it's funny that somebody else has had the same experience with these ads. i've set my ad blocker to explicity allow absolute ads just cause they're so damn cool. and they must be effective, cause they make me want to drink vodka:)
continuous inking systems allow you to modify your inkjet to use external pressure fed ink bottles. you can buy the ink by the pound(!), and only fill those colors which need refilling. most vendors also offer a range of specialty inks, and archival quality inks if you're a photographer trying to sell the print. google shows me a few like this:
Re:Why the equalizer is fluff.
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the people who recorded it are indeed working with $100k+ sound equipment - you and i however are not. an eq can flatten the response curve to compensate for your consumer grade sound card, speakers, and the resonances of your listening room.
The DVD's he bought in London (Gladiator and AI, two absolutely terrible movies) are not only region locked, they are almost certainly PAL format video. Bypassing the region lock is a pretty trivial task these days on a number of popular DVD players. Bypassing the fact that he has an NTSC television and is trying to view a PAL DVD is going to require some more hardware...
first off, the nature of most of the replies here seems to indicate that slashdot isn't a great place to ask home theater questions. try the home theater forum on the av science forum. basically, what you are going to want is a vga card with the ability to output arbitrary scan rates and resolutions. try the ATI radeon line using software to adjust your scan rates like powerstrip. finally, as one other poster mentioned, you're going to want a vga to component video transcoder, like this or this. with the appropriate video card and the vga transcoder, you'll be able to run native HDTV resolution into pretty much any consumer grade HDTV set.
exciting movie of battling the talking paperclip
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one thing i've found that works wonders in this arena is keeping in mind the aesthetics of the equipment. if you can keep all your nerd gear hidden away, keep the cables tied up and out of site, and keep the big ugly boxes in a closet or a nice rack you'll find that you'll meet with a lot less resistance. girls just don't seem to be as impressed with das blinkenlights as us fellas are, and big black boxes with lots of knobs and buttons probably don't figure into her ideas of home decor. keep your installs and equipment clean and easy on the eyes and she'll have a lot more patience with it.
of course, it doesn't hurt to apply some of your geeky skills towards projects that help her out as well. my s/o is a professional photographer, so making various gadgets to help her with her equipment or repairing broken or flaky equipment gains me a lot of latitude to pursue those things that interest me.
when it all comes down to it, your girl is hopefully worth a lot more to you than the next piece of gear...
first off, thanks for the informative post, i think this is pretty fuggin fascinating - tivo is paying the discovery channel to deliver data services to it's (still rather small) customer base. for this to work i'd imagine the video itself is viewable with your regular cable box, and you post seems to imply this. it'd be intersting to find the specs for this "datacast", especially in respect to the bandwidth it allows. i'd imagine it's a tough job to get data through all the a/d and d/a conversions a typical video broadcast goes through by the time it hits your cable box...
you've got a broken amplifier in the speaker. when you remove power, the speakers are basically running off the power from the soundcard - they won't get very loud, but they'll still work (try plugging a non-powered speaker into your headphone ajack sometime). when you give it power, whatever is broken in the speaker's amp prevents it from working at all.
most switches will only send broadcasts and unknown MACs down ports that haven't learned a MAC yet. however, most decent switches will let you turn one or more ports into monitoring ports that will recieve all packets for sniffing purposes.
actually, the console manufactures have traditionally priced their consoles at or below manufacturing cost for over a decade, starting with the NES. it's a razor and razor blades thing (or ink jet printer and ink refill thing) - lose money on the original unit, then change lots of $$ for the games/razor blades/ink.
the man in michigan's conviction and fine were upheld in an appeal, and then overturned in the subsequent appeal last month - shouting obscenities is indeed free speech, AND I'M FUCKING HAPPY FOR IT!!!
this from: http://www.radlight.com/modules.php?op=modload&nam e=News&file=article&sid=13&mode=thread&order=0&tho ld=0
all terrible spelling and incoherent sentances belong to the original author (obviously)
---- All right, guys
here I'm again. You have posted really good posts. There are intelligent reactions to my hints and I must admit that I have a bit underestimated how powerfull userbase Adaware has.
I'm sure that many of you ask, WHAT WAS THE REASON of KILLING adaware right after each start NOT looking into default directory (like some people think) but using the uninstall registry keys and uninstaller LOG file (this is a hint for adaware developers to make it invisible) ?
