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this ipod thing seems a little silly, given that they are selling phatboxes as dealer installed options on vw's and audis. (and yes, it runs linux and plays ogg vorbis)
i remember metalstorm, it was a pretty good nes game. your weapon was the m308 gunner, however, and had nothing to do with gauss guns (it did have and antigravity unit, though).
The year is 2501, and the dawning of a new century has brought mankind to the brink of disaster. The powerful LaserGun on the planet Pluto's battle station "Cyberg" is wreaking havoc. It was originally designed to protect Earth from hostile aliens, but, due to a computer malfunction, is systematically destroying all the planets in the Solar System! Most recently the Earth Nation watched helplessly as Neptune exploded.
The system's self-destruct device could stop the LaserGun, but it has mysteriously jammed and is aimed at Earth. Even if the device can be manually activated, there is still only a slim chance that Earth can be saved. Your mission is to enter Cyberg using the most sophisticated weaponry available, the M-308 Gunner, and unlock that self-destruct device!
(Picture of the M-308 Gunner) M-308 Gunner Height: 9 feet Weight: 2100 lbs. Material: Geopolyum Alloy Generator Power: 1300 KW Special Function: Gravity Flip
I think it is about time we had a frank discussion about grammar. I know we've all been avoiding this for quite a while, but the problem has really gotten out of hand. Let us consider the original story.
Softbank, in Japan, has built a gigabit ethernet network to replace DSL over ATM, which costs peanuts to maintain and run.
This sentence, besides abusing the word "which" (should be "that"), goes on to imply that an entity named "Softbank" has created a gigabit ethernet network, that is replacing the existing DSL, and that the DSL network costs "peanuts" (slang, but we shall drop the matter). What the original poster likely meant was that the new network costs "peanuts". A proper version of the sentence follows:
In Japan, Softbank has build a gigabit ethernet network that costs peanuts to maintain and run, to replace DSL over ATM.
The travesty continues:
For $21 a month, Japanese users get 12Mb/sec, free VoIP (without quality loss) calls to users on the same network, (3c/min to New York), and DVD-quality movies.
This sentence is simply a disaster. One cannot start a sentence with "for". If this alone was forgiveable, the comma after "month" delineates the meaning of the sentence. And for some reason, the author chose the parenthsize one of the benefits the users may get.
Japanese users, for $21 per month, get 12Mb/sec, free VoIP calls to users on the same network (with no quality loss), 3 cents per minute to New York, and DVD-quality movies.
Finally, the poster concludes with the following train wreck of a sentence:
The company needs users to stay with the service for 15 months to break even, given that it is giving modems away for free.
Here, the implication is that if the users do not stay with the service for 15 months, the users will not break even. Also noteworth is the phrase 'for free'. If the company is giving something "for" something else (in effect, exchanging it), it cannot accept "free" in return. Again, "break even" is slang, but we will leave it be.
Due to the fact that the company is giving away free modems, it needs the users to stay with the service for 15 months so that the company can break even.
Remember, Slashdot, grammar is what separates us from the animals. Please post responsibly.
well, let's ask, who is sharing? a lot of those who are sharing are college students. the riaa made the "we're suing everyone" claim just as most college students go on spring break. many people that were sharing over their dorm's high speed internet connection are home now, stuck with their parents' dialup accounts. file sharing does historically decline in the (northern hemisphere) summer months, so a decline in file sharing would not be at all unexpected.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes
however, while the immediate bandwidth of a station wagon filled with tapes may be enormous, the overall bandwidth is quite poor. this is because of the slow write/read rates of the tape drive, and the slow overall speed of the station wagon. i can transfer 3 gigs from my work computer to my home machine faster than the time it would take me to write the 3 gigs to tape, drive it there, and read it back from tape (and my drive is only 15 minutes). if i lived 5000 miles away, my tape bandwidth would be considerably worse, while my internet bandwidth would be virtually unchanged.
