YMMV, I'm still running 2.0b2 on Ubuntu Edgy. A majority of my ffx crashing with the VLC plugin went away with the latest and greatest VLC packages. Seems like the VLC packages were getting updated every day for a while, and it got worse a few times before it got better, but it seems quite stable now.
Stable enough that I can watch CNN pipeline and switch streams with impunity. Prior to about five or six days ago, switching streams seemed to bomb ffx about 1 out of 5 times. It still happens now, but it's pretty rare.
I'm typing this from 2.0b2 and apt is updating everything right now.....There is a ffx update in there, I hope it's RC2, if it's not I will install it manually.
I'll post back to this thread later tonight after I give it a whirl.
Sounds like the mark of an excellent manager. Feature-creep, and not being willing to throw something away are two things that doom a lot of software projects. De-feature-creeping, and retroactively calling something a prototype are *good* things.
Not really, since we can probably see that even though Sony's right hand seems to operate independently of it's left, the DMCA does *not* really restrict your rights to your *own* work. To quote from it directly:
`(A) to `circumvent a technological protection measure' means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological protection measure, without the authority of the copyright owner;
Without the authority is the key phrase here. Sony can descramble/bypass the encryption on their own work until they are blue (or blu-ray) in the face and they are okay. Ditto you or me on our own works.
I don't like the DMCA, but at least take the time to read the damned thing before spouting off on it.
Huh?, I can plug my digital only VX7000 right into my Linux workstation and dial out on it.
And I'm sure it emulates a modem just fantastically, so has every digital phone I have had which included data service. That's not his problem, his security system box (which is likely ownwed by his landlord) just has an RJ11 phone port.
RTFA before posting. I know it's against the slashdot creedo, but read the damned article, man!
"That's right--only new PCs from certified vendors will accept a CableCARD. You can forget about buying a copy of Vista and an OCUR to roll your own solution--as ATI told us, their product will only be available in OEM systems, no doubt because of the certification issue."
The WSJ article is worded to make it sound like a slimy lawyer is trying to get a $50 million pay-day for one buyer:
Late Friday afternoon, plaintiff's attorney Marc Bern said he filed a lawsuit against Random House and its Doubleday imprint in U.S. District Court in Manhattan charging that the publishers misrepresented that book as nonfiction. His client, California resident Karen Futernick, alleges in the suit that she purchased "A Million Little Pieces" on that basis but that the defendants "failed to conduct a reasonable investigation or inquiry regarding the truthfulness or accuracy" of the material. Mr. Bern said that he will seek more than $50 million in damages for the plaintiffs.
Hmmmm, when we go from the writer's description to something "Mr. Bern said", we suddenly have "plaintiffs". Plural. This tells me the suit might involve more then the one lottery contestant the WSJ writer alluded to. Easy enough to google for a copy of the suit.
Seems the suit is actually a class action attempting to represent several million purchasers. There is plenty wrong with class-action lawsuits, and, yes, mainly the lawyers will win, yada, yada. Still, it's not quite the 'frivolous' action the WSJ author is attempting to paint. Fifty million between several million buyers does not seem unreasonable.
Interesting that the WSJ writer didn't mention that.
Bullshit. You would be advised to actually learn what in the hell you are talking about before opening your mouth.
AFP exists under special charter from the French government, and the AFP's primary client is (drum roll) the French government. The French government is financed by whom? Oh yes, the French taxpayers.
AFP could not survive without that cash from the French government, so equating them with the French State is the only reasonable conclusion that can be made.
Not that there is anything wrong with them being, for all intents and purposes, part of the French State, but face it. They are!
I would test-drive your VoIP provider of choice over the connection before you drop the bucks, if VoIP is a make-or-break.
I've had both satellite Internet (Starband...yeeech) and Vonage (after I was able to get cable). While I love Vonage, I would not want to dream of that over satellite latency.
On top of that, a 2-directional satellite system is unlikely to have the upstream bandwidth to make this smooth. Vonage has a "bandwidth saver" that you can enable, but that might be like pissing in the ocean.
That being said, a high-speed, albeit high-latency connection is a very very good thing(tm) even without voice.