Actually, the point was NOT to destroy the adaware:). This is almost impossible. BUT TO SHOW WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF THE PROGRAMS START UNINSTALLING EACHOTHER. As I believe that some of the "spyware" are just reguler legal programs I really feel for their authors to see how their program is being uninstalled. I WANTED ADAWARE TO SEE IT TOO and to revalue their pose to their "enemies". I understand that ads brought by some programs aren't doing the clean job and don't have approprietary uninstalling possibilites and they NEED TO BE REMOVED BY THE HARDEST WAY, but NOT all of them are such rude. When removing legal software (as you say now I remove adaware), having all what polite software should have (polite installer, EULA, Uninstaller and full description), it may be really VERY UNPLEASANT.
They put me on the MOST WANTED list ? Yes, that's what I expected. It is natural and if they didn't do that it would look STRANGE, wouldn't it.
They removed me from CNet ? Oh yes, again, I expected problems but you all must admit that adaware is a "remover" too.
They wanted to send me to all AntiVirus companies ? Heh, detecting a "virus" having EXEPath in regisry and no other files copied in any directory would be pretty easy, don't you think ?
You all are angry on me ? Yes, I expected it. But if I didn't do this and only started to talk about my opinions I would be just SOME ANOTHER GUY SAYING SOME BULLSHIT and ignored (my life-experience with many people). Generaly the people must see the acts first and then they will PERHAPS start thinking more.
The non-adaware-killing RadLight was compiled 5 seconds after the adaware-killing version. I thought that people would find it out immedieately but it took more than a week until they noticed. It will be released immediately and no more software-removing actions will be taken. I can
only hope that Lavasoft will think about the reasons why this happened.
I know i will loose many of users who will ignore my player but It will at least solve my server problems and I may rest for a while.
I can apologize now:)
" I apologize to LavaSoft for all inconviences that happened by my RadLight software when removing the ADAWARE application silently and without users request.
I apologize to all RadLight users who may be disappointed or hurt by these events.
I apologize to all ADAWARE users whose adaware was removed when launched RadLight."
Your indignation is an evidence for me that I succeeded and now, at least the people who read messages on this forum understand how does it feel when YOUR SOFTWARE is being removed.
With friendly regards,
Igor "RadScorpion" Janos ----
i might ad here that slashdot's lameness filter is perpetually lame...
some help
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after wading through 30 posts telling this guy to get rid of it all, i feel i have to pipe in.
i have a weekend hobby doing video performances for parties and clubs. the environments i work in are probably similar to dorm life - dirty and prone to chaos. my setup involves a couple computers, projectors, playback decks, cameras, mix boards, switchers, modulators, amps, midi instruments, the occasional game console and roughly 281 linear miles of cable - all to be connected together, installed in a venue, run all night in a room full of drunken idiots, and torn down again before dawn. in doing this, i've learned a few tricks to deal with the rougly 40-50 connections that need to be made each time i setup.
CABLE TIES ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND
can't say it enough. buy em in bulk. get a couple pair of diagonal cutters to cut them off with. if you have a unit that has 2 or 3 or more cords, ties the cords together every few inches so it can be handled as 1 cord. go to your local hardware or auto parts store and buy some split loom tubing. it's that bendy plastic tubing with a slit run down the length of it that covers all the wires under your car's hood. if you are planning on it being semi-permanent, but still easily removeable, staple cable ties into the wall and afix your wires to the mop boards with those ties. and when you're not using a particular cable, wrap it up in a loop, cable tie it, and throw it in a box or bag. if every cable in that box is cable tied, you'll never have to deal with the rats nest it will otherwise certainly become.
if it's a complicated setup, and you have the time, try labling both ends of every cable. you can get a good and cheap label printer from target for $20. label the jacks the cable will plug into while you're at it so you'll be able to do it in the dark (or by black light, strobe lights, or bic lighters).
buy yourself a nice switch unit to run the whole thing. either a decent receiver or an outboard switch will allow you to have one source or one destination for every cable. i ebayed myself a 10x10 av switch for $100, but i'm running quite a few outputs in addition to inputs. having enough inputs will also prevent the frequent reconfigurations that take your nice cable setup and turn it back into the spaghetti it wants to be.
and i couldn't go without mentioning this site showing you how to cheaply make great looking and great performing audio and video cables. you can make cables 10 times nicer than monster cable for 1/10th the price.
first, with 4000 hosts you already know that you can throw out any system that names each server according to some mnemonic theme (rock stars, tolkein characters, etc). if you're running a data center of that scale chances are you've already learned the value of a "lights out" center, where all access is remote access. in this environment including things like rack numbers is probably pointless. think about who is accessing these machines, and how they refer to them. are you hosting this data center for outside clients? try starting with their company's name, stock ticker symbol, customer #, etc. if you're running a data center for one corporate entity, the users might differentiate them by user location, department, application, or OS. start the name with that bit of info the user most closely associates with the machine itself and work your way down the list. you are almost certainly going to need an incrementing uniqueness field (01, 02, etc) tacked onto the end.
of course, this is completely ignoring the political ramifications over host naming, where some depts (or worse yet, aquired companies) demand some differentiation of "their" boxen over everybody else's lowly systems....
