You're probably thinking of the Canopus Pure 3D. It was good card and had TV out well before it was a standard feature. I remember hooking Quake ][ up to the big screen in the fraternity house and watching people ogle over it. Also, it was a 2MB framebuffer (like all Voodoo I cards) and a 4MB texture buffer.
I've also noticed that there is another interesting phenomenon related to this, that is the spamming of online status pages. I used to have a web page where people could go and look at statistics of my site (powered by AWStats). However, I started to get a lot of false requests with referrers from various spam farm sites. The thought that these people had was if you spammed the sites that made their referrer logs available then people would look and see how they linked, when in fact they didn't. It was fairly easy to stop, I just blackholed all of China, Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore at my router, but it shouldn't be the preferred method.
This is essentialy a patent that MS can't really enforce, at least not to take out AIM or ICQ. The reason? AOL owns the patent on instant messaging. I don't see what good an instant messaging typing indicator is if you can't do instant messaging in the first place.
According to my version of convert, it does. Running:
convert lion.svg lion.png eog lion.png
Pops up eye of gnome with the png version the cute little lion cub. No problems at all. I have had some problems with a few graphics in the past, but most seem to work fine. Also, for most SVGs PNG should be the preferred raster format to convert them as they are usually more solid colors than a photo, which is what JPEG is great for. This is done with the version of ImageMagick that ships with RedHat 9 (or maybe was updated with freshrpms), 5.4.7-10.
I don't want to think that I'm the only reason for this happening, but I'd like to think I played a small role. I'm from Minnesota and try to follow my elected representatives in Washington. When Senator Coleman joined the senate in January of 2003, I saw that he was appointed as chairman of the Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations. I began to write and call him (quite often at that). I'd imagine that hundreds of others people (both Minnesotan and otherwise) did the same thing. Believe it or not, American Government does work and in early August Senator Coleman announced he was going to start investigations into this stuff.
Then when EFF sent out an email in August asking people to send thanks to the Senator, I was one of the first in line to do it, hopefully this will help to ensure that Senator Coleman continues to be receptive.
Of course, if you don't want to go through the effort you can either send money to the EFF or just deal with the fact that corporations own America.
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This is not an example of the Grid Computing (ala Globus) that we've been hearing about. This is another example of laying out processor cores on a chip. So a better thing would be to compare this to the ideas for the UltraSPARC V and IBM BlueGene computers where multiple processing cores are put on one chip and then arranged in a grid (think physical grid) architecture.
Grid Computing deals with computation and information sharing seemlessy across a network, they used to always say like how the power grid works. Which in reality is about right as it doesn't always work as advertised.
Anyway, Grid Computing is mainly concerned with software to allow multiple computers to work together seemlessly. This includes registry services, single sign of, information transfer, etc.
This appears to be the rather fortunate result of a phenomenon called "Buzzword collision", where two different projects pick the same buzzword in hopes to really confuse people who don't read the articles and trick PHBs into thinking that each project is ueberimportant.
Nice to see you can copy stuff from other sites. Moderators, please think stuff when you moderate, don't moderate high because it's a long comment. This is a lengthy comment posted 37 minutes after the article went live (by an AC none the less). It's lengthy, covers many topics and is linkified, also by my count it's 2856 words. That means the person had to have written this at a rate of about 106 words a minute. While some on the community can type that fast when working from a stream of consciousness or transcribing, it's REALLY hard to do for extended periods, especially when developing new thoughts.
Wouldn't they have been able to challenge this lawsuit with a great deal of ease by pointing out that the RIAA illegally collected information about the online habits of someone under 13? If I'm correct the Child Online Protection Act prohibits collection of information about online behavior for those under 13 without parental consent.
Actually, nope it isn't. The one that I'm thinking of is by millenium park, a little over a mile south of that one. Come think of it, I think I've seen that one too.
There used to be one on Michigan avenue (I think around Adams) on the northwest corner in Chicago. However, when they redid the street, they just sorta covered up some of it. I believe you can still see about 1/2 of it. I never bothered reading it, I thought it was one of those weird art things that the city tends to do from time to time.
