"If the Duplex LED is flashing this means their has been a collision on your network. This happens when packets are dropped for some reason or the packets have been misdirected. This usually only happens when two computers are using the same IP address and this usually only happens when you specify an IP address rather than using the DHCP feature built in the router."
Network collisions occur when two hosts try to submit simultaneously. The NIC listens for the resulting static on the network line (as static is produced when the signals garble), waits a random length of time, and retransmits. This happens (I believe) at a lower-than-protocol level.
Experts told the Herald Sun the CD-pirating kiosks -- with superior sound quality to home burners and able to outwit anti-copying devices -- will be a winner with older users.
Can someone explain to me how one digital-to-digital bitwise copy mechanism can result in 'superior sound quality' when compared to another mechanism, using the same data?
"The new version will be able to host hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users from throughout the world, thanks to real-time translation in English, French, German, Japanese and Korean, as well as localized servers in select countries, Sony said."
Hee... automatic Engrish. Think they'll be able to pull this off? It must take a very large amount of resources to run the translations.. what about acronyms/shorthand/typos? Will they just pop through? Will the client have to use its own text rendering method to display Unicode characters on lesser operating systems (98-ME)?
But the bulbs cost ~$300 a pop... this would be an expensive display device to keep running. I don't think they're designed for continuous use in mind.
Does anyone know how often LCD projector bulbs need to be replaced?
Downloaded LimeWire the other day. When first I ran the program, I remember the auto-protect thing scare the hell out of me when it found a bug it classified as 'backdoor.trojan'. The file was 'dlder.exe', created in a temp directory called 'RarSFX0'.
Go to Tools, then Internet Options. Select Security, then select Restricted Sites. The Sites button will become active.. choose that and a window will pop with a list and an entry box. You can enter the name of a site which you'd like to restrict (just the domain name (i.e. 'gamespy.com')) and hit 'add'. I believe wildcard characters are supported ('*.gamespy.com')..
Anyway, once you've filled the list with Flash-dripping sites, hit OK and choose the 'Custom Level' button under the "security settings for this zone". (make sure you're still under Restricted Sites!). From there, you can disable most every irritating browser 'innovation' out there, from Active Scripting (way down at the bottom of the list) to, yes, Flash ("Run ActiveX Controls and Plugins" should do the trick).
To see if the settings actually work, go to the site in question. Two things should happen:
1. Flash shouldn't play if you've turned it off
2. A little red icon will appear in the lower-left bit of the status bar where a globe usually is.
The Comdex page is here. The URL in the article points to a mobile Flash-worshipping site (which does indeed link to the Comdex bit (but is covered in images as well)).
``It's one thing to pass along a video. It's something else to let one person pass along a program to hundreds of people at once,'' a network insider said. ``That could be a violation of our copyright.''
I see no difference. When passed to a friend, the media still has the potential to reach the same number of people. That friend could perhaps copy it for two other people (and they do the same, making the total number of recipients grow exponentially).
I had always assumed that the little chip did something to dynamically change the value of the magstripe (by the way, does anyone know how much data a standard-sized stripe can hold?)..
What's the point of storing data in a little easily-lost plastic sliver when you can instead store it in big redundant mainframes?
I've only tried two flavors of Linux- TurboLinux and Debian...
Getting the Debian CD image was a bit of an adventure (having to use make-pseudo-image and such) but made me feel all warm inside at the end- I'm a usual Windows user so such an experience was new for me. The installer ran perfectly on the test box I set up.. after a few reinstalls (to get the serial module loaded in, I was unaware it wasn't part of the kernel.. I also didn't know how to add modules once Linux was loaded!) I had the box booting into X and such.
I must stress that I've never used Unix before ^_^'
After Debian I decided to try TurboLinux, you know, just to see. For some reason I remember the bootable installer scaring me.. I couldn't really figure out what to do. So, I immediately developed an uninformed opinion on My Favorite Distro..
Er.. I really like apt-get.. but then again, I've never tried rpm..
Just another luser newbie ^_^
How much longer until some idiot encodes an MP3 or other format (maybe even a virus/executable) that contains the type of square wave (and information on how to play) necessary to blow speakers?
If you have the cash (and there's a lot of cash involved), you could buy a motion capture system and write a few interface drivers. You'd get your wish, but you'd be broke afterward.
The article says that the sound "initiates a reaction that makes you instantly turn towards [it]".
If this is true (which I doubt) and the sound forces its way out of your cell phone while in heavy highway traffic, what happens to you and your vehicle when you turn your head from the road to the phone?
It seems that bulbs for these types of projectors are very expensive (for a bulb).. if any of them blew, you lose 1/16th of your image.. if all of them blow, you need to pay 16*whatever-the-bulbs-cost. If the display is on constantly, wouldn't the costs to keep it running go through the roof?
I seem to remember a random bit of information that may or may not be true.. how the ancient Egyptians had the "unfortunate tendency" to write about victories before the battles were actually fought..
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MOOs have been doing the type of thing the article explains for a while now by implementing task permissions based on the credential bits of the executing player object. For programmers, error messages would have to be a lot more thoroughly thought out under SELinux. How to handle a child process not returning data because the user didn't have appropriate permission? And when something like this happens, the entire script halts and tracebacks ^_^
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"If the Duplex LED is flashing this means their has been a collision on your network. This happens when packets are dropped for some reason or the packets have been misdirected. This usually only happens when two computers are using the same IP address and this usually only happens when you specify an IP address rather than using the DHCP feature built in the router."
Network collisions occur when two hosts try to submit simultaneously. The NIC listens for the resulting static on the network line (as static is produced when the signals garble), waits a random length of time, and retransmits. This happens (I believe) at a lower-than-protocol level.