FWIW, i note that your understanding of copyright law in the IRC log is a little off. you claim that you need to go after alterslash to protect your copyright, but that's not true. copyrights and patents can be selectivly enforced for the duration of the right because they have a set duration. you're probably thinking of trademarks, which must be actively defended. while you do need to re-register trademarks periodically (the interval escapes me at the moment), you can hold a trademark indefinately.
of course, your friendly local congressperson is more than happy to grant what is essentially becoming indefinate copyrights in the form of endless extensions to the time period granted. for just a few campaign dollars, that is...
i'd recommend taking a look at the proxomitron if these sorts fo things annoy you. not quite as user friendly as the junkbuster, but much more configurable, and free as in beer.
If you're a windows user, try the Proxomitron. It's a free (as in beer) local web proxy that lets you use a regular-expression-like matching syntax to make your web experience a happier one.
let me echo this point - get a good SAN device (emc being the best choice imho), and let it do point in time snapshots of your DBMS - then mount the PIT image as a R/O device, and you can take as long as you want to back it up.
the smartcards themselves have microcode that they execute on them. directv ("dave" to dss hackers) periodically sends updates to the cards in order to stomp out service theft - patches are usually to be found within 12 hours though:)
Slashdot Mirror
it's funny that somebody else has had the same experience with these ads. i've set my ad blocker to explicity allow absolute ads just cause they're so damn cool. and they must be effective, cause they make me want to drink vodka :)
continuous inking systems allow you to modify your inkjet to use external pressure fed ink bottles. you can buy the ink by the pound(!), and only fill those colors which need refilling. most vendors also offer a range of specialty inks, and archival quality inks if you're a photographer trying to sell the print. google shows me a few like this:
http://www.getink.com
http://www.inkjetart.com/cis/index.html
http://www.nomorecarts.com
http://mediastreet.com/n2
the people who recorded it are indeed working with $100k+ sound equipment - you and i however are not. an eq can flatten the response curve to compensate for your consumer grade sound card, speakers, and the resonances of your listening room.
The DVD's he bought in London (Gladiator and AI, two absolutely terrible movies) are not only region locked, they are almost certainly PAL format video. Bypassing the region lock is a pretty trivial task these days on a number of popular DVD players. Bypassing the fact that he has an NTSC television and is trying to view a PAL DVD is going to require some more hardware...
first off, the nature of most of the replies here seems to indicate that slashdot isn't a great place to ask home theater questions. try the home theater forum on the av science forum. basically, what you are going to want is a vga card with the ability to output arbitrary scan rates and resolutions. try the ATI radeon line using software to adjust your scan rates like powerstrip. finally, as one other poster mentioned, you're going to want a vga to component video transcoder, like this or this. with the appropriate video card and the vga transcoder, you'll be able to run native HDTV resolution into pretty much any consumer grade HDTV set.
http://www.salmondays.tv/downloads/paper_clip.mpg
from salmon days, the register's on line tv show adaptation of the bofh (bastard operator from hell, but you knew that anyway)...
one thing i've found that works wonders in this arena is keeping in mind the aesthetics of the equipment. if you can keep all your nerd gear hidden away, keep the cables tied up and out of site, and keep the big ugly boxes in a closet or a nice rack you'll find that you'll meet with a lot less resistance. girls just don't seem to be as impressed with das blinkenlights as us fellas are, and big black boxes with lots of knobs and buttons probably don't figure into her ideas of home decor. keep your installs and equipment clean and easy on the eyes and she'll have a lot more patience with it.
of course, it doesn't hurt to apply some of your geeky skills towards projects that help her out as well. my s/o is a professional photographer, so making various gadgets to help her with her equipment or repairing broken or flaky equipment gains me a lot of latitude to pursue those things that interest me.
when it all comes down to it, your girl is hopefully worth a lot more to you than the next piece of gear...