since this statement was made, we have reached the point where internet bandwidth has exceeded the "vehicle full of tapes". now, this one might be good for a few more years:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of an sr71 full of netapps
in the hopes of making linux more user friendly, we will shortly be releasing the "iLin" linux distribution. we've done a little renaming of commands that are confusing to some users: 'ls' is now "ListTheFilesInThisFolder" (note that the term 'directory' has been deprecated in favor of the more friendly 'folder'). 'cd' is "ChangeFolder" 'cp' is "CopyFiles" 'mv' is "PutFilesInADifferentFolder" (we felt that the name "Move" was not immediately obvious). 'rm' is "Recycle" 'cat' is "MakeScreenScrollReallyFast" 'mkfs' is "PremanentlyDeleteAllMyFiles" 'vi' is now "pico" 'emacs' is now "KOffice" 'netscape' is now "Internet"
also, a few other changes that you might notice: your password is alway "password" and can not be changed, your hostname is "MyComputer", and the 'root' account is no longer available.
bloatware. my company standardized on "more/var/spool/mail/$USER" for reading mail. sending mail is currently unsupported.
on systems i administer, mutt is symlinked to "more". pine is a shellscript that: 1) generates an alert log. 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 10mb 3) runs "more"
actually, a company i used to work for created linux-based CE devices. however, the userland was entirely BSD derived (mostly in crunched binaries) and proprietary closed source software. as with most other CE's, we found little use for the GNU tools in the device itself (obviously we used the gnu development toolchain).
every once in a while, some jackass tried to tell us that we're not using "linux", we're using "GNU/Linux". we'd correct him, we use "BSD/Linux".
though, reading some openbsd mailing lists, i get the following:
the openssh maintainers would like to have full kerberos support in openssh. however, the mit kerberos code is full of bugs and poorly maintained. the openbsd and openssh developers are sick of dealing with it, and are trying to minimize use of kerberos in the system. kerberos 4 has been pulled out of openssh and openbsd for the above reasons.
microsoft could start by allowing the *option* of disabling the viewing of html email in outlook and outlook express. linked images are used by spammers to verify if an account is active and if an email is being viewed. not to mention the huge-font headlines found in your average spam message and/or images (sometimes not-so-safe for work). but microsoft does not want to give users this option. why?
historically, the music industry (as well as other low-cost entertainment), seem to do as-well or better in times of recession. this is mostly due to the fact that people feel that while they can't go out and buy big-ticket items, they can spend the 15 bucks on themselves every once in a while and buy a cd (or see a movie). that is, buying cheap entertainment becomes a substitute for buying expensive entertainment.
during the early 90's (y'know, back when there was a recession, bush was in office, and we were fighing the iraqi's), the music business boomed. they were still selling cd's in 'long boxes' back then, and the players were pretty expensive, but the sales were great. the declines in music sales started during the most booming economic times (the late 90's). the fact that it's carrying over to today could be an indication that something is very different this time around (be it bad music, p2p, indie labels, whatever).
ah, but you're missing several points of the embedded system design.
the layered microkernel system is there to make sure the os never crashes. how does it do this better than wince or linux? well, since the drivers are out of "kernel space", even if one crashes, it will not bring down the whole os. in linux, if you yank out [device of your choice] while the system is using it, you may very well get a kernel panic. in qnx, the driver crashes, and the os moves on (maybe reloades it, maybe sends a warning to someone).
the second part that you're missing is that in many super-tight embedded systems, the driver IS the application. obviously this is not true for your palm or digital camera, but for software in a pacemaker or in a car brake management system, there is no "app".
and finally, if you've ever seen linux crash or wince bluescreen, for whatever reason, consider that in some places, that is just *not acceptable*. that is the difference, and that is why qnx and vxworks and psos and friends exist.
i saw this movie just to see pictures of the (yet-unreleased) super mario brothers 3. dude, that was probably the most anticipated game of my entire life (and amazingly, it didn't disappoint. still up there among my favorite games ever).
btw, the powerglove was a piece of crap. i think i still have mine in a closet somewhere. completely unuseable.
well, icq and aim actually use the same protocol nowadays. the crappy original icq system was dumped (far too unreliable). they both connect to the same servers. the only difference is if your user name is numerical, you are an icq user, and if it has characters, you are an aim user. bringing these networks together has already been silently accomplished, aol is now just removing the artificial barrier to communication between them.
the problem with your solution is that the dark parts of the image would be mirrors instead of dark (so you'd be seeing yourself). not to mention the glare effects your get from bright objects in your room.
