so, is it bright enough to be seen from the international space station? That's one cool project, but I wonder that the MTBF on the lights are? He must have his kids continuously running around replacing bulbs!
It wouldn't take much -- change red-carpet to look for multiple mirror sites, subscribe to Ximian so you can mirror it at high speed, then provide lower cost or free alternative mirror sites. The software they are distributing is GPL, so I don't think there are any legal problems here (I ain't a lawyer, blah blah etc.).
I don't have a problem with this business model, but I won't subscribe. It isn't worth $10 a month to me. I try to closely watch my reocurring costs, its a little bit like taxes -- every little bit adds up to one big bill.
I'd be more inclined to subscribe to a per-meg or per-package update scheme. Buy 'credits' towards upgrades that you really want and download the rest over the slow link.
I ran into this problem earlier this year after a HD failed. I finally settled on backup drives on various machines on the LAN, using rsync to update the backups so that only the changes are copied.
I never had much luck with tapes, and CDR is nice but a pain in the butt when you have 2 gigs to backup.
Good point, I hadn't realized the commands took that long. My X-10 experience consists of turning a plant light on and off, so timing really wasn't an issue.
It seems to me that it would have been alot easier to maintain and control if they had used X-10 controllers with wireless modules to span any splits in the power lines. The others reader's idea of colored lamps would be neat as well.
I don't know if there are X-10 modules available in Germany though. Seems like an awful lot of work to run all that power around the building when you could just plug the lamp into a control modules and run it all with a firecracker X-10 serial controller.
CryptFS uses the VFS (Vnode Filesystem) to implement an encrypted filesystem. I've used it on and off over the last several years. In Kernel 2.2.x it needs the FIST kernel patch to work. FIST has been included in the 2.4.x kernel tree, so now all you need is cryptfs.
First the disclaimer - I'm lead programmer on this project so I'm biased. It isn't complete yet, but it will be available 'Real Soon Now'. We have beta units that we are testing right now and I am writing software as quickly as possible.
The SM2496 is a general purpose DSP module for the Handspring Visor that uses a 160MHz TI DSP, 96kHz 24bit codec and has an MMC slot for MP3 storage. We use DOS formatted MMCs so transferring files using a MMC reader is fast and easy. With stereo inputs and outputs it can Play and Record stereo MP3 files at 128kbps.
The module could also be used as a Game soundcard for Visor games, HAM radio modem (I have 1200bps and 9600bps G3RUH running), or any other audio application that a creative DSP programmer can come up with.
Development modules with a Software Development Kit and JTAG interface for use with TI compatible JTAG pods will be availble soon (sooner than the consumer MP3 version). Any TI DSP programmers want to port Ogg Vorbis to the unit?
Yep, sure enough. They refused the transfer because they need to hold the domain hostage for 60 days. What kind of happy horseshit is this? Its my damn domain and I ought to be able to transfer it to whomever I want to. We just bought the domain so they say that the ownership change resets the 60 day time.
And the kicker is that the host template can't be updated because its registered with CORE, not NSI. They say they will manually insert the correct host template for me in a few days. I'll believe it when I see it.
When are we going to do something to change this DNS mess? There's nothing magic about the servers or their organization. We need open servers with open name spaces. Free the Domains!!
For the last 2 weeks I have been trying to get a simple host record updated. The old IP address has been turned off. They send me mail saing its being processed, I call and they say 'well, the system is slow'. So I tried to create a new host record for the new IP, it says its sending a email to the authorized hostname admin. Which I am, and I never get an email!
I'm dreading transferring my last domain over to joker this week. I've done 2 others in the last year with no problems, but it sounds like they are getting worse.
This whole domain registration thing is a crosk of shit as it is. It out to be open, shared, free and first-come, first-served.
I second this. I've had no problems with joker in the 2 years I've been using them. Changes are always completed promptly and new domains are up and running within 24 hours.
As for idiots blocking all joker registered domains, they are just that, idiots.