first off, thanks for the informative post, i think this is pretty fuggin fascinating - tivo is paying the discovery channel to deliver data services to it's (still rather small) customer base. for this to work i'd imagine the video itself is viewable with your regular cable box, and you post seems to imply this. it'd be intersting to find the specs for this "datacast", especially in respect to the bandwidth it allows. i'd imagine it's a tough job to get data through all the a/d and d/a conversions a typical video broadcast goes through by the time it hits your cable box...
congratulations, you've just discovered occam's razor.
you've got a broken amplifier in the speaker. when you remove power, the speakers are basically running off the power from the soundcard - they won't get very loud, but they'll still work (try plugging a non-powered speaker into your headphone ajack sometime). when you give it power, whatever is broken in the speaker's amp prevents it from working at all.
which is the reason for the RF converter - you'll lose some signal quality, but the resulting signal is macrovision-free.
most switches will only send broadcasts and unknown MACs down ports that haven't learned a MAC yet. however, most decent switches will let you turn one or more ports into monitoring ports that will recieve all packets for sniffing purposes.
actually, the console manufactures have traditionally priced their consoles at or below manufacturing cost for over a decade, starting with the NES. it's a razor and razor blades thing (or ink jet printer and ink refill thing) - lose money on the original unit, then change lots of $$ for the games/razor blades/ink.
that would prove that it's a learned behavior, not an evolutionary behavior.
FWIW - you can do what you suggest in NT, but it's easier just to rename the Administrator account to something innocuous.
the man in michigan's conviction and fine were upheld in an appeal, and then overturned in the subsequent appeal last month - shouting obscenities is indeed free speech, AND I'M FUCKING HAPPY FOR IT!!!
o ns / inal/coa/20020329_c225747(55)_225747.opn.pdf
http://courtofappeals.mijud.net/documents/opini
this from: http://www.radlight.com/modules.php?op=modload&nam e=News&file=article&sid=13&mode=thread&order=0&tho ld=0
:). This is almost impossible. BUT TO SHOW WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF THE PROGRAMS START UNINSTALLING EACHOTHER. As I believe that some of the "spyware" are just reguler legal programs I really feel for their authors to see how their program is being uninstalled. I WANTED ADAWARE TO SEE IT TOO and to revalue their pose to their "enemies". I understand that ads brought by some programs aren't doing the clean job and don't have approprietary uninstalling possibilites and they NEED TO BE REMOVED BY THE HARDEST WAY, but NOT all of them are such rude. When removing legal software (as you say now I remove adaware), having all what polite software should have (polite installer, EULA, Uninstaller and full description), it may be really VERY UNPLEASANT.
:)
all terrible spelling and incoherent sentances belong to the original author (obviously)
----
All right, guys
here I'm again. You have posted really good posts. There are intelligent reactions to my hints and I must admit that I have a bit underestimated how powerfull userbase Adaware has.
I'm sure that many of you ask, WHAT WAS THE REASON of KILLING adaware right after each start NOT looking into default directory (like some people think) but using the uninstall registry keys and uninstaller LOG file (this is a hint for adaware developers to make it invisible) ?
Actually, the point was NOT to destroy the adaware
They put me on the MOST WANTED list ? Yes, that's what I expected. It is natural and if they didn't do that it would look STRANGE, wouldn't it.
They removed me from CNet ? Oh yes, again, I expected problems but you all must admit that adaware is a "remover" too.
They wanted to send me to all AntiVirus companies ? Heh, detecting a "virus" having EXEPath in regisry and no other files copied in any directory would be pretty easy, don't you think ?
You all are angry on me ? Yes, I expected it. But if I didn't do this and only started to talk about my opinions I would be just SOME ANOTHER GUY SAYING SOME BULLSHIT and ignored (my life-experience with many people). Generaly the people must see the acts first and then they will PERHAPS start thinking more.
The non-adaware-killing RadLight was compiled 5 seconds after the adaware-killing version. I thought that people would find it out immedieately but it took more than a week until they noticed. It will be released immediately and no more software-removing actions will be taken. I can
only hope that Lavasoft will think about the reasons why this happened.
I know i will loose many of users who will ignore my player but It will at least solve my server problems and I may rest for a while.
I can apologize now
" I apologize to LavaSoft for all inconviences that happened by my RadLight software when removing the ADAWARE application silently and without users request.
I apologize to all RadLight users who may be disappointed or hurt by these events.
I apologize to all ADAWARE users whose adaware was removed when launched RadLight."
Your indignation is an evidence for me that I succeeded and now, at least the people who read messages on this forum understand how does it feel when YOUR SOFTWARE is being removed.