Your bandwidth is still limited, so some traffic shaping and transparent http proxying might be in order.
For the communications side of it, perhaps set up a (possibly private) IRC channel where your buddies and family can hang out. You could even setup a local IRC server on your gateway box and link it with an ircd in the states. Don't know how much bandwidth you would save, but it would be cool.
My hats off to you and all of our fighting forces. Whether the war is just or not is an issue with the government, you guys go in harm's way every day.
If I were RedHat, I would want my 800 number in as many places with CentOS as possible.
Granted, a very small percentage of the people that call will be willing to take the 'upsell' to RHEL, but some will.
Plus, anybody they can squeeze an address out of gets some glossy sales material sent their way. May not make them buy today, but it sure plants the idea in their head.
They do have a messaging system for publicly asking and answering pre-sales questions, but afaik, they have nothing for doing private messaging.
Even sending out a notice that 'you have a new message in the eBay message center' as email could be vulnerable to phishing. Perhaps, big RED letters everywhere reminding people that they *never* send clickable links in the notices would help some.
Uggggggh had to decide whether to mod you up, or reply to you. If any mods are reading this, poke some points at the parent.
Excellent point, and this could also create a secure, ebay-accessable log of all of the chatter between buyer and seller for a specific item.
This could be very useful in making sense of 'he said, she said' situations, and having something more solid to use in court (be it civil or criminal).
Yes, and unlike the blacklisting of zombie client IP's, the ISP actually has a reason to care.
I don't care for certain aspects of this, but it forces ISP's to take a more pro-active approach to their own SMTP relay policies and giving them a reason to police and/or inform their customers if they are a zombie.
Although I think the logical next step might be for the zombies to start reading your smtp login information from your email MUA config and auth'ing with it, a combination of authorization and throttling might make a real dent.
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I'll save you the effort. You work for Boingo wireless.
YMMV, I'm still running 2.0b2 on Ubuntu Edgy. A majority of my ffx crashing with the VLC plugin went away with the latest and greatest VLC packages. Seems like the VLC packages were getting updated every day for a while, and it got worse a few times before it got better, but it seems quite stable now.
Stable enough that I can watch CNN pipeline and switch streams with impunity. Prior to about five or six days ago, switching streams seemed to bomb ffx about 1 out of 5 times. It still happens now, but it's pretty rare.
I'm typing this from 2.0b2 and apt is updating everything right now.....There is a ffx update in there, I hope it's RC2, if it's not I will install it manually.
I'll post back to this thread later tonight after I give it a whirl.
Ok, now let's say, hypothetically that I did. Purely hypothetical, of course. Would that make me a bad parent?
Sounds like the mark of an excellent manager. Feature-creep, and not being willing to throw something away are two things that doom a lot of software projects. De-feature-creeping, and retroactively calling something a prototype are *good* things.
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You can be tried as an adult a lot sooner then that. Nobody said they were children.
I would ask how your comment got to a three score, but that's of no use given your ability to understand simple numbers is so lacking.
Not really, since we can probably see that even though Sony's right hand seems to operate independently of it's left, the DMCA does *not* really restrict your rights to your *own* work. To quote from it directly:
`(A) to `circumvent a technological protection measure' means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological protection measure, without the authority of the copyright owner;
Without the authority is the key phrase here. Sony can descramble/bypass the encryption on their own work until they are blue (or blu-ray) in the face and they are okay. Ditto you or me on our own works.
I don't like the DMCA, but at least take the time to read the damned thing before spouting off on it.
Huh?, I can plug my digital only VX7000 right into my Linux workstation
and dial out on it.
And I'm sure it emulates a modem just fantastically, so has every digital phone I have had which included data service. That's not his problem, his security system box (which is likely ownwed by his landlord) just has an RJ11 phone port.
RTFA before posting. I know it's against the slashdot creedo, but read the damned article, man!
"That's right--only new PCs from certified vendors will accept a CableCARD. You can forget about buying a copy of Vista and an OCUR to roll your own solution--as ATI told us, their product will only be available in OEM systems, no doubt because of the certification issue."
