I've made slight improvements to the code. You might have hit it while I was copying the new version over.
It's been very entertaining watching the referer log and seeing all the places this has been linked from! I seem to be strangely popular with French-speaking sites for some reason, and quite a few people have been getting it via webmail url's.
I'm very dissapointed that I didn't make Fark though!
I totally can't remember, because I don't download many MP3's. I prefer to rip them from CD myself.
The hardest to find was "1970's Dictator Chic - Jacknife Lee" which is used in a rather good advert by out local phone monopoly. I wasn't going to buy a CD for just one song (assuming I could have found it for sale) and it wasn't in the library. So I waited probably more than a year, and eventually it turned up. Took me several tries before I could finally download it because the one person who had it kept logging off!
Yeah, fixed. Non-IE users can see a screenshot now, although the screenshot is already out of date. I fixed a problem with the charset and changed MS's Knowledge Base reference to the CERT vulnerability the page exploits (as a clickable link).
I got the idea after seeing (in my inbox) a phishing email for "http://westpack.com.au^A@{some.ip}"
Took me about an hour to edit the microsoft page for Mozilla-1.5 and get it working, and then hack the redirect so my homepage still validates. It took me 2 minutes from noticing Moz1.6 was out, editing the page with the new information, and posting the link here.
If Microsoft sends me a C&D, I'm not sure what I'll do. I don't really have any assets or income worth sueing for but I guess that's never stopped them before.
If you're running Internet Explorer, you can upgrade to Mozilla 1.6 here
(If you're not running IE, you won't see anything. My redirect exploits the ^A bug and uses IE conditional comments to make it look like an official MS page for downloading Mozilla)
In our case; Graphic Artists who don't understand how a compressed (5M TIFF) image can possibly be the same quality as the uncompressed (700M TIFF) their software wants to save by default.
Good idea. Get a bunch of those ultra-bright IR LED's, and incorporate them into a jacket. Not sure if the cameras are filtered either, I think most of them rely on a bit of IR so they get better vision at night.
OTOH, which is more valuable? "Not being identifiable" or "Not standing out like a lighthouse everywhere you go"? You can bet the mall rentacops are going to know why you show up as a brilliant glare on their CCD system..
A long time ago when I was a kid, we visited some friends who's house had an "L" shaped hallway, and they'd put a mirror at 45 degrees in the corner. I walked/ran right into it. Fortunately it was made out of safety glass!
Easy; if someone sends them a 977M file they want, they can choose to spend the next 6 days downloading it at 56kbps, or they can forward it (without needing to download it first) to a friend who has broadband and can download it in a half-hour.
If it's junk, they can choose to delete it.
IMAP allows this to some extent, but you can really only read the headers. Webmail lets you read the text/html parts and see how many megs the attachment is, before you start downloading it.
Yeah, I think you're right. I just went to ebay and looked up "mars watch" and this one was from NASA. But it doesn't say anything about actually being on Mars time.
I looked up "martian watch" first and got a full page of watches featuring a well-known cartoon character.:-)
On reflection; we SHOULD stay familiar with the time system we already have, even if we eventually colonise other planets and those individual colonies develop a system of time consistent with local patterns. They'll need a common time system for organising interplanetary communication, commerce, or whatever, and Earth time is an appropriate reminder of where we all came from.
What would be the advantage of that? Whatever system we pick, it's never going to match the daily rotation / lunar orbit / planetary orbit / whatever of every planet we eventually visit. We might as well stick with the time system we already have.
Arthur had a mechanical watch, I remember this distinctly. Random pulled it apart just before they caught a ride on the migrating {can't remember the name, Gnu-like beast attracted to pika birds} and was surrounded by springs and gears.
9/10ths of the data, huh? It doesn't work that way.
If you actually threw away 9/10ths of the data, you would have an MP3 that sounds like a third-generation tape recording.
Here's a simplified example; If I record a single tone to CD, (2 minutes long, 1275 Hz, -9dB both channels) it's going to be about 85 kbits of data. But I just described the tone well enough for you to reproduce it perfectly in much less than 1kbit. What was lost?
MP3 works partly the same way; it chooses what parts of the signal are 'important' and describes them mathematically, so although an mp3 file is 1/10th the size this does not automatically mean it contains only 1/10th of the information.
When you downsample 24 bit 96 khz (2304kpbs) uncompressed to 16 bit 44.1khz (706kbps) uncompressed, you are throwing away 2/3 of the data. The result _IS_ that a CD contains only a third of the information that was on the studio master. That's lossy!
particularly, I was wondering this; if both ends swap IP and port numbers via a third party such as the LWL server, they should be able to blindly send syn and and packets at each other as if they were setting up an outbound connection from both ends. The NAT devices (router, ISP firewall, whatever) both think they opened the connection and once it's open it's all just packets, right?
Well, I think I know.. the full-colour image I linked first is a composite of three scans, using the red, green and blue filters.
The second image was taken with just one filter because it's HUGE in space terms; limited bandwidth, limited power to transmit, and real science takes priority over making the PR photos look pretty. Scanning it with three-colour filters would have taken three times as long.
The planet IS mostly red, so that's what people expect to see. If you want a more honest representation strip out the colour and you'll have the black-and-white image that it actually is.
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The Onion started doing interstatial ads. I don't know if they still are, because I stopped going there as soon as it started.
:(
A pity, because other than that they were an excellent parody site.
I've made slight improvements to the code. You might have hit it while I was copying the new version over.
It's been very entertaining watching the referer log and seeing all the places this has been linked from! I seem to be strangely popular with French-speaking sites for some reason, and quite a few people have been getting it via webmail url's.
I'm very dissapointed that I didn't make Fark though!
I totally can't remember, because I don't download many MP3's. I prefer to rip them from CD myself.
