typical schools do it by registering your ethernet card's MAC address with an authorized user id. that way it doesn't matter what jack you plugged in, as long as it is the same computer, they know who it is.
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Surely you see the difference between him SSHing home, which is one person using a connection, and having a ton of people request a file from his connection versus some service's connection (flickr in this case). Email is personal, sharing pictures is public.. it's a bandwidth thing, not a question of where it comes from.
Don't get me wrong, I 100% agree with you here. The FAQ should not contain such blatant opinions (and poor language), but I was just pointing out what the op seemed to have missed.
I think you missed the second part from the FAQ: and libparted doesn't support it very well
No matter what the developer's opinion of ReiserFS or Hans is, I think the second part of the FAQ entry is much more of an explanation as to why there is no ReiserFS support.
Last I checked, Newegg's return policy on dead pixels for LCDs was a minimum of 8. If you get 4 when its shipped to you, tough luck. As a Dell Home customer, you could send it back no problem. My example was supposed to be for a superflous (sp?) situation like a random scratch.
Yes, there is a difference in pricing in the different sections, but one of the things that is different is the return/exchange policy. If you buy an LCD from the Home Consumer, you can exchange it for absolutely any reason, including something superficial like a scratch on the mount. I had a friend with a bright spot on his 20" lcd, not a dead pixel or anything, but just a bright spot, and he sent it back in no problem. However, you don't get such a policy when you buy from Small Business.
So, yes, one may be cheaper, but not necessarily better, if you're unlucky.
My father lives in Southern Pines, NC, and a small business has started up there providing wireless broadband access, becuase there are no other options for high speed internet available. They deploy some products made by Motorola called the Canopy in order to achieve it. Unfortunatly, you have to purchase some proprietary hardware, and the geography of your location really affects the signal. He gets good signal where the box is located now, but some people at the bottom of valleys and hills can barely get signal. It's some kind of line of sight thing, but since they are on cell phone towers it has good coverage.
Speedwise, it's pretty decent from when I've been there to use it. They've had some issues with reliability when they get some big storms (that's prime hurricane aftermath territory), but I wouldn't be suprised.
Just wanted to post to let those who were thinking about the WiMax solution for rural areas, becuase here is a solution already being used.
I owned a Sony NetMD walkman for a few years (I now own a 40gb iPod:). Their software to get songs on the device was absolute garbage, but there was some weird method in which it would convert your mp3s to ATRAC and put the DRM stuff on it, but you could just convert that mp3 again and then it would lose the "transfer count" on it. Seemed kinda dumb. I hated using it anyway.
In order to get MP3s on the device, I'd use a combination of things. I'd burn a cd with Nero's Image Writer, and then mount it using Nero's image mounter. Then, I'd use the NetMD SimpleBurner, which was a well designed program imho. Rip to the MD, umount and delete the image, and there you go. Still, takes a number of steps to get done.
Negative. MS provides installable exe files of the patches that you can download/install regardless of your legality with Windows or not. This is what I always did before I went legal.
Um, defintely not this one. This one, like the Sasser worm, exploits a buffer overflow problem in the LSASS service under Windows, which obviously has nothing to do with *nix.
*nix is not invulnerable, no, but from what I know, far less exploits are around because of quality coding.
Oni for PC is actually a very good game. The load times are nonexistant, and the graphics i thought for the time were really good.
The difficulty of the game is another thing tho... I've been stuck on the same level for about 2 YEARS now (of course i haven't been playing much lately..). It has save points throughtout the levels, but you have to be smart and manage your hypos right. Basically, don't get hit ever, and you'll be fine. Too bad the AI is super cheap..
Anyone else worried about misenterpreting these standsups from Verizon and SBC as being pro-filesharing? Though the article talks about them trying to protect their users, the overall picture seems to be painted as evil RIAA vs. good ISPs, which is really not the whole picture.
Why exactly are the ISPs so concerned with the user privacy? As an end user I'm certainly concerned with it, but you'd think that ISPs wouldn't really care that much. Fighting the RIAA will cost them money, just to protect privacy? What have they to gain from that?
I totally agree. Most of the music I listen to is underground (hardcore), so most bands will never be popular at all simply becuase of the music format. I don't think many bands want to get that way either. When I was in a band back in the day, I didn't care at all about money, I just wanted people to know who we were and come out to the shows to have fun.
However, it's always nice when one of the bands gets recognized.. for instance, my favorite band of all time, Cave In, has been getting some press as of late. I've heard them on the radio, and I regularly see their latest release Antenna in stores and ads.
i know its trendy to knock on sites getting slashdotted fast, but damn, 15 comments and this thing was crawling? They running their webserver off a p800 too?
It is rumored that the FBI's Magic Lantern key logger does just this, and has specific hooks for the password entry dialog of known `terrorist` applications like PGPdisk, BestCrypt, KGB, etc.
How would this work? IF these programs were written with security from such things in mind, then you'd be able to change the classname/window title/etc on the command line or when it first loads. That way, how would Magic Lantern know what to hook?