I own one of these little guys and I must say it's a neat little box. However, please be aware of the following issues that you might run into with it:
1) it runs quite hot. make sure it gets plenty of air. we had ours sitting on the carpet with the DSL modem on top and it would frequently over heat. Moving the modem off and setting the wrt54g on a board seemed to fix this.
2) it requires that you have good wiring. you may be shocked to know this, but if you live in an old house (like many college students) your wiring has a good chance of being miswired. The wrt54g will not work with wiring faults (even though many devices work just fine). the solution is to put a good surge protector or UPS between the device and the outlet. this seems to fix everything.
3) the dhcp implementation is a little funky and sometimes seems to reply with a DHCP NAK on an address request when it otherwise shouldn't.
All that aside, it's a great little box. It works well with my 802.11b card in the laptop and manages the wired stuff just fine. I can't comment on 802.11g because there aren't any cards with linux support out there (except maybe the minipci card in the wrt54g, but that's a binary driver).
I've gotten some interesting stuff to run on it, mainly some simple home automation stuff for a pervasive computing environment that was part of my research, but it's nice having everything together. Although, truthfully you're probably still better off with an EPIA board and a 256 meg stick of ram.
You mean when the bug count wraps from 2^31-1 to -2^31 then up to 0. 0 counts as a positive number because the sign bit is not set, thus we still have equal numbers of positive and negative numbers. By your math we'd have two more positive numbers than negative.
I see a lot of people saying that they steal the motherboard then they can crack it, which while possible isn't entirely true. If you would read the information about the board you'd see it's a hardware dongle that stores the key information. Thus, if you buy a new mobo with secureIDE and have the same dongle you'll be able to read the data. It's that simple.
So rather than destroying the motherboard, you just need to store the USB key somewhere other than where the computer is. Pretty straight forward. You can't take the hard drive to another secureIDE computer and have it work without the USB key.
Most RFID tags are passive and only emit signals when excited. So as long as there is nothing to excite the tags, you'll be fine. Also the RF from an RFID tag is orders of magnitude less than that of a cell phone.
Maybe something like xmule and emule would do the trick? They even have the feature where you can set up your web browser so a click begins to download a file over it.
Also, I believe that freenet allows the content to be pulled from multiple hosts too. This is because of how the data is chunked to prevent analysis based on the size of the file.
Of course, I suppose we could always go back to sharing files the original way. Just get small communities together and share files like that. Then again, that's not impervious either, as was shown with the DoJ busts of large warez groups last year. Maybe this is why WASTE had AOL so scared. Then again, I'm paranoid.
Also note, this isn't just file sharing that the law addresses:
In addition, those who provide false information when registering a domain name could also be charged with a federal offense.
This makes me wonder about places like godaddy that give you the option to make your domain name private. One has to wonder how long before Ashcroft decides that anyone who uses such a service is guilty of a felony.
At this point in time I feel obligated to remind slashdot that Ashcroft did loose to a dead guy. Once again I guess it's all Missouri's fault.
If pay close attention to the TV, you'll notice that there is brief black screen between the cut out from the show and the commercial. Most systems pick those up.
Your other option is too look at the code in MythTV and see how that does it. Now if only there was an option to cut out the useless banter in Jeopardy I would be in heaven.
Thankfully, once your packets get routed onto the backbone, you shouldn't have to worry about this. Why? Because your data is packetized, and the internet is best effort. That means that your packets may travel over several sources to get to the destination. Thus, it would be possible to fragment your packets locally to a very high degree so that a router in the backbone would never be able to tell what protocol is in use because the packets would be sent via various hosts. So, the MPAA can't go an install this in the backbone of the net to stop your l33t divx pirating.
On a local network, well that's another story. There will always be ways around stuff like this though. It wouldn't be hard to get another link (cellphone?) and send just enough packets over that to make stuff confusing.