Experts told the Herald Sun the CD-pirating kiosks -- with superior sound quality to home burners and able to outwit anti-copying devices -- will be a winner with older users.
Can someone explain to me how one digital-to-digital bitwise copy mechanism can result in 'superior sound quality' when compared to another mechanism, using the same data?
"The new version will be able to host hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users from throughout the world, thanks to real-time translation in English, French, German, Japanese and Korean, as well as localized servers in select countries, Sony said."
Hee... automatic Engrish. Think they'll be able to pull this off? It must take a very large amount of resources to run the translations.. what about acronyms/shorthand/typos? Will they just pop through? Will the client have to use its own text rendering method to display Unicode characters on lesser operating systems (98-ME)?
But the bulbs cost ~$300 a pop... this would be an expensive display device to keep running. I don't think they're designed for continuous use in mind.
Does anyone know how often LCD projector bulbs need to be replaced?
Working link here (http://people.freenet.de/linar/).
Downloaded LimeWire the other day. When first I ran the program, I remember the auto-protect thing scare the hell out of me when it found a bug it classified as 'backdoor.trojan'. The file was 'dlder.exe', created in a temp directory called 'RarSFX0'.
(from v5.0):
Go to Tools, then Internet Options. Select Security, then select Restricted Sites. The Sites button will become active.. choose that and a window will pop with a list and an entry box. You can enter the name of a site which you'd like to restrict (just the domain name (i.e. 'gamespy.com')) and hit 'add'. I believe wildcard characters are supported ('*.gamespy.com')..
Anyway, once you've filled the list with Flash-dripping sites, hit OK and choose the 'Custom Level' button under the "security settings for this zone". (make sure you're still under Restricted Sites!). From there, you can disable most every irritating browser 'innovation' out there, from Active Scripting (way down at the bottom of the list) to, yes, Flash ("Run ActiveX Controls and Plugins" should do the trick).
To see if the settings actually work, go to the site in question. Two things should happen:
1. Flash shouldn't play if you've turned it off
2. A little red icon will appear in the lower-left bit of the status bar where a globe usually is.
The Comdex page is here. The URL in the article points to a mobile Flash-worshipping site (which does indeed link to the Comdex bit (but is covered in images as well)).
From the article:
``It's one thing to pass along a video. It's something else to let one person pass along a program to hundreds of people at once,'' a network insider said. ``That could be a violation of our copyright.''
I see no difference. When passed to a friend, the media still has the potential to reach the same number of people. That friend could perhaps copy it for two other people (and they do the same, making the total number of recipients grow exponentially).
I had always assumed that the little chip did something to dynamically change the value of the magstripe (by the way, does anyone know how much data a standard-sized stripe can hold?)..
What's the point of storing data in a little easily-lost plastic sliver when you can instead store it in big redundant mainframes?
"I've never seen that happen."
"His body rejected the 'smart card'."
(From the Dilbert of 3/21/97, third panel: after a card flees for its life from the grasp of the pointy-haired boss.)
This article is rather dated. I wonder what kind of developments have been made on the project in the time between 1996 and now?
I've only tried two flavors of Linux- TurboLinux and Debian... Getting the Debian CD image was a bit of an adventure (having to use make-pseudo-image and such) but made me feel all warm inside at the end- I'm a usual Windows user so such an experience was new for me. The installer ran perfectly on the test box I set up.. after a few reinstalls (to get the serial module loaded in, I was unaware it wasn't part of the kernel.. I also didn't know how to add modules once Linux was loaded!) I had the box booting into X and such. I must stress that I've never used Unix before ^_^' After Debian I decided to try TurboLinux, you know, just to see. For some reason I remember the bootable installer scaring me.. I couldn't really figure out what to do. So, I immediately developed an uninformed opinion on My Favorite Distro.. Er.. I really like apt-get.. but then again, I've never tried rpm.. Just another luser newbie ^_^
How much longer until some idiot encodes an MP3 or other format (maybe even a virus/executable) that contains the type of square wave (and information on how to play) necessary to blow speakers?
If you have the cash (and there's a lot of cash involved), you could buy a motion capture system and write a few interface drivers. You'd get your wish, but you'd be broke afterward.
The article says that the sound "initiates a reaction that makes you instantly turn towards [it]". If this is true (which I doubt) and the sound forces its way out of your cell phone while in heavy highway traffic, what happens to you and your vehicle when you turn your head from the road to the phone?
It seems that bulbs for these types of projectors are very expensive (for a bulb).. if any of them blew, you lose 1/16th of your image.. if all of them blow, you need to pay 16*whatever-the-bulbs-cost. If the display is on constantly, wouldn't the costs to keep it running go through the roof?
In both Linux and Windows flavors. I (being lame and all) am running the Windows version now- very very kewl stuff. http://mrl.nyu.edu/projects/image-analogies/lf/
...is at http://linuxvideo.org/, not livid.org as linked.
can be found at http://www.mvis.com/
Dumb, sure, but you can get the full page with images quickly from https://www.uclinux.com/hand-powered_web_server/in dex.html...
I seem to remember a random bit of information that may or may not be true.. how the ancient Egyptians had the "unfortunate tendency" to write about victories before the battles were actually fought..
MOOs have been doing the type of thing the article explains for a while now by implementing task permissions based on the credential bits of the executing player object.
For programmers, error messages would have to be a lot more thoroughly thought out under SELinux. How to handle a child process not returning data because the user didn't have appropriate permission?
And when something like this happens, the entire script halts and tracebacks ^_^
Hrm. I'm not a GTK programmer, so I wouldn't know- how hard would it be to allow an external application to call GTK menus via user-assigned hotkeys?
Why would you want to operate a bitmap-editing program entirely from the keyboard, anyway? Control the brush using LOGO?