The hardest to find was "1970's Dictator Chic - Jacknife Lee" which is used in a rather good advert by out local phone monopoly. I wasn't going to buy a CD for just one song (assuming I could have found it for sale) and it wasn't in the library. So I waited probably more than a year, and eventually it turned up. Took me several tries before I could finally download it because the one person who had it kept logging off!
Yeah, fixed. Non-IE users can see a screenshot now, although the screenshot is already out of date. I fixed a problem with the charset and changed MS's Knowledge Base reference to the CERT vulnerability the page exploits (as a clickable link).
:)
3500 hits since I posted it. I'm so proud
Below expectation. Needs to try harder
I got the idea after seeing (in my inbox) a phishing email for "http://westpack.com.au^A@{some.ip}"
Took me about an hour to edit the microsoft page for Mozilla-1.5 and get it working, and then hack the redirect so my homepage still validates. It took me 2 minutes from noticing Moz1.6 was out, editing the page with the new information, and posting the link here.
If Microsoft sends me a C&D, I'm not sure what I'll do. I don't really have any assets or income worth sueing for but I guess that's never stopped them before.
If you're running Internet Explorer, you can upgrade to Mozilla 1.6 here
(If you're not running IE, you won't see anything. My redirect exploits the ^A bug and uses IE conditional comments to make it look like an official MS page for downloading Mozilla)
You'd prefer this option?
In our case; Graphic Artists who don't understand how a compressed (5M TIFF) image can possibly be the same quality as the uncompressed (700M TIFF) their software wants to save by default.
Good idea. Get a bunch of those ultra-bright IR LED's, and incorporate them into a jacket. Not sure if the cameras are filtered either, I think most of them rely on a bit of IR so they get better vision at night.
OTOH, which is more valuable? "Not being identifiable" or "Not standing out like a lighthouse everywhere you go"? You can bet the mall rentacops are going to know why you show up as a brilliant glare on their CCD system..
Yeah, funny..
A long time ago when I was a kid, we visited some friends who's house had an "L" shaped hallway, and they'd put a mirror at 45 degrees in the corner. I walked/ran right into it. Fortunately it was made out of safety glass!
Easy; if someone sends them a 977M file they want, they can choose to spend the next 6 days downloading it at 56kbps, or they can forward it (without needing to download it first) to a friend who has broadband and can download it in a half-hour.
If it's junk, they can choose to delete it.
IMAP allows this to some extent, but you can really only read the headers. Webmail lets you read the text/html parts and see how many megs the attachment is, before you start downloading it.
Only marginally on topic, but I felt I had to post this;
-rw------- 1 root smmsp 1024859857 Nov 28 00:36 dfhAR0j0jj004819
-rw------- 1 root smmsp 1290067803 Nov 28 09:31 dfhAR9WRji005135
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Yeah, I think you're right. I just went to ebay and looked up "mars watch" and this one was from NASA. But it doesn't say anything about actually being on Mars time.
:-)
I looked up "martian watch" first and got a full page of watches featuring a well-known cartoon character.
Am I the only one who knows what those "pahse of the moon" watches are really for?!!
you win..
On reflection; we SHOULD stay familiar with the time system we already have, even if we eventually colonise other planets and those individual colonies develop a system of time consistent with local patterns. They'll need a common time system for organising interplanetary communication, commerce, or whatever, and Earth time is an appropriate reminder of where we all came from.
What would be the advantage of that? Whatever system we pick, it's never going to match the daily rotation / lunar orbit / planetary orbit / whatever of every planet we eventually visit. We might as well stick with the time system we already have.
Arthur had a mechanical watch, I remember this distinctly. Random pulled it apart just before they caught a ride on the migrating {can't remember the name, Gnu-like beast attracted to pika birds} and was surrounded by springs and gears.
I had a cheap watch 25 years ago that lost 20 minutes a day. Adjusting a perfectly good watch to lose 40 minutes a day is hardly impressive..
fuck I'm an idiot; 44.1k samples per second, 16 bits per sample, 2 channels, for two minutes would be about 1411 kbits, not 85!
9/10ths of the data, huh? It doesn't work that way.
If you actually threw away 9/10ths of the data, you would have an MP3 that sounds like a third-generation tape recording.
Here's a simplified example; If I record a single tone to CD, (2 minutes long, 1275 Hz, -9dB both channels) it's going to be about 85 kbits of data. But I just described the tone well enough for you to reproduce it perfectly in much less than 1kbit. What was lost?
MP3 works partly the same way; it chooses what parts of the signal are 'important' and describes them mathematically, so although an mp3 file is 1/10th the size this does not automatically mean it contains only 1/10th of the information.
When you downsample 24 bit 96 khz (2304kpbs) uncompressed to 16 bit 44.1khz (706kbps) uncompressed, you are throwing away 2/3 of the data. The result _IS_ that a CD contains only a third of the information that was on the studio master. That's lossy!
I was just wondering about that..
particularly, I was wondering this; if both ends swap IP and port numbers via a third party such as the LWL server, they should be able to blindly send syn and and packets at each other as if they were setting up an outbound connection from both ends. The NAT devices (router, ISP firewall, whatever) both think they opened the connection and once it's open it's all just packets, right?
Blue sky or not, I think you're missing the point.
The colour calibration target has a full range of colours on it, red, green and blue.
The exact same target in this image does not.
What's going on?
Well, I think I know.. the full-colour image I linked first is a composite of three scans, using the red, green and blue filters.
The second image was taken with just one filter because it's HUGE in space terms; limited bandwidth, limited power to transmit, and real science takes priority over making the PR photos look pretty. Scanning it with three-colour filters would have taken three times as long.
The planet IS mostly red, so that's what people expect to see. If you want a more honest representation strip out the colour and you'll have the black-and-white image that it actually is.