So you're probably wondering why it is slashdotted...well probably not, but if you were. The site is served over a terrestrial wireless broadband from Sprint Broadband Direct with a maximum uplink of 15k/s. Furthermore the server, is circa 1997 AMD-K6/200 with 96 megs of ram.
So this finally answers the question of "can slashdot destroy a low grade consumer broadband connection?". Incidentally, the load on the server is still around 0.4. I think it peaked out around 0.8.
Sigh...slashdot needs a distributed automated mirroring service.
And if you're wondering, I did the article on my weblog because people on deadly were asking about how to do it. On guy even thought they had a sound device (remember the speech thing?) connected to the parallel port doing it.
Part of the reason why Apple may be doing this is that Vivendi is basically bankrupt and they have been looking to sell off some of their less profitable assets, among them, Universal Music. Being as Vivendi is in that situation, Apple can probably put down a lower bid than they would have to buy the company otherwise.
You can also find more information at Google News if you don't want to register and don't want to read a machine translation.
I've seen a ton of questions asking what Grid computing is. The most common one being how does it differ from parallel/distributed computing?
First off, I highly suggest reading The anatomy of the Grid by Ian Foster et. al. It provides a pretty good overview into this whole Grid thing.
But for the lazy, here's a little bit. The Grid is more than parallel computing. Typically with parallel/distributed computing the problem or resources are static or both. Grid allows both of these to change. In a nutshell, Grid computing means not having to worry about where the compute resources are. Just start a calculation and it gets done. Just like how you don't worry where your power comes from, you just plug in.
The core of the Grid is virtual organizations. Under a VO, I could get together with a few friends and pool our resources. We could set up a registry and some factories (I'm speaking OGSA here, but whatever) and create some certificates. Then, we could submit jobs to the Grid and not have to worry about the resources that they're running on.
GSI provides some really nifty security features (based on X.509 I believe). Basically you provide a mapping that allows other authorized users to run commands on your computer. When you're on the Grid you create a proxy for your certificate that is passed to the process that you run on this other computer. Then if that computer needs more resources, it can create another proxy certificate and delegate to another server.
Also, Grid computing is more than just computing. There is data storage and instrumentation sharing also. You might want to check out PPDG, GriPhyN and TeraGrid for examples of these systems.
If you're interested in playing with the GRID, you can go download Globus Toolkit 3.0 Alpha or the Java CoG Kit which is a pure Java implementation of Globus 2.x (it's much easier to install than the regular Globus 2.2.x).
Anyone who thinks that their encryption is unbreakable should think about the rubber hose and pay off the janitor methods of breaking encryption. Typically it's far cheaper to pay someone to give up the secret than it is to even power the computers to do it.
Also, I didn't see where it says it's unbreakable (at least in those words). I see a mention of some virtual matrix encryption which generates a million bit key, but even that is still breakable.
With regards to section 501, I can see it being only a matter of time until someone comes along and says that if you're enlisted in the armed services, you're giving support to terrorists (or they'll say it can be inferred from your conduct). And then poof! Away goes your citizenship. How much longer until we live in a world like that starship troopers where the easiest way to get citizenship is to enlist in the armed services?
These rights are only extended to citizens of the United States. Non-citizens are basically at the government's pleasure. There are no guarantees in the Constitution that apply to non-citizens.
Maybe you should explain that to Jose Padilla and why he is being held in violation of the 5th amendment. I'm not saying that's he's not a traitor or a terrorist, but he still is US citizen. For those of you who don't know who Jose Padilla is, you should see this blurb at the BBC or chargepadilla.org for more information.
Open your eyes a bit and take a look around before engaging in discourse, you'll find it most enlightening.
The fact is, that unless your SPAM corpus and HAM corpus are both under 32k, this won't work. Gzip is fast because it only has a 32k sliding window, meaning that it only searches for like strings in a 32k window around what you're currently compressing. Hate to break it to you, but 32k is not enough for a corpus. I think Bzip2 uses something larger (900k?), but I forget what it is.
