(rant) I have very bad experiences with SkypeOut. People tell me all the time they don't understand me etc. If the service has the same quality in the US giving it for free is still too expensive;)
I also don't like the digital jitter of a normal Skype connection. It seems I'm used to analog hissing too much;)
BTW: I'm on a 2mbit up/down leased line... so this should be not the problem. And I think I never got a mail back from CS. (/rant)
Try to identify the old drive and look up the power consumption and heating (the manufatuers have it on their web pages even for really olf drives - usually).
Verify that the new drive consumes less power and emits less energy, because the other way round your battery life decreases... (idle power consumption may be the most relevant)
I'm planning to use 2 large disks. e.g. 400GB. One in my desktop, the second one in my server.
Both disks get 2 partitions á 200GB. The first partition may be divided into more parts, but the last one is 200GB.
Then I'll use (intelligent == diff) rsync to copy the server partitons into directories of the last client partiton and vice versa.
It's very unlikely that 2 harddisks in 2 differnt computers die the same day - even at a lightning event - but then again you should use cheap extra fuses for that. (I had lightning and high voltage damage, power supplies and mainboards died, but no harddisk ever.)
If you need protection from fire, you have to place the second disk offsite, or use a firewire/usb 2.0 disk and store it somewhere else.
You can even use this in additon to the client/server 'mirror' described above.
I own a 12GB DDS3 streamer and worked with DLT, don't throw away the money. Harddisks are faster and the backups are easier to access. DVD's are too small...
The rsync version has a very huge advantage: I can easily access each *file* directly.
I'm using a such a backup with firewire disk and 'tar' for additional compression on another site. We had another 12GB streamer before (1000 EUR then, 550 EUR now, and 15 EUR per tape - now and then:) and it was always a mess until the streamer died after 3 years (weekly use).
Cross-mirror Advantages:
1) fast backups 2) relatively cheap (2 x 360 EUR) 3) quiet (I'll throw out *all* older/smaller hds) 4) direkt fast access 5) daily cronjob
Cross-mirror Disadvantages:
1) just *one* one day old snapshot 2) no automatic raid mirror, where you don't have to do anything
Comments on the disadvantages:
ad 1) use the -b flag on backup, so nothing will be deleted, just moved out of the way and then use the -delete flag from time to time, or clean up by hand.
ad 2) having the disks in the same computer is dangerous for backups, considering high voltage etc.
You can even do that with more than two computers. Put a second 400GB disk into your server just for backups;-) Then the layout becomes more centralized...
20 GB Ogg Vorbis Multi Platform JAVA Interface USB 2.0...
I'm owner of the first iPod model. Had to replace the battery 1 1/2 year after ther purchase. The new iPod's get smaller, the battery capacity gets shorter and to be honest I like mechanical parts like the scroll wheel. Furthermore they made a stupid cradle, so I don't have a direct IEEE1394 connector anymore...
To make it short I would not buy a new iPod model, I'd buy the Rio Karma. I actually did some research after my battery was gone, but replacing the battery was $80 - thats a lot cheaper - and I have not converted my songs to.ogg yet...
From Section 0: "Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all."
So if you distribute you have to grant everybody a free license...
From Section 7: "If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all."
SCO realizes, the their lawsuit terminates their GPL license to the kernel...
This script syncs a local directory with your iPod. If the directory is larger than the space on your iPod you can sync this larger directory with a master playlist.
Features:
* Syncronisation with a local directory or a master playlist
* Optional playlists
* On the fly created playlists
* Mp3 info from mp3 tags or filenames
* Creation of iTunesDB file from all files on your iPod
For those who bought either DVD-R(W) or DVD+RW nothing changes. Todays players (standalone and DVD-ROMs) can play your discs fine. DVD-R plays everywhere, I have found no player, where it doesn't work.
To the future: This new format is a next generation format. 27GB per layer is a very cool capacity. Combined with MPEG2 and AC3 whole seasons of 'startrek' may be on one disc. But on the other hand: have you looked at the sizes of DVDs lately: they are big like nearly 9GB. Viewed at 27GB from this side it's actually small. It's the bare minimum;-)
The physical problems with DVDs are scratches. The more capacity there is on the disc the more problems you get.
What I like about this announcement is that all major players are on the list, this is positive: nobody will have choose the "better" format, this is also the negative thing;-) They will have full world-wide control over the format, things like region-protection will probably be better enforced, because of their monopoly in the market.
To those who need DVD-R right now, nothing has changed, buy a player, I've seen discs as cheap as $3;-) And the DVR-A-03 is very cheap too.
For those who want a DVD-video recorder: WAIT for this new format, this will really enhance the VCR experiance: direct access and capacity...
Here in Austria (and Germany) we have the Paysafecard. [http://www.paysafecard.com].
