This seems like a good on-topic thread in which to mention the freedesktop.org (X.org folks) effort to write a 100% open source 3D driver for the NVidia cards -- nouveau
This seems like a good on-topic thread in which to mention the freedesktop.org (X.org folks) effort to write a 100% open source 3D driver for the NVidia cards -- nouveau
For people who are grabbing the disc image from unofficial sources - can folks who've downloaded it directly from Microsoft post MD5 / SHA1 signatures and filesizes so we can be sure we're all getting the same stuff?
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This is a lot of code to pick apart -- can someone post a concise summary of what can be done with the Apache licensed gwt-user.jar part, versus the "You may not redistribute" parts?
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>>Re:What the shit is with these new ads?
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>>by voice_of_all_reason (926702) on Tuesday April 04, @12:26PM (#15058893)
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>>If you block them, they don't register as being viewed and you keep seeing them every time you try to view your new messages/user panel. Guess those are off limits for me now!
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>Re:What the shit is with these new ads?
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>by Richard Steiner (1585) on Tuesday April 04, @12:29PM (#15058929)
>(http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner | Last Journal: Wednesday March 29, @06:44PM)
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>Wow... That Xerox ad is about the most obnoxious thing I've ever seen. It gets in the way of damn near everything!!
It's worse than that -- if you're using Opera, the Xerox flash ad code jumps the page forward to an empty page containing just the ad... so Slashdot is unreadable with Opera if one of these ads is up -- just an empty page with one ad on it.
ObOn-Topic: I wonder how much market value Apache Harmony may take away from other companies that make JVM's... is it still even possible to use IBM's JVM for free?
Fix spam problems by moving to GMail? O RLY?
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My spam in the past 2 months is less than I had 10 years ago. I post my main address unobfuscated on/. and 25 other public forums. My signal to noise ratio is 100:1. In 5 days I received about 200 real e-mails and 3 spam. I moved all my employees and family to gmail. Try it, you'll love it.
Sounds fantastic.
Except.
GMail has no defenses against spammers who send out their spam-blasts with your GMail address in their forged "From:" field.
I've (twice) opened up tickets with GMail on this issue and gotten no human response. I've posted in the GMail help forum on two different occasions, no response. (I also saw at least two posts per week of people who were having the same issue asking for help/advice -- so it's clearly something they're aware of if they skim those forums.)
Since there are less than 20 file formats for bounce messages in common use (Sendmail's, qmail's, Exim's, etc), it would be trivial for them to flag bounce messages separately -- (they're already flagging phishing messages separately from other spam.) Until they do something, I still get an average of 10 spam a day to my Gmail account. (This started a few months after having the account, when I posted my unobfuscated GMail address on my homepage.)
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That would translate to 9 to 12 hours of space on a traditional DVD with the new codecs, and approximately 27 to 37.5 hours of space on a single layer bluray disc.
You should definately be able to fit a full season of sd content on a blu-ray disc; the question is, does the format permit storing content at sd resolutions?
Thanks for the clarification. I guess it will remain to be seen... The Blu-ray.com FAQ claims 13 hours per 25G BD disk, with no explanations of what codecs they're using.
I'm more interested in hearing when they start packing full seasons of standard-definition content onto a single disc that they can sell for a reasonable price, instead of the >$100 prices that some sets have been going for. (I.e. $338 for CSI on Amazon)
With H.264 encoding allegedly taking up half the space of MPEG-4 ASP/DivX, which itself takes up roughly 1/7th the space of MPEG-2 DVDs (assuming a 650M CD DivX holds the 2hr content of a 4.5GB movie) -- that's 28 hrs of content on a 4.5G DVD, or 140 hrs of content on a 23GB BD disc!)
...and since this is Slashdot, I should mention that if you pick up a BluRay player or buy MPAA movies, you should take up Lessig's challenge and donate an equal amount of money to the EFF... </obYRO>
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Did he create something of actual value? No, of course not.
I disagree. He created a stream of ad-views by popularizing the site that resulted in real word-of-mouth advertising by the pleased purchasers. Only a pity it can't be done reproducibly, as it's a sort of one-off novelty thing.
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It's been mentioned in the Opera forums that if there