I don't care what the relative merits are. Everything Microsoft does has the express purpose of generating more revenue for them. I don't have a problem with that. Except that they do it at the expense of openness and compatibility. Just look at the recent problems with people converting their websites to IE only -- Not that Opera or Netscape can't display the site, but that they only want Microsoft products to be used.
This whole C#,.NET bruhaha is a dangerous step toward giving up more control of your computer. Hell, put them together with Windows XP and you may as well have Bill sitting at your keyboard.
C# is just another attempt by Microsoft to coopt the programming world. Stick with 'C', C++, Perl, Python, etc. Once C3 and.NET become entrenched you will be sorry!
Life costs money. It ain't free. Bandwidth costs money, as do computers, support people and lawyers. If you have no income you cannot maintain a service, no matter how 'popular' it is. If something is useful to you, then you ought to be willing to support it monitarily. Otherwise it is going to go away.
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But I still don't think its right. I'm a huge Bruce Lee fan but it just doesn't seem right to resurrect him as a Digital Zombie. Are we going to see a film starring Bruce and his son Brandon (who was killed while filming The Crow)? I'd rather just enjoy the films he did make. There still isn't anyone who can move like he did.
I regularly try to estimate my time, and come in at 1/2 to 1/3 (or worse) of the actual time to complete the task, even when I try to take into account the 2x or 3x factor! There are just too many factors involved (for example, your development platform crashes and takes a day to rebuild and get up to speed). Or the problem is more complex than it looks on the surface -- alot of the time you never really understand whats involved in the project until you dig into it.
But of course the client doesn't understand these things, so when you submit a proposal for 3x what they expected it to cost they freak out. So you submit for 2x what you estimate and hope they will understand when things take too long .
For those interested in the mountain behind (or above, being the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States at 14,412 feet) go take a look at the Mount Rainier National Park Homepage. Its a beautiful place (I grew up there, my dad was a Park Ranger (look at his page for more pics of the mountain).
Too many parallels to 1984 thesedays. But that doesn't make it any less true. Language is how we communicate and it is also how a society is perceived. When you change or completely remove words from the language you are directing how you can express yourself and what forms of expression are acceptable.
Look what has happend to 'gay', 'fag' (British definition), moot (look it up, you'll be surprised), 'assault' (as mis-used in assault-weapon), 'gun violence' (agun can't be violent, only a person can).
And many other terms that have been perverted or changed in just the last 50 years. Some of this is normal, all language shifts over time, but to completely remove supposedly offensive terms from MS Word is inexcusable.
So in addition to Microsoft's attempts to take over Internet (recent deal with Qwest) and your computer (XP is the most anti-freedom OS invented to date) they are trying to destroy our language as well.
I'm not going to be upgrading to any OS that forces me to register it with the central authorities. Who knows what they are sending in for your 'registration'. For that matter who knows what other things its going to be sending. Has anyone put a sniffer on XF yet?
I call for RMS and Eric Raymond to join forces and create an OpenSource ID card - The APIs would be known to everyone, you would know exactly what's on your card and in the database at all times, everyone could setup their own ID servers and alter their cards when needed.
From the document it sounded like they were concerned about multiple layers or methods of encryption. Replacing PGP with a trojan version would have only provided them with one step of the process.
RH 7.1 and Ximian is pretty darn useable. I'm a old-school Slackware fan, but I finally tried out RH 7.1 and the new Ximian desktop with Evolution for mail and its been pretty useable. Abiword works for my wordprocessing needs and Mozilla is also getting pretty mature.
You have to expect some amount of learning when switching to a new system, it sounds like the IT department didn't do its job training the new users and troubleshooting their problems.
And if your company website doesn't work with non-IE web browsers then it needs to be redesigned! Read Jakob Neilson's books on web design.
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I've noticed a recent increase in spam with odd character encoding, mostly Chinese I think. Good thing my spam filter is running well.
so, is it bright enough to be seen from the international space station? That's one cool project, but I wonder that the MTBF on the lights are? He must have his kids continuously running around replacing bulbs!