I'll be happy with spam assassin until I get CRM114 (and mailfilter) trained and working.
Slashdot Mirror
You're probably thinking of the Canopus Pure 3D. It was good card and had TV out well before it was a standard feature. I remember hooking Quake ][ up to the big screen in the fraternity house and watching people ogle over it. Also, it was a 2MB framebuffer (like all Voodoo I cards) and a 4MB texture buffer.
I've also noticed that there is another interesting phenomenon related to this, that is the spamming of online status pages. I used to have a web page where people could go and look at statistics of my site (powered by AWStats). However, I started to get a lot of false requests with referrers from various spam farm sites. The thought that these people had was if you spammed the sites that made their referrer logs available then people would look and see how they linked, when in fact they didn't. It was fairly easy to stop, I just blackholed all of China, Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore at my router, but it shouldn't be the preferred method.
This is essentialy a patent that MS can't really enforce, at least not to take out AIM or ICQ. The reason? AOL owns the patent on instant messaging. I don't see what good an instant messaging typing indicator is if you can't do instant messaging in the first place.
Ah yes, the patent system sucks.
According to my version of convert, it does. Running:
convert lion.svg lion.png
eog lion.png
Pops up eye of gnome with the png version the cute little lion cub. No problems at all. I have had some problems with a few graphics in the past, but most seem to work fine. Also, for most SVGs PNG should be the preferred raster format to convert them as they are usually more solid colors than a photo, which is what JPEG is great for. This is done with the version of ImageMagick that ships with RedHat 9 (or maybe was updated with freshrpms), 5.4.7-10.
I don't want to think that I'm the only reason for this happening, but I'd like to think I played a small role. I'm from Minnesota and try to follow my elected representatives in Washington. When Senator Coleman joined the senate in January of 2003, I saw that he was appointed as chairman of the Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations. I began to write and call him (quite often at that). I'd imagine that hundreds of others people (both Minnesotan and otherwise) did the same thing. Believe it or not, American Government does work and in early August Senator Coleman announced he was going to start investigations into this stuff.
Then when EFF sent out an email in August asking people to send thanks to the Senator, I was one of the first in line to do it, hopefully this will help to ensure that Senator Coleman continues to be receptive.
Of course, if you don't want to go through the effort you can either send money to the EFF or just deal with the fact that corporations own America.
This is not an example of the Grid Computing (ala Globus) that we've been hearing about. This is another example of laying out processor cores on a chip. So a better thing would be to compare this to the ideas for the UltraSPARC V and IBM BlueGene computers where multiple processing cores are put on one chip and then arranged in a grid (think physical grid) architecture.
Grid Computing deals with computation and information sharing seemlessy across a network, they used to always say like how the power grid works. Which in reality is about right as it doesn't always work as advertised.
Anyway, Grid Computing is mainly concerned with software to allow multiple computers to work together seemlessly. This includes registry services, single sign of, information transfer, etc.
This appears to be the rather fortunate result of a phenomenon called "Buzzword collision", where two different projects pick the same buzzword in hopes to really confuse people who don't read the articles and trick PHBs into thinking that each project is ueberimportant.
Nice to see you can copy stuff from other sites. Moderators, please think stuff when you moderate, don't moderate high because it's a long comment. This is a lengthy comment posted 37 minutes after the article went live (by an AC none the less). It's lengthy, covers many topics and is linkified, also by my count it's 2856 words. That means the person had to have written this at a rate of about 106 words a minute. While some on the community can type that fast when working from a stream of consciousness or transcribing, it's REALLY hard to do for extended periods, especially when developing new thoughts.
Wouldn't they have been able to challenge this lawsuit with a great deal of ease by pointing out that the RIAA illegally collected information about the online habits of someone under 13? If I'm correct the Child Online Protection Act prohibits collection of information about online behavior for those under 13 without parental consent.
Actually, nope it isn't. The one that I'm thinking of is by millenium park, a little over a mile south of that one. Come think of it, I think I've seen that one too.