Or maybe they thought of this already. Those FBI, they're sharp people...
There are several internet cafes that I have been to in NYC and in Scotland that run modded win98 boxes that really don't let you do much. After each session it reboots the machine entirely and wipes away anything you did. I was decently impressed with that happening on win98 but then again, a lot of the shortcuts i use to get around that system were disabled and that was a little annoying.
Does anyone think the employee at kinkos getting paid $6/hr cares enough to learn about keystroke logging or check it out?
Why is it that the general idea of most people that how much you get paid is directly related to how much effort you put into the job? I worked at Staples in high school, i was paid 6.25 an hour, and I did a pretty damn good job I might say. I didn't mope around my whole shift, I'd help people out, learn about things i didn't know (like printers, i don't print anyhting ever so i didn't know much about the technology in em), took time to learn how do work the machines in our copy center, etc etc. You trying to say that becuase Kinko's employees get paid x amount of dollars they won't bother with this stuff? They could be a budding geek like you and me, still in high school or college something, and they certainly would take an interest in it.
I'm a computer science student at RPI as well, and it really depends on the class you are taking to whether this occurs or not. Some professors will ask that you put the laptops away and that you listen, others care little.
In most cases, the use does not really revolve around the topic at hand, but it doesn't always mean that you're just sh*tting around either. I've spent time in class working on other projects or correcting homeworks, simply becuase being in a different environment than my room helped motivate me. Most of hte time however, you tend to pick up the things that are interesting about that class.
More and more scholarly publications are putting up their issues in PDF format, which Google indexes as though they were traditional Web pages. But almost no one is publishing entire books online in PDF form. So, when you're doing research online, Google is implicitly pushing you toward information stored in articles and away from information stored in books. Assuming this practice continues, and assuming that Google continues to grow in influence, we may find ourselves in a world where, if you want to get an idea into circulation, you're better off publishing a PDF file on the Web than landing a book deal.
Let's review this statement. The author states that no one puts up books in PDF form, and therefore, Google doesn't search these books? How is this a problem? If the book isn't online in the first place, html/pdf/whatever format, then how can Google possibly give you links to that book? Google is not a search engine *AND* a library, it is a search engine. The article seems to imply that Google is taking away from something else. The only thing I can think of is using Google for research vs. traditional methods of research, i.e., library work. If that is the author's arguement, then they are about 4-6 years behind the times, because the switch has already happened, or at least it has amongst my generation.
I haven't done research in a library since 5th grade (11 years ago).
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Didn't they try this back in 1997 with VRML? It was useless then, it hasn't changed now.
typical schools do it by registering your ethernet card's MAC address with an authorized user id. that way it doesn't matter what jack you plugged in, as long as it is the same computer, they know who it is.
Surely you see the difference between him SSHing home, which is one person using a connection, and having a ton of people request a file from his connection versus some service's connection (flickr in this case). Email is personal, sharing pictures is public.. it's a bandwidth thing, not a question of where it comes from.
Guess you've never heard of Cairo (as another reply pointed out), or maybe Xgl /Xegl?
Or even seen the videos of what luminocity can do? It can do that NOW. How about Project Looking Glass?
Just becuase you don't know about them yet doesn't mean they don't exist.
creepy, as Google would be reading all the messages that go in and out
As creepy as GMail is, then?
Don't get me wrong, I 100% agree with you here. The FAQ should not contain such blatant opinions (and poor language), but I was just pointing out what the op seemed to have missed.
I think you missed the second part from the FAQ:
and libparted doesn't support it very well
No matter what the developer's opinion of ReiserFS or Hans is, I think the second part of the FAQ entry is much more of an explanation as to why there is no ReiserFS support.
Last I checked, Newegg's return policy on dead pixels for LCDs was a minimum of 8. If you get 4 when its shipped to you, tough luck. As a Dell Home customer, you could send it back no problem. My example was supposed to be for a superflous (sp?) situation like a random scratch.
Yes, there is a difference in pricing in the different sections, but one of the things that is different is the return/exchange policy. If you buy an LCD from the Home Consumer, you can exchange it for absolutely any reason, including something superficial like a scratch on the mount. I had a friend with a bright spot on his 20" lcd, not a dead pixel or anything, but just a bright spot, and he sent it back in no problem. However, you don't get such a policy when you buy from Small Business.
So, yes, one may be cheaper, but not necessarily better, if you're unlucky.
My father lives in Southern Pines, NC, and a small business has started up there providing wireless broadband access, becuase there are no other options for high speed internet available. They deploy some products made by Motorola called the Canopy in order to achieve it. Unfortunatly, you have to purchase some proprietary hardware, and the geography of your location really affects the signal. He gets good signal where the box is located now, but some people at the bottom of valleys and hills can barely get signal. It's some kind of line of sight thing, but since they are on cell phone towers it has good coverage.
Speedwise, it's pretty decent from when I've been there to use it. They've had some issues with reliability when they get some big storms (that's prime hurricane aftermath territory), but I wouldn't be suprised.