It wouldn't take much -- change red-carpet to look for multiple mirror sites, subscribe to Ximian so you can mirror it at high speed, then provide lower cost or free alternative mirror sites. The software they are distributing is GPL, so I don't think there are any legal problems here (I ain't a lawyer, blah blah etc.).
I don't have a problem with this business model, but I won't subscribe. It isn't worth $10 a month to me. I try to closely watch my reocurring costs, its a little bit like taxes -- every little bit adds up to one big bill.
I'd be more inclined to subscribe to a per-meg or per-package update scheme. Buy 'credits' towards upgrades that you really want and download the rest over the slow link.
Brian
I ran into this problem earlier this year after a HD failed. I finally settled on backup drives on various machines on the LAN, using rsync to update the backups so that only the changes are copied.
I never had much luck with tapes, and CDR is nice but a pain in the butt when you have 2 gigs to backup.
Brian
Good point, I hadn't realized the commands took that long. My X-10 experience consists of turning a plant light on and off, so timing really wasn't an issue.
Brian
It seems to me that it would have been alot easier to maintain and control if they had used X-10 controllers with wireless modules to span any splits in the power lines. The others reader's idea of colored lamps would be neat as well.
I don't know if there are X-10 modules available in Germany though. Seems like an awful lot of work to run all that power around the building when you could just plug the lamp into a control modules and run it all with a firecracker X-10 serial controller.
Brian
CryptFS homepage
CryptFS uses the VFS (Vnode Filesystem) to implement an encrypted filesystem. I've used it on and off over the last several years. In Kernel 2.2.x it needs the FIST kernel patch to work. FIST has been included in the 2.4.x kernel tree, so now all you need is cryptfs.
Brian
Take a look at the Long Wave Club of America, they listen to low RF frequency sounds generated by things like lightning.
First the disclaimer - I'm lead programmer on this project so I'm biased. It isn't complete yet, but it will be available 'Real Soon Now'. We have beta units that we are testing right now and I am writing software as quickly as possible.
The SM2496 is a general purpose DSP module for the Handspring Visor that uses a 160MHz TI DSP, 96kHz 24bit codec and has an MMC slot for MP3 storage. We use DOS formatted MMCs so transferring files using a MMC reader is fast and easy. With stereo inputs and outputs it can Play and Record stereo MP3 files at 128kbps.
The module could also be used as a Game soundcard for Visor games, HAM radio modem (I have 1200bps and 9600bps G3RUH running), or any other audio application that a creative DSP programmer can come up with.
Development modules with a Software Development Kit and JTAG interface for use with TI compatible JTAG pods will be availble soon (sooner than the consumer MP3 version). Any TI DSP programmers want to port Ogg Vorbis to the unit?
Brian Lane brian@shinemicro.com
Shine Micro
Yep, sure enough. They refused the transfer because they need to hold the domain hostage for 60 days. What kind of happy horseshit is this? Its my damn domain and I ought to be able to transfer it to whomever I want to. We just bought the domain so they say that the ownership change resets the 60 day time.
And the kicker is that the host template can't be updated because its registered with CORE, not NSI. They say they will manually insert the correct host template for me in a few days. I'll believe it when I see it.
When are we going to do something to change this DNS mess? There's nothing magic about the servers or their organization. We need open servers with open name spaces. Free the Domains!!
For the last 2 weeks I have been trying to get a simple host record updated. The old IP address has been turned off. They send me mail saing its being processed, I call and they say 'well, the system is slow'. So I tried to create a new host record for the new IP, it says its sending a email to the authorized hostname admin. Which I am, and I never get an email!
I'm dreading transferring my last domain over to joker this week. I've done 2 others in the last year with no problems, but it sounds like they are getting worse.
This whole domain registration thing is a crosk of shit as it is. It out to be open, shared, free and first-come, first-served.
I second this. I've had no problems with joker in the 2 years I've been using them. Changes are always completed promptly and new domains are up and running within 24 hours.
As for idiots blocking all joker registered domains, they are just that, idiots.