There used to be one on Michigan avenue (I think around Adams) on the northwest corner in Chicago. However, when they redid the street, they just sorta covered up some of it. I believe you can still see about 1/2 of it. I never bothered reading it, I thought it was one of those weird art things that the city tends to do from time to time.
I own one of these little guys and I must say it's a neat little box. However, please be aware of the following issues that you might run into with it:
1) it runs quite hot. make sure it gets plenty of air. we had ours sitting on the carpet with the DSL modem on top and it would frequently over heat. Moving the modem off and setting the wrt54g on a board seemed to fix this.
2) it requires that you have good wiring. you may be shocked to know this, but if you live in an old house (like many college students) your wiring has a good chance of being miswired. The wrt54g will not work with wiring faults (even though many devices work just fine). the solution is to put a good surge protector or UPS between the device and the outlet. this seems to fix everything.
3) the dhcp implementation is a little funky and sometimes seems to reply with a DHCP NAK on an address request when it otherwise shouldn't.
All that aside, it's a great little box. It works well with my 802.11b card in the laptop and manages the wired stuff just fine. I can't comment on 802.11g because there aren't any cards with linux support out there (except maybe the minipci card in the wrt54g, but that's a binary driver).
I've gotten some interesting stuff to run on it, mainly some simple home automation stuff for a pervasive computing environment that was part of my research, but it's nice having everything together. Although, truthfully you're probably still better off with an EPIA board and a 256 meg stick of ram.
You mean when the bug count wraps from 2^31-1 to -2^31 then up to 0. 0 counts as a positive number because the sign bit is not set, thus we still have equal numbers of positive and negative numbers. By your math we'd have two more positive numbers than negative.
I see a lot of people saying that they steal the motherboard then they can crack it, which while possible isn't entirely true. If you would read the information about the board you'd see it's a hardware dongle that stores the key information. Thus, if you buy a new mobo with secureIDE and have the same dongle you'll be able to read the data. It's that simple.
So rather than destroying the motherboard, you just need to store the USB key somewhere other than where the computer is. Pretty straight forward. You can't take the hard drive to another secureIDE computer and have it work without the USB key.
Most RFID tags are passive and only emit signals when excited. So as long as there is nothing to excite the tags, you'll be fine. Also the RF from an RFID tag is orders of magnitude less than that of a cell phone.
Maybe something like xmule and emule would do the trick? They even have the feature where you can set up your web browser so a click begins to download a file over it.
Also, I believe that freenet allows the content to be pulled from multiple hosts too. This is because of how the data is chunked to prevent analysis based on the size of the file.
Of course, I suppose we could always go back to sharing files the original way. Just get small communities together and share files like that. Then again, that's not impervious either, as was shown with the DoJ busts of large warez groups last year. Maybe this is why WASTE had AOL so scared. Then again, I'm paranoid.
At this point in time I feel obligated to remind slashdot that Ashcroft did loose to a dead guy. Once again I guess it's all Missouri's fault.
If pay close attention to the TV, you'll notice that there is brief black screen between the cut out from the show and the commercial. Most systems pick those up.
Your other option is too look at the code in MythTV and see how that does it. Now if only there was an option to cut out the useless banter in Jeopardy I would be in heaven.
Thankfully, once your packets get routed onto the backbone, you shouldn't have to worry about this. Why? Because your data is packetized, and the internet is best effort. That means that your packets may travel over several sources to get to the destination. Thus, it would be possible to fragment your packets locally to a very high degree so that a router in the backbone would never be able to tell what protocol is in use because the packets would be sent via various hosts. So, the MPAA can't go an install this in the backbone of the net to stop your l33t divx pirating.
On a local network, well that's another story. There will always be ways around stuff like this though. It wouldn't be hard to get another link (cellphone?) and send just enough packets over that to make stuff confusing.
So you're probably wondering why it is slashdotted...well probably not, but if you were. The site is served over a terrestrial wireless broadband from Sprint Broadband Direct with a maximum uplink of 15k/s. Furthermore the server, is circa 1997 AMD-K6/200 with 96 megs of ram.