Just wanted to post to let those who were thinking about the WiMax solution for rural areas, becuase here is a solution already being used.
I owned a Sony NetMD walkman for a few years (I now own a 40gb iPod :). Their software to get songs on the device was absolute garbage, but there was some weird method in which it would convert your mp3s to ATRAC and put the DRM stuff on it, but you could just convert that mp3 again and then it would lose the "transfer count" on it. Seemed kinda dumb. I hated using it anyway.
In order to get MP3s on the device, I'd use a combination of things. I'd burn a cd with Nero's Image Writer, and then mount it using Nero's image mounter. Then, I'd use the NetMD SimpleBurner, which was a well designed program imho. Rip to the MD, umount and delete the image, and there you go. Still, takes a number of steps to get done.
I'll take my iPod over that any day.
Negative. MS provides installable exe files of the patches that you can download/install regardless of your legality with Windows or not. This is what I always did before I went legal.
Or, as a even better solution, use nullsoft's safesex. Then the virus writer would learn your safesex password but not your real passwords to things..
Um, defintely not this one. This one, like the Sasser worm, exploits a buffer overflow problem in the LSASS service under Windows, which obviously has nothing to do with *nix.
*nix is not invulnerable, no, but from what I know, far less exploits are around because of quality coding.
they did. good idea, bad car to pair it with. now only if they did that deal with the Golf R32..
Oni for PC is actually a very good game. The load times are nonexistant, and the graphics i thought for the time were really good.
The difficulty of the game is another thing tho... I've been stuck on the same level for about 2 YEARS now (of course i haven't been playing much lately..). It has save points throughtout the levels, but you have to be smart and manage your hypos right. Basically, don't get hit ever, and you'll be fine. Too bad the AI is super cheap..
linux 9.1? i didn't realize it skipped over 5 major releases since yesterday..
Anyone else worried about misenterpreting these standsups from Verizon and SBC as being pro-filesharing? Though the article talks about them trying to protect their users, the overall picture seems to be painted as evil RIAA vs. good ISPs, which is really not the whole picture.
Why exactly are the ISPs so concerned with the user privacy? As an end user I'm certainly concerned with it, but you'd think that ISPs wouldn't really care that much. Fighting the RIAA will cost them money, just to protect privacy? What have they to gain from that?
I totally agree. Most of the music I listen to is underground (hardcore), so most bands will never be popular at all simply becuase of the music format. I don't think many bands want to get that way either. When I was in a band back in the day, I didn't care at all about money, I just wanted people to know who we were and come out to the shows to have fun.
However, it's always nice when one of the bands gets recognized.. for instance, my favorite band of all time, Cave In, has been getting some press as of late. I've heard them on the radio, and I regularly see their latest release Antenna in stores and ads.
i know its trendy to knock on sites getting slashdotted fast, but damn, 15 comments and this thing was crawling? They running their webserver off a p800 too?
How would this work? IF these programs were written with security from such things in mind, then you'd be able to change the classname/window title/etc on the command line or when it first loads. That way, how would Magic Lantern know what to hook?
Or maybe they thought of this already. Those FBI, they're sharp people...
There are several internet cafes that I have been to in NYC and in Scotland that run modded win98 boxes that really don't let you do much. After each session it reboots the machine entirely and wipes away anything you did. I was decently impressed with that happening on win98 but then again, a lot of the shortcuts i use to get around that system were disabled and that was a little annoying.
Why is it that the general idea of most people that how much you get paid is directly related to how much effort you put into the job? I worked at Staples in high school, i was paid 6.25 an hour, and I did a pretty damn good job I might say. I didn't mope around my whole shift, I'd help people out, learn about things i didn't know (like printers, i don't print anyhting ever so i didn't know much about the technology in em), took time to learn how do work the machines in our copy center, etc etc. You trying to say that becuase Kinko's employees get paid x amount of dollars they won't bother with this stuff? They could be a budding geek like you and me, still in high school or college something, and they certainly would take an interest in it.
I'm a computer science student at RPI as well, and it really depends on the class you are taking to whether this occurs or not. Some professors will ask that you put the laptops away and that you listen, others care little.
In most cases, the use does not really revolve around the topic at hand, but it doesn't always mean that you're just sh*tting around either. I've spent time in class working on other projects or correcting homeworks, simply becuase being in a different environment than my room helped motivate me. Most of hte time however, you tend to pick up the things that are interesting about that class.
Let's review this statement. The author states that no one puts up books in PDF form, and therefore, Google doesn't search these books? How is this a problem? If the book isn't online in the first place, html/pdf/whatever format, then how can Google possibly give you links to that book? Google is not a search engine *AND* a library, it is a search engine. The article seems to imply that Google is taking away from something else. The only thing I can think of is using Google for research vs. traditional methods of research, i.e., library work. If that is the author's arguement, then they are about 4-6 years behind the times, because the switch has already happened, or at least it has amongst my generation.
I haven't done research in a library since 5th grade (11 years ago).