i hope this does not break compatibility with the lossy zip (lzip) compression format.
in other compression news, i just upgraded my system from dos 6.2 to dos 6.22, so i can test the theory of whether you can gain infinite storage space from your harddrive if you 'doublespace' it repeatedly. wish me luck.
so wait, i'm confused. we're all happy now that they got busted for piracy(?). they deserve it because they sued some dude who stole their code. but the author says "supposedly" in reference to "jacking company source code". is he implying that no theft occured, and therefore these guys were suing for no reason, and that's why we're on the side of the BSA for today? or are we just taking a stance against software piracy? or does what go around come around? what does "unethically ethically hacking" mean, anyway? were they white hat hackers using pirated software? and where does the pun on "premier hack shops" come in? they're "hackers" (in the bad sense of the word, even if they did whitehat work) and the story involves "hacking". no wait, it involves software piracy. perhaps they were hacking using a pirated version of adobe premier. i'm not sure how that would work, but then the pun would make sense. but then, who's foot is in who's mouth? i think it's foundstone. but i haven't seen them say anything that was proven embarrasing as to gain the "foot in mouth" designation. maybe i haven't been following the saga of this company, but the context of the post certainly does not imply any foot-in-mouth action going on.
if you were my employee, and you wasted your time writing 'md5deep', you'd be fired. this is a 5 minutes shell script.
md5deep, reimplemented in shell, for your benefit. not tested, i'm sure there are some bugs. yes, it could use refinement, but this is a one minute job.
recursion: $ find . -type f | xargs md5sum
time estimation: #on my machine i get about 40 megs per second #using md5sum (openssl is faster) echo "`du -sk | cut -f1` / 40000" | bc
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this ipod thing seems a little silly, given that they are selling phatboxes as dealer installed options on vw's and audis. (and yes, it runs linux and plays ogg vorbis)
unofficial ogg for the ipod is found here
1. bugs in windows code
2. linux
3. iis worms
4. os/2
5. sherman antitrust act
i remember metalstorm, it was a pretty good nes game. your weapon was the m308 gunner, however, and had nothing to do with gauss guns (it did have and antigravity unit, though).
here is a graphic of the original box:
http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/metalstorm-b.jpg
here is the story line, right from the manual:
STORY
The year is 2501, and the dawning of a new century has brought mankind to the
brink of disaster. The powerful LaserGun on the planet Pluto's battle station
"Cyberg" is wreaking havoc. It was originally designed to protect Earth from
hostile aliens, but, due to a computer malfunction, is systematically
destroying all the planets in the Solar System! Most recently the Earth Nation
watched helplessly as Neptune exploded.
The system's self-destruct device could stop the LaserGun, but it has
mysteriously jammed and is aimed at Earth. Even if the device can be manually
activated, there is still only a slim chance that Earth can be saved. Your
mission is to enter Cyberg using the most sophisticated weaponry available, the
M-308 Gunner, and unlock that self-destruct device!
(Picture of the M-308 Gunner)
M-308 Gunner
Height: 9 feet
Weight: 2100 lbs.
Material: Geopolyum Alloy
Generator Power: 1300 KW
Special Function: Gravity Flip
I think it is about time we had a frank discussion about grammar. I know we've all been avoiding this for quite a while, but the problem has really gotten out of hand. Let us consider the original story.
Softbank, in Japan, has built a gigabit ethernet network to replace DSL over ATM, which costs peanuts to maintain and run.
This sentence, besides abusing the word "which" (should be "that"), goes on to imply that an entity named "Softbank" has created a gigabit ethernet network, that is replacing the existing DSL, and that the DSL network costs "peanuts" (slang, but we shall drop the matter). What the original poster likely meant was that the new network costs "peanuts". A proper version of the sentence follows:
In Japan, Softbank has build a gigabit ethernet network that costs peanuts to maintain and run, to replace DSL over ATM.
The travesty continues:
For $21 a month, Japanese users get 12Mb/sec, free VoIP (without quality loss) calls to users on the same network, (3c/min to New York), and DVD-quality movies.
This sentence is simply a disaster. One cannot start a sentence with "for". If this alone was forgiveable, the comma after "month" delineates the meaning of the sentence. And for some reason, the author chose the parenthsize one of the benefits the users may get.