I don't care what the relative merits are. Everything Microsoft does has the express purpose of generating more revenue for them. I don't have a problem with that. Except that they do it at the expense of openness and compatibility. Just look at the recent problems with people converting their websites to IE only -- Not that Opera or Netscape can't display the site, but that they only want Microsoft products to be used.
.NET bruhaha is a dangerous step toward giving up more control of your computer. Hell, put them together with Windows XP and you may as well have Bill sitting at your keyboard.
This whole C#,
C# is just another attempt by Microsoft to coopt the programming world. Stick with 'C', C++, Perl, Python, etc. Once C3 and .NET become entrenched you will be sorry!
Life costs money. It ain't free. Bandwidth costs money, as do computers, support people and lawyers. If you have no income you cannot maintain a service, no matter how 'popular' it is. If something is useful to you, then you ought to be willing to support it monitarily. Otherwise it is going to go away.
TANSTAAFL
But I still don't think its right. I'm a huge Bruce Lee fan but it just doesn't seem right to resurrect him as a Digital Zombie. Are we going to see a film starring Bruce and his son Brandon (who was killed while filming The Crow)? I'd rather just enjoy the films he did make. There still isn't anyone who can move like he did.
I regularly try to estimate my time, and come in at 1/2 to 1/3 (or worse) of the actual time to complete the task, even when I try to take into account the 2x or 3x factor! There are just too many factors involved (for example, your development platform crashes and takes a day to rebuild and get up to speed). Or the problem is more complex than it looks on the surface -- alot of the time you never really understand whats involved in the project until you dig into it.
But of course the client doesn't understand these things, so when you submit a proposal for 3x what they expected it to cost they freak out. So you submit for 2x what you estimate and hope they will understand when things take too long .
For those interested in the mountain behind (or above, being the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States at 14,412 feet) go take a look at the Mount Rainier National Park Homepage. Its a beautiful place (I grew up there, my dad was a Park Ranger (look at his page for more pics of the mountain).
I have an if-archive mirror available at ftp.guetech.org, and my small IF website at www.guetech.org. The archive is updated nightly and the contest directory is at ftp.guetech.org/if-archive/games/competition2001
Too many parallels to 1984 thesedays. But that doesn't make it any less true. Language is how we communicate and it is also how a society is perceived. When you change or completely remove words from the language you are directing how you can express yourself and what forms of expression are acceptable.
Look what has happend to 'gay', 'fag' (British definition), moot (look it up, you'll be surprised), 'assault' (as mis-used in assault-weapon), 'gun violence' (agun can't be violent, only a person can).
And many other terms that have been perverted or changed in just the last 50 years. Some of this is normal, all language shifts over time, but to completely remove supposedly offensive terms from MS Word is inexcusable.
So in addition to Microsoft's attempts to take over Internet (recent deal with Qwest) and your computer (XP is the most anti-freedom OS invented to date) they are trying to destroy our language as well.
Bah!
I don't have any use for the msn site anyway, why should I care that they are locking out browsers?
I'm not going to be upgrading to any OS that forces me to register it with the central authorities. Who knows what they are sending in for your 'registration'. For that matter who knows what other things its going to be sending. Has anyone put a sniffer on XF yet?
I call for RMS and Eric Raymond to join forces and create an OpenSource ID card - The APIs would be known to everyone, you would know exactly what's on your card and in the database at all times, everyone could setup their own ID servers and alter their cards when needed.
From the document it sounded like they were concerned about multiple layers or methods of encryption. Replacing PGP with a trojan version would have only provided them with one step of the process.
RH 7.1 and Ximian is pretty darn useable. I'm a old-school Slackware fan, but I finally tried out RH 7.1 and the new Ximian desktop with Evolution for mail and its been pretty useable. Abiword works for my wordprocessing needs and Mozilla is also getting pretty mature.
You have to expect some amount of learning when switching to a new system, it sounds like the IT department didn't do its job training the new users and troubleshooting their problems.
And if your company website doesn't work with non-IE web browsers then it needs to be redesigned! Read Jakob Neilson's books on web design.