With friendly regards,
Igor "RadScorpion" Janos
----
i might ad here that slashdot's lameness filter is perpetually lame...
after wading through 30 posts telling this guy to get rid of it all, i feel i have to pipe in.
i have a weekend hobby doing video performances for parties and clubs. the environments i work in are probably similar to dorm life - dirty and prone to chaos. my setup involves a couple computers, projectors, playback decks, cameras, mix boards, switchers, modulators, amps, midi instruments, the occasional game console and roughly 281 linear miles of cable - all to be connected together, installed in a venue, run all night in a room full of drunken idiots, and torn down again before dawn. in doing this, i've learned a few tricks to deal with the rougly 40-50 connections that need to be made each time i setup.
CABLE TIES ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND
can't say it enough. buy em in bulk. get a couple pair of diagonal cutters to cut them off with. if you have a unit that has 2 or 3 or more cords, ties the cords together every few inches so it can be handled as 1 cord. go to your local hardware or auto parts store and buy some split loom tubing. it's that bendy plastic tubing with a slit run down the length of it that covers all the wires under your car's hood. if you are planning on it being semi-permanent, but still easily removeable, staple cable ties into the wall and afix your wires to the mop boards with those ties. and when you're not using a particular cable, wrap it up in a loop, cable tie it, and throw it in a box or bag. if every cable in that box is cable tied, you'll never have to deal with the rats nest it will otherwise certainly become.
if it's a complicated setup, and you have the time, try labling both ends of every cable. you can get a good and cheap label printer from target for $20. label the jacks the cable will plug into while you're at it so you'll be able to do it in the dark (or by black light, strobe lights, or bic lighters).
buy yourself a nice switch unit to run the whole thing. either a decent receiver or an outboard switch will allow you to have one source or one destination for every cable. i ebayed myself a 10x10 av switch for $100, but i'm running quite a few outputs in addition to inputs. having enough inputs will also prevent the frequent reconfigurations that take your nice cable setup and turn it back into the spaghetti it wants to be.
and i couldn't go without mentioning this site showing you how to cheaply make great looking and great performing audio and video cables. you can make cables 10 times nicer than monster cable for 1/10th the price.
first, with 4000 hosts you already know that you can throw out any system that names each server according to some mnemonic theme (rock stars, tolkein characters, etc). if you're running a data center of that scale chances are you've already learned the value of a "lights out" center, where all access is remote access. in this environment including things like rack numbers is probably pointless. think about who is accessing these machines, and how they refer to them. are you hosting this data center for outside clients? try starting with their company's name, stock ticker symbol, customer #, etc. if you're running a data center for one corporate entity, the users might differentiate them by user location, department, application, or OS. start the name with that bit of info the user most closely associates with the machine itself and work your way down the list. you are almost certainly going to need an incrementing uniqueness field (01, 02, etc) tacked onto the end.
of course, this is completely ignoring the political ramifications over host naming, where some depts (or worse yet, aquired companies) demand some differentiation of "their" boxen over everybody else's lowly systems....
FWIW, i note that your understanding of copyright law in the IRC log is a little off. you claim that you need to go after alterslash to protect your copyright, but that's not true. copyrights and patents can be selectivly enforced for the duration of the right because they have a set duration. you're probably thinking of trademarks, which must be actively defended. while you do need to re-register trademarks periodically (the interval escapes me at the moment), you can hold a trademark indefinately.
of course, your friendly local congressperson is more than happy to grant what is essentially becoming indefinate copyrights in the form of endless extensions to the time period granted. for just a few campaign dollars, that is...
i'd recommend taking a look at the proxomitron if these sorts fo things annoy you. not quite as user friendly as the junkbuster, but much more configurable, and free as in beer.
Sick of ACs spamming /. w/ page widening scripts?
If you're a windows user, try the Proxomitron. It's a free (as in beer) local web proxy that lets you use a regular-expression-like matching syntax to make your web experience a happier one.
The program
and then get the slashdot anti-page-widener code from:
The filter
i think every perl script i've ever written also meets these same criteria. without a perl interpreter, my code has no functionality on it's own.
of course, binary compiled code might even be thought of in the same light without the handy help of my OS "application" that lets it run...
short answer, then: "ask slashdot" is a lousy place to get legal advice.
let me echo this point - get a good SAN device (emc being the best choice imho), and let it do point in time snapshots of your DBMS - then mount the PIT image as a R/O device, and you can take as long as you want to back it up.
the smartcards themselves have microcode that they execute on them. directv ("dave" to dss hackers) periodically sends updates to the cards in order to stomp out service theft - patches are usually to be found within 12 hours though :)