Hmmmm, when we go from the writer's description to something "Mr. Bern said", we suddenly have "plaintiffs". Plural. This tells me the suit might involve more then the one lottery contestant the WSJ writer alluded to. Easy enough to google for a copy of the suit.
Seems the suit is actually a class action attempting to represent several million purchasers. There is plenty wrong with class-action lawsuits, and, yes, mainly the lawyers will win, yada, yada. Still, it's not quite the 'frivolous' action the WSJ author is attempting to paint. Fifty million between several million buyers does not seem unreasonable.
Interesting that the WSJ writer didn't mention that.
or...
wget -O video.avi http://tinyurl.com/bp2d8
Chrome registration error?
That's a Firefox issue, not anything specific to Windows, I get that on my Ubuntu box from time-to-time. Restarting ff seems to solve it.
Maybe my modding is a bit more advanced then yours, but it involves a funnel and some vodka.
Either that, or I'm an alcoholic. You decide.
My 7300 makes for an even better situation.
Everybody knows how much faster a PCI card covered in blood is then a NuBus card covered in blood.
Bullshit. You would be advised to actually learn what in the hell you are talking about before opening your mouth.
AFP exists under special charter from the French government, and the AFP's primary client is (drum roll) the French government. The French government is financed by whom? Oh yes, the French taxpayers.
To directly quote Wikipedia, "The primary client of AFP is the French government, which purchases subscriptions for its various services. In practice, those subscriptions are somewhat a subsidy to AFP, which is insecure financially. AFP statutes prohibit direct government subsidies."
AFP could not survive without that cash from the French government, so equating them with the French State is the only reasonable conclusion that can be made.
Not that there is anything wrong with them being, for all intents and purposes, part of the French State, but face it. They are!
I could be mistaken, but I think the initial loader on the suse install cd might be grub-based.
I would test-drive your VoIP provider of choice over the connection before you drop the bucks, if VoIP is a make-or-break.
I've had both satellite Internet (Starband...yeeech) and Vonage (after I was able to get cable). While I love Vonage, I would not want to dream of that over satellite latency.
On top of that, a 2-directional satellite system is unlikely to have the upstream bandwidth to make this smooth. Vonage has a "bandwidth saver" that you can enable, but that might be like pissing in the ocean.
That being said, a high-speed, albeit high-latency connection is a very very good thing(tm) even without voice.
Your bandwidth is still limited, so some traffic shaping and transparent http proxying might be in order.
For the communications side of it, perhaps set up a (possibly private) IRC channel where your buddies and family can hang out. You could even setup a local IRC server on your gateway box and link it with an ircd in the states. Don't know how much bandwidth you would save, but it would be cool.
My hats off to you and all of our fighting forces. Whether the war is just or not is an issue with the government, you guys go in harm's way every day.
It's second-hand. Bigger question is, "How much would it be worth on ebay?"
If I were RedHat, I would want my 800 number in as many places with CentOS as possible.
Granted, a very small percentage of the people that call will be willing to take the 'upsell' to RHEL, but some will.
Plus, anybody they can squeeze an address out of gets some glossy sales material sent their way. May not make them buy today, but it sure plants the idea in their head.
Agreed 100%
They do have a messaging system for publicly asking and answering pre-sales questions, but afaik, they have nothing for doing private messaging.
Even sending out a notice that 'you have a new message in the eBay message center' as email could be vulnerable to phishing. Perhaps, big RED letters everywhere reminding people that they *never* send clickable links in the notices would help some.
Uggggggh had to decide whether to mod you up, or reply to you. If any mods are reading this, poke some points at the parent.
Excellent point, and this could also create a secure, ebay-accessable log of all of the chatter between buyer and seller for a specific item.
This could be very useful in making sense of 'he said, she said' situations, and having something more solid to use in court (be it civil or criminal).
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Yes, and unlike the blacklisting of zombie client IP's, the ISP actually has a reason to care.
I don't care for certain aspects of this, but it forces ISP's to take a more pro-active approach to their own SMTP relay policies and giving them a reason to police and/or inform their customers if they are a zombie.
Although I think the logical next step might be for the zombies to start reading your smtp login information from your email MUA config and auth'ing with it, a combination of authorization and throttling might make a real dent.