the laws of physics will never make it viable or economical, how many of you would get pissed off if I was constantly disrupting your Internet service for minutes or hours with my HF transceiver when I drive through town, I know I would.
You certainly hit the nail on the head with this. Just think of all the taxes and access fees they would charge you for 100M/bit access. Not to mention that the RIAA/MPAA would want to slap a "piracy" tax to cover their losses since your Internet connection "could be used to pirate copyrighted material" at blazingly fast speed.
While not really considered "broadband" I am testing my "National Access" via my verizon cell phone service. On the average I get 16.3kB/sec, not too shabby, about 3X the speed of dial up. A friend of mine has EVDO service, while not the be all end all it's still better than nothing.
The biggest thing I hate with US phone and cable service providers is that they try to make you think they are doing you a favor by giving you sub-standard service. I won't be truly happy till I get 100M/bit full duplex access to the Internet via fiber, cable or some sort of UW-band data service.
Since I live in a real rural area (no cable Internet or ADSL) dial up or cell phones are my only choice. I know there is satellite but low latency is a must. So in the meantime I am posting this via my cell phone service...
I tried recently to get an old version of winDVD to install under wine on SuSE 9.3 on my IBM A31p. To say the least it failed to install. I like linux and Solaris, I think they could really go somewhere with better media support. I am aware of MythTV but haven't tried it personally.
The lack of DVD playback has always frustrated me with linux. It's one of the only reasons I still keep a widows partition on my laptop and desktop machines.
Now if mp3, DVD and other media playback options came with Solaris I would run it on more than just my Sun boxen.
Maybe Thinkgeek could sell these :) I would purchase one just for grins. Now how about a BSD powered fridge, stove, microwave, coffee maker and dishwasher...
Dude, pass the bong, let me try that serious green.
DMCA?????? You have to be fsking kidding me, maybe it's litigation on this level that will do away with the DCMA. But realistically, satan will be wearing long johns before this happens.
Maybe I should find out what it takes to get into Blu-Ray player reprogramming market;) And for an extra $100 mam I can reprogram your unit to not " self destruct"