So this finally answers the question of "can slashdot destroy a low grade consumer broadband connection?". Incidentally, the load on the server is still around 0.4. I think it peaked out around 0.8.
Sigh...slashdot needs a distributed automated mirroring service.
And if you're wondering, I did the article on my weblog because people on deadly were asking about how to do it. On guy even thought they had a sound device (remember the speech thing?) connected to the parallel port doing it.
Part of the reason why Apple may be doing this is that Vivendi is basically bankrupt and they have been looking to sell off some of their less profitable assets, among them, Universal Music. Being as Vivendi is in that situation, Apple can probably put down a lower bid than they would have to buy the company otherwise.
You can also find more information at Google News if you don't want to register and don't want to read a machine translation.
I've seen a ton of questions asking what Grid computing is. The most common one being how does it differ from parallel/distributed computing?
First off, I highly suggest reading The anatomy of the Grid by Ian Foster et. al. It provides a pretty good overview into this whole Grid thing.
But for the lazy, here's a little bit. The Grid is more than parallel computing. Typically with parallel/distributed computing the problem or resources are static or both. Grid allows both of these to change. In a nutshell, Grid computing means not having to worry about where the compute resources are. Just start a calculation and it gets done. Just like how you don't worry where your power comes from, you just plug in.
The core of the Grid is virtual organizations. Under a VO, I could get together with a few friends and pool our resources. We could set up a registry and some factories (I'm speaking OGSA here, but whatever) and create some certificates. Then, we could submit jobs to the Grid and not have to worry about the resources that they're running on.
GSI provides some really nifty security features (based on X.509 I believe). Basically you provide a mapping that allows other authorized users to run commands on your computer. When you're on the Grid you create a proxy for your certificate that is passed to the process that you run on this other computer. Then if that computer needs more resources, it can create another proxy certificate and delegate to another server.
Also, Grid computing is more than just computing. There is data storage and instrumentation sharing also. You might want to check out PPDG, GriPhyN and TeraGrid for examples of these systems.
If you're interested in playing with the GRID, you can go download Globus Toolkit 3.0 Alpha or the Java CoG Kit which is a pure Java implementation of Globus 2.x (it's much easier to install than the regular Globus 2.2.x).
Anyone who thinks that their encryption is unbreakable should think about the rubber hose and pay off the janitor methods of breaking encryption. Typically it's far cheaper to pay someone to give up the secret than it is to even power the computers to do it.
Also, I didn't see where it says it's unbreakable (at least in those words). I see a mention of some virtual matrix encryption which generates a million bit key, but even that is still breakable.
With regards to section 501, I can see it being only a matter of time until someone comes along and says that if you're enlisted in the armed services, you're giving support to terrorists (or they'll say it can be inferred from your conduct). And then poof! Away goes your citizenship. How much longer until we live in a world like that starship troopers where the easiest way to get citizenship is to enlist in the armed services?
These rights are only extended to citizens of the United States. Non-citizens are basically at the government's pleasure. There are no guarantees in the Constitution that apply to non-citizens.
Maybe you should explain that to Jose Padilla and why he is being held in violation of the 5th amendment. I'm not saying that's he's not a traitor or a terrorist, but he still is US citizen. For those of you who don't know who Jose Padilla is, you should see this blurb at the BBC or chargepadilla.org for more information.
Open your eyes a bit and take a look around before engaging in discourse, you'll find it most enlightening.
Oh the sweet irony...
The fact is, that unless your SPAM corpus and HAM corpus are both under 32k, this won't work. Gzip is fast because it only has a 32k sliding window, meaning that it only searches for like strings in a 32k window around what you're currently compressing. Hate to break it to you, but 32k is not enough for a corpus. I think Bzip2 uses something larger (900k?), but I forget what it is.
I'll be happy with spam assassin until I get CRM114 (and mailfilter) trained and working.