I wasn't the first to discover the licensing issues, but I guess I was the first to report it to SourceForge. Of course I wrote the project maintainer first, asking if they had permission from SF to host the art files. The answer I got from the leader was that it was the other way around - they granted SF the right to distribute all their files... Unfortunately SF has been very slow working with this issue. See https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid= 200001&aid=1054384&group_id=1
Finding a SHA-1 collision would break current versions of BitTorrent. Recent versions identify each piece of the file by its SHA-1 checksum. First the pieces are downloaded out of order, in consecutive order. Then they are reordered based on SHA-1 checksum. If one put two different pieces with same SHA-1 checksum in a file, it is likely that 50% of the time you would end up with an invalid file if transferred over torrent. This could be used to prevent certain files to be transferred over BitTorrent, such as copyrighted files.
If you like me refuse to register with NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/02/science/space/ 02 STRI.html?ex=1063080000&en=dff6c05797550ede&ei=506 2&partner=GOOGLE
Sounds like a cool idea, but I guess it will have to surface every time it wants GPS coordinates? Also, it would probably take at least four-five times longer if you want to keep it reasonable small in size? Plus I don't want to think about what would happen if it ran into some large chunk of sea weed:)
google's link works for us non-registerers
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This might be old news too, but if you search for this article on news.google.com you'll notice that they have a link to the NY Times site that doesn't require registration. The URL has some extra parameters in it, like partner=GOOGLE.
Maybe Slashdot should become a NY Times partner too.:)
Seems like a not entirely uncommon problem. It is interesting hear from others with the same problem.
Anyway, I tried again to locate the problem - now listening inside the box when the noise was made. And I still couldn't find the exact source. It could be coming from the harddrive or the 300W powersupply (it's only a 2x400MHz P2 box with only one harddrive, so it shouldn't really need 300W).
I did a 'strace -f' when running acroread, and it appears that when you drag the mouse a lot of information is shared between it and the X server via some socket. The CPU load is pretty high. So it could very well be the power supply.
My graphics card makes noise too. All I have to do is open up some document in Acrobat Reader (in Linux of course), press the mouse anywhere in the document, and move it up just a pixel or too. Then there is a slight noise coming from something in the computer as long as you hold the mouse button. It sounds kind of like when a hard drive seeks, only muffled. And with very few variations - almost a constant sound.
I know it is not the harddrive that makes the noise (it is much louder), and it is not the fan on the graphics card. It is not a conflict with the sound card (because the sound is produced even with all speakers off). It is not the PC speaker (I disconnected it), but it could be the buzzer on the motherboard (that replaces the speaker when it is disconnected). But it could also be the graphics card. It is a Leadtek NVidia Riva TNT card by the way.
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I wasn't the first to discover the licensing issues, but I guess I was the first to report it to SourceForge. Of course I wrote the project maintainer first, asking if they had permission from SF to host the art files. The answer I got from the leader was that it was the other way around - they granted SF the right to distribute all their files... Unfortunately SF has been very slow working with this issue. See https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid= 200001&aid=1054384&group_id=1
Finding a SHA-1 collision would break current versions of BitTorrent. Recent versions identify each piece of the file by its SHA-1 checksum. First the pieces are downloaded out of order, in consecutive order. Then they are reordered based on SHA-1 checksum. If one put two different pieces with same SHA-1 checksum in a file, it is likely that 50% of the time you would end up with an invalid file if transferred over torrent. This could be used to prevent certain files to be transferred over BitTorrent, such as copyrighted files.
If you like me refuse to register with NYTimes:
/ 02 STRI.html?ex=1063080000&en=dff6c05797550ede&ei=506 2&partner=GOOGLE
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/02/science/space
Sounds like a cool idea, but I guess it will have to surface every time it wants GPS coordinates? Also, it would probably take at least four-five times longer if you want to keep it reasonable small in size? Plus I don't want to think about what would happen if it ran into some large chunk of sea weed :)
This might be old news too, but if you search for this article on news.google.com you'll notice that they have a link to the NY Times site that doesn't require registration. The URL has some extra parameters in it, like partner=GOOGLE.
:)
Maybe Slashdot should become a NY Times partner too.
Does this thing even run Windows? It would be cool if it didn't.
To play this crap in linux:
l ine/lordoftherings/TheTwoTowers-tlr_fs.l.mov"
t
1. wget "http://progressive.stream.aol.com/newline/gl/new
2. Follow instructions on http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/qt-libwine-howto.tx
I'm not sure it will work, but it's worth a try...
Seems like a not entirely uncommon problem. It is interesting hear from others with the same problem.
Anyway, I tried again to locate the problem - now listening inside the box when the noise was made. And I still couldn't find the exact source. It could be coming from the harddrive or the 300W powersupply (it's only a 2x400MHz P2 box with only one harddrive, so it shouldn't really need 300W).
I did a 'strace -f' when running acroread, and it appears that when you drag the mouse a lot of information is shared between it and the X server via some socket. The CPU load is pretty high. So it could very well be the power supply.
My graphics card makes noise too. All I have to do is open up some document in Acrobat Reader (in Linux of course), press the mouse anywhere in the document, and move it up just a pixel or too. Then there is a slight noise coming from something in the computer as long as you hold the mouse button. It sounds kind of like when a hard drive seeks, only muffled. And with very few variations - almost a constant sound.
I know it is not the harddrive that makes the noise (it is much louder), and it is not the fan on the graphics card. It is not a conflict with the sound card (because the sound is produced even with all speakers off). It is not the PC speaker (I disconnected it), but it could be the buzzer on the motherboard (that replaces the speaker when it is disconnected). But it could also be the graphics card. It is a Leadtek NVidia Riva TNT card by the way.