Japanese users, for $21 per month, get 12Mb/sec, free VoIP calls to users on the same network (with no quality loss), 3 cents per minute to New York, and DVD-quality movies.
Finally, the poster concludes with the following train wreck of a sentence:
The company needs users to stay with the service for 15 months to break even, given that it is giving modems away for free.
Here, the implication is that if the users do not stay with the service for 15 months, the users will not break even. Also noteworth is the phrase 'for free'. If the company is giving something "for" something else (in effect, exchanging it), it cannot accept "free" in return. Again, "break even" is slang, but we will leave it be.
Due to the fact that the company is giving away free modems, it needs the users to stay with the service for 15 months so that the company can break even.
Remember, Slashdot, grammar is what separates us from the animals. Please post responsibly.
__joe_b (not posting anon, for the hell of it)
well, let's ask, who is sharing?
a lot of those who are sharing are college students. the riaa made the "we're suing everyone" claim just as most college students go on spring break. many people that were sharing over their dorm's high speed internet connection are home now, stuck with their parents' dialup accounts. file sharing does historically decline in the (northern hemisphere) summer months, so a decline in file sharing would not be at all unexpected.
i believe your attribution is correct.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes
however, while the immediate bandwidth of a station wagon filled with tapes may be enormous, the overall bandwidth is quite poor. this is because of the slow write/read rates of the tape drive, and the slow overall speed of the station wagon. i can transfer 3 gigs from my work computer to my home machine faster than the time it would take me to write the 3 gigs to tape, drive it there, and read it back from tape (and my drive is only 15 minutes). if i lived 5000 miles away, my tape bandwidth would be considerably worse, while my internet bandwidth would be virtually unchanged.
since this statement was made, we have reached the point where internet bandwidth has exceeded the "vehicle full of tapes". now, this one might be good for a few more years:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of an sr71 full of netapps
in the hopes of making linux more user friendly, we will shortly be releasing the "iLin" linux distribution. we've done a little renaming of commands that are confusing to some users:
'ls' is now "ListTheFilesInThisFolder" (note that the term 'directory' has been deprecated in favor of the more friendly 'folder').
'cd' is "ChangeFolder"
'cp' is "CopyFiles"
'mv' is "PutFilesInADifferentFolder" (we felt that the name "Move" was not immediately obvious).
'rm' is "Recycle"
'cat' is "MakeScreenScrollReallyFast"
'mkfs' is "PremanentlyDeleteAllMyFiles"
'vi' is now "pico"
'emacs' is now "KOffice"
'netscape' is now "Internet"
also, a few other changes that you might notice:
your password is alway "password" and can not be changed, your hostname is "MyComputer", and the 'root' account is no longer available.
bloatware. my company standardized on "more /var/spool/mail/$USER" for reading mail. sending mail is currently unsupported.
on systems i administer, mutt is symlinked to "more".
pine is a shellscript that:
1) generates an alert log.
2) reduces the user's disk quota by 10mb
3) runs "more"
more. what more could you want?
actually, a company i used to work for created linux-based CE devices. however, the userland was entirely BSD derived (mostly in crunched binaries) and proprietary closed source software. as with most other CE's, we found little use for the GNU tools in the device itself (obviously we used the gnu development toolchain).
every once in a while, some jackass tried to tell us that we're not using "linux", we're using "GNU/Linux". we'd correct him, we use "BSD/Linux".
seems like the story submitter jumped the gun a bit. from http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html
Add kerberos-over-ssh2 support to ssh(1).
though, reading some openbsd mailing lists, i get the following:
the openssh maintainers would like to have full kerberos support in openssh. however, the mit kerberos code is full of bugs and poorly maintained. the openbsd and openssh developers are sick of dealing with it, and are trying to minimize use of kerberos in the system.
kerberos 4 has been pulled out of openssh and openbsd for the above reasons.
you forget where you are, sir.
this is slashdot. consider yourself lucky that "the" is spelled correctly.
microsoft could start by allowing the *option* of disabling the viewing of html email in outlook and outlook express. linked images are used by spammers to verify if an account is active and if an email is being viewed. not to mention the huge-font headlines found in your average spam message and/or images (sometimes not-so-safe for work).