It seems to be similar somehow. Each card is an anonymous account. After you spent all your money the account is gone.
Another already working non-card system is bezahlen.at. [http://bezahlen.at] Here you get a pass-through bank account which is connected to your real bank account. If you buy something you give one authorization to bezahlen.at. They have full access to you bank account, but you have to confirm each payment.
> 2. What examples of fair uses absolutely require > access to the work in its most modern, digital, > uncorrupted,
> un-macrovisioned form? The only one
> that jumped out at me is making a backup copy in
> case the original is
> destroyed. But perhaps there are others
video beamers don't work with macrovision enabled.
I have >500 cds. I've ripped ripped them all and listen to them on the pc, the cd's just get archived:-) It seems that I am the prototype of someone who bought more cd's since the mp3's got popular. For every mp3 I like, I buy the cd or cd-single. (These are kept like a backup, with the highest quality.)
Of course I won't buy such a disk, because I simply can't *use* it the way I like. I'll get the mp3's and not support the artist anymore...
One theory even says, that we have ice ages every 20000 years or so, funnily the last one was 20000 years ago;-)
However it should take 50-75 years to cool down.
Each ice age starts with a "small" one. Because of the ice that builds on more areas on earths surface more sunlight gets reflected and it gets even colder, but this takes a lot longer, it's out of our lifespan...
I believe we just added or part to make it happen faster, on the other hand the climate is *very* fragile. The gulf stream which balances the climate for europe, can be slowed down a lot by warming the earth by average 4 degrees. During an ice age it stops completely, it takes a few 1000 years to bring it on again, this is when an ice age ends...
[This a theory I read about, nothing more nothing less.]
With anti-aliased fonts printing of screenshots is nearly impossible, because of the anti-aliasing: the printer can't re-aliase and then do it's own anti-aliasing. It anti-aliases the fonts again, therefore you can read a 1280x1024 screen with a small font (aliased or not), but you can't read the printout if aliased...
It would be nice to rerender for a printout - without aliasing;-)
the problem lies within syncing the stream. if two people can do that somehow through the net, a third one (= intruder) can do that too, because this communication uses conventional ("breakable":-) algorithms.
also i can't follow the argument, that todays cryptosystems use large numbers to defend themselves, and this one does not. this is certainly true, BUT to sync the stream you depend on large numbers and the problem gehts just shifted to large memory needs.
i even wonder if its possible to generate near perfect random numbers that fast... (fast enough to be not "storeable")
what will slow computers do anyway (like palmtops, etc.)
sounds like a revival of old tech, but i don't think its possible to use a one-time pad or in
this case a "none-time-pad" securely.
and even if all that is perfectly secure, who is transmitting the signal? the government?
could you slahdot guys PLEASE let us humble readers not just filter by topic, but also filter by poster.
enough of jon katz for me...
something on the topic: unbreakable is worse than you might imagine, don't expect a second 6th sense! (it's interesting though, but expect nothing... the more you may be rewarded:-)
this screen tells me what i can do with that document in this stupid viewer, not what you are ALLOWED to do. the software will not read it to you, this seems to be a feature of the pro version...
i don't know if that compromises the GPL, because if you are allowed to distribute the document and give a pointer to the source (thats the ASCII gutenberg version) adobe seems to comply with the GPL...
he did mean: run something like plex-os and then have eg. linux and windows side by side and not run windows on linux like right now... this is what real virtulization is about:-)
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I have very bad experiences with SkypeOut. People tell me all the time they don't understand me etc. If the service has the same quality in the US giving it for free is still too expensive
I also don't like the digital jitter of a normal Skype connection. It seems I'm used to analog hissing too much
BTW: I'm on a 2mbit up/down leased line... so this should be not the problem. And I think I never got a mail back from CS.
(/rant)
https://www.google.com/accounts/SmsMailSignup1
Try to identify the old drive and look up the power consumption and heating (the manufatuers have it on their web pages even for really olf drives - usually).
... (idle power consumption may be the most relevant)
Verify that the new drive consumes less power and emits less energy, because the other way round your battery life decreases
I'm planning to use 2 large disks. e.g. 400GB. One in my desktop, the second one in my server.
:) and it was always a mess until the streamer died after 3 years (weekly use).
;-) Then the layout becomes more centralized ...
Both disks get 2 partitions á 200GB. The first partition may be divided into more parts, but the last one is 200GB.
Then I'll use (intelligent == diff) rsync to copy the server partitons into directories of the last client partiton and vice versa.
It's very unlikely that 2 harddisks in 2 differnt computers die the same day - even at a lightning event - but then again you should use cheap extra fuses for that. (I had lightning and high voltage damage, power supplies and mainboards died, but no harddisk ever.)