but microsoft does not want to give users this option. why?
strangely, this is untrue.
historically, the music industry (as well as other low-cost entertainment), seem to do as-well or better in times of recession. this is mostly due to the fact that people feel that while they can't go out and buy big-ticket items, they can spend the 15 bucks on themselves every once in a while and buy a cd (or see a movie). that is, buying cheap entertainment becomes a substitute for buying expensive entertainment.
during the early 90's (y'know, back when there was a recession, bush was in office, and we were fighing the iraqi's), the music business boomed. they were still selling cd's in 'long boxes' back then, and the players were pretty expensive, but the sales were great. the declines in music sales started during the most booming economic times (the late 90's). the fact that it's carrying over to today could be an indication that something is very different this time around (be it bad music, p2p, indie labels, whatever).
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ah, but you're missing several points of the embedded system design.
the layered microkernel system is there to make sure the os never crashes. how does it do this better than wince or linux? well, since the drivers are out of "kernel space", even if one crashes, it will not bring down the whole os. in linux, if you yank out [device of your choice] while the system is using it, you may very well get a kernel panic. in qnx, the driver crashes, and the os moves on (maybe reloades it, maybe sends a warning to someone).
the second part that you're missing is that in many super-tight embedded systems, the driver IS the application. obviously this is not true for your palm or digital camera, but for software in a pacemaker or in a car brake management system, there is no "app".
and finally, if you've ever seen linux crash or wince bluescreen, for whatever reason, consider that in some places, that is just *not acceptable*. that is the difference, and that is why qnx and vxworks and psos and friends exist.
i saw this movie just to see pictures of the (yet-unreleased) super mario brothers 3. dude, that was probably the most anticipated game of my entire life (and amazingly, it didn't disappoint. still up there among my favorite games ever).
btw, the powerglove was a piece of crap. i think i still have mine in a closet somewhere. completely unuseable.
the glory days are over. sorry.
void main() { for( ; ; ) ; }
well, icq and aim actually use the same protocol nowadays. the crappy original icq system was dumped (far too unreliable). they both connect to the same servers. the only difference is if your user name is numerical, you are an icq user, and if it has characters, you are an aim user. bringing these networks together has already been silently accomplished, aol is now just removing the artificial barrier to communication between them.
[joe@circe ~]$ uname -r
86.9.14
[joe@circe ~]$
mine's better, i win.
the problem with your solution is that the dark parts of the image would be mirrors instead of dark (so you'd be seeing yourself). not to mention the glare effects your get from bright objects in your room.
i hope this does not break compatibility with the lossy zip (lzip) compression format.
in other compression news, i just upgraded my system from dos 6.2 to dos 6.22, so i can test the theory of whether you can gain infinite storage space from your harddrive if you 'doublespace' it repeatedly. wish me luck.
eat more chicken!
so wait, i'm confused.
we're all happy now that they got busted for piracy(?). they deserve it because they sued some dude who stole their code. but the author says "supposedly" in reference to "jacking company source code". is he implying that no theft occured, and therefore these guys were suing for no reason, and that's why we're on the side of the BSA for today? or are we just taking a stance against software piracy? or does what go around come around?
what does "unethically ethically hacking" mean, anyway? were they white hat hackers using pirated software? and where does the pun on "premier hack shops" come in? they're "hackers" (in the bad sense of the word, even if they did whitehat work) and the story involves "hacking". no wait, it involves software piracy. perhaps they were hacking using a pirated version of adobe premier. i'm not sure how that would work, but then the pun would make sense.
but then, who's foot is in who's mouth? i think it's foundstone. but i haven't seen them say anything that was proven embarrasing as to gain the "foot in mouth" designation. maybe i haven't been following the saga of this company, but the context of the post certainly does not imply any foot-in-mouth action going on.
anyone???
if you were my employee, and you wasted your time writing 'md5deep', you'd be fired. this is a 5 minutes shell script.
md5deep, reimplemented in shell, for your benefit. not tested, i'm sure there are some bugs. yes, it could use refinement, but this is a one minute job.
recursion:
$ find . -type f | xargs md5sum
time estimation:
#on my machine i get about 40 megs per second
#using md5sum (openssl is faster)
echo "`du -sk | cut -f1` / 40000" | bc