If you need protection from fire, you have to place the second disk offsite, or use a firewire/usb 2.0 disk and store it somewhere else.
You can even use this in additon to the client/server 'mirror' described above.
I own a 12GB DDS3 streamer and worked with DLT, don't throw away the money. Harddisks are faster and the backups are easier to access. DVD's are too small...
The rsync version has a very huge advantage: I can easily access each *file* directly.
I'm using a such a backup with firewire disk and 'tar' for additional compression on another site. We had another 12GB streamer before (1000 EUR then, 550 EUR now, and 15 EUR per tape - now and then
Cross-mirror Advantages:
1) fast backups
2) relatively cheap (2 x 360 EUR)
3) quiet (I'll throw out *all* older/smaller hds)
4) direkt fast access
5) daily cronjob
Cross-mirror Disadvantages:
1) just *one* one day old snapshot
2) no automatic raid mirror, where you don't have to do anything
Comments on the disadvantages:
ad 1) use the -b flag on backup, so nothing will be deleted, just moved out of the way and then use the -delete flag from time to time, or clean up by hand.
ad 2) having the disks in the same computer is dangerous for backups, considering high voltage etc.
You can even do that with more than two computers. Put a second 400GB disk into your server just for backups
Aspect Oriented Programming. In depth information is here.
Today it's implemented in a lot of different langugages, maybe sometime in the future a whole development system is created using this technique.
Don't mistake Pointcuts as the only feature of AOP...
Another long list of links and a comprehensive introduction of the pioneers.
when you think about it, BUT this should come from IETF or some other body not from a company. A few important points:
...
1) Who will issue the keys?
2) Is anonymous mail possible if the receiver allows it?
Furthermore spamming is a social problem emerging from our commercial world and technical solutions can never be 100%. What if:
a) I send spam from a "secure" domain?
b) forge certificates?
c) the certificates are too expensive? (like SSL, I think it should be included with a domain)
I like the "Bayes" spam filters best. You get 99.5% spam protection and keep anonymous mail.
We all see the need for authenticated senders (biz communication, etc.), but we should be careful
Rio Karma 20 is the One ;-)
...
...
.ogg yet ...
20 GB
Ogg Vorbis
Multi Platform JAVA Interface
USB 2.0
I'm owner of the first iPod model. Had to replace the battery 1 1/2 year after ther purchase. The new iPod's get smaller, the battery capacity gets shorter and to be honest I like mechanical parts like the scroll wheel. Furthermore they made a stupid cradle, so I don't have a direct IEEE1394 connector anymore
To make it short I would not buy a new iPod model, I'd buy the Rio Karma. I actually did some research after my battery was gone, but replacing the battery was $80 - thats a lot cheaper - and I have not converted my songs to
SuSE wrote an open letter [german] today. Translation is here.
They are of course against software patents...
Just a few comments:
...
...
From Section 0: "Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free
program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the
program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all."
So if you distribute you have to grant everybody a free license
From Section 7: "If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot
distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you
may not distribute the Program at all."
SCO realizes, the their lawsuit terminates their GPL license to the kernel
You need a FAT32 iPod, Linux, Firewire support and Perl5 to run the software. License: GPL V2.
Form the SyncPOD homepage:
This script syncs a local directory with your iPod. If the directory is larger than the space on your iPod you can sync this larger directory with a master playlist.
Features:
* Syncronisation with a local directory or a master playlist
* Optional playlists
* On the fly created playlists
* Mp3 info from mp3 tags or filenames
* Creation of iTunesDB file from all files on your iPod
I don't want to start a flame war (it was already started ;-), but if you want compatibility go for: DVD-R. why? simply lookup the media specs:
;-)
...), but if you want compatibility go for DVD-R.
refelctivity:
DVD-R: 45-85%
DVD-RW: 18-35%
DVD+RW: 18-35%
so basically the disc gets written to in the same format when you want to write DVDs playing in standalone players. (else they could not read it
so the refelctivity is the most important value here.
NOTE: cheap DVD-R media is at the lower end of the range and even lower, but quality media is at least %50 and up.
All DVD+RW recoreders have of course better specs (12x cd-r write,
NOTE: DVD+R would probably has the same quality as DVD-R but NONE of the current (cheap) writers support that.
For those who bought either DVD-R(W) or DVD+RW nothing changes. Todays players (standalone and DVD-ROMs) can play your discs fine. DVD-R plays everywhere, I have found no player, where it doesn't work.
;-)
;-) They will have full world-wide control over the format, things like region-protection will probably be better enforced, because of their monopoly in the market.
;-) And the DVR-A-03 is very cheap too.
...
To the future: This new format is a next generation format. 27GB per layer is a very cool capacity. Combined with MPEG2 and AC3 whole seasons of 'startrek' may be on one disc. But on the other hand: have you looked at the sizes of DVDs lately: they are big like nearly 9GB. Viewed at 27GB from this side it's actually small. It's the bare minimum
The physical problems with DVDs are scratches. The more capacity there is on the disc the more problems you get.
What I like about this announcement is that all major players are on the list, this is positive: nobody will have choose the "better" format, this is also the negative thing
To those who need DVD-R right now, nothing has changed, buy a player, I've seen discs as cheap as $3
For those who want a DVD-video recorder: WAIT for this new format, this will really enhance the VCR experiance: direct access and capacity
Here in Austria (and Germany) we have the Paysafecard. [http://www.paysafecard.com].
It seems to be similar somehow. Each card is an anonymous account. After you spent all your money the account is gone.
Another already working non-card system is bezahlen.at. [http://bezahlen.at] Here you get a pass-through bank account which is connected to your real bank account. If you buy something you give one authorization to bezahlen.at. They have full access to you bank account, but you have to confirm each payment.
> 2. What examples of fair uses absolutely require > access to the work in its most modern, digital, > uncorrupted,
> un-macrovisioned form? The only one
> that jumped out at me is making a backup copy in
> case the original is
> destroyed. But perhaps there are others
video beamers don't work with macrovision enabled.
I have >500 cds. I've ripped ripped them all and listen to them on the pc, the cd's just get archived :-) It seems that I am the prototype of someone who bought more cd's since the mp3's got popular. For every mp3 I like, I buy the cd or cd-single. (These are kept like a backup, with the highest quality.)
...
Of course I won't buy such a disk, because I simply can't *use* it the way I like. I'll get the mp3's and not support the artist anymore
One theory even says, that we have ice ages every 20000 years or so, funnily the last one was 20000 years ago ;-)
...
...
However it should take 50-75 years to cool down.
Each ice age starts with a "small" one. Because of the ice that builds on more areas on earths surface more sunlight gets reflected and it gets even colder, but this takes a lot longer, it's out of our lifespan
I believe we just added or part to make it happen faster, on the other hand the climate is *very* fragile. The gulf stream which balances the climate for europe, can be slowed down a lot by warming the earth by average 4 degrees. During an ice age it stops completely, it takes a few 1000 years to bring it on again, this is when an ice age ends
[This a theory I read about, nothing more nothing less.]
Sometimes this is not possible ????!!!! And printing a screenshot is my last resort ...
(Not all people are too stupid to find the 'Print' option, the applications are too stupid to give you one.)
With anti-aliased fonts printing of screenshots is nearly impossible, because of the anti-aliasing: the printer can't re-aliase and then do it's own anti-aliasing. It anti-aliases the fonts again, therefore you can read a 1280x1024 screen with a small font (aliased or not), but you can't read the printout if aliased
It would be nice to rerender for a printout - without aliasing
Windows has this problem too.
You are right. Rabin is a great matematician.
BUT: most of the issues of the discussion are about the PRACTIAL outcome.
He may consider the whole matematics about that, but not if its practical to do that.
the problem lies within syncing the stream. if two people can do that somehow through the net, a third one (= intruder) can do that too, because this communication uses conventional ("breakable" :-) algorithms.
... (fast enough to be not "storeable")
:-)
also i can't follow the argument, that todays cryptosystems use large numbers to defend themselves, and this one does not. this is certainly true, BUT to sync the stream you depend on large numbers and the problem gehts just shifted to large memory needs.
i even wonder if its possible to generate near perfect random numbers that fast
what will slow computers do anyway (like palmtops, etc.)
sounds like a revival of old tech, but i don't think its possible to use a one-time pad or in
this case a "none-time-pad" securely.
and even if all that is perfectly secure, who is transmitting the signal? the government?
sure
it takes a long time to process the slashdot story queue, doesn't it?
sorry, i haven't looked at the prefs for a year, you *can* filter out the non geeks :-)
could you slahdot guys PLEASE let us humble readers not just filter by topic, but also filter by poster.
...
... the more you may be rewarded :-)
enough of jon katz for me
something on the topic: unbreakable is worse than you might imagine, don't expect a second 6th sense! (it's interesting though, but expect nothing
this screen tells me what i can do with that document in this stupid viewer, not what you are ALLOWED to do. the software will not read it to you, this seems to be a feature of the pro version ...
...
i don't know if that compromises the GPL, because if you are allowed to distribute the document and give a pointer to the source (thats the ASCII gutenberg version) adobe seems to comply with the GPL
where is bruce?
;-)
he did mean: run something like plex-os and then have eg. linux and windows side by side and not run windows on linux like right now ... this is what real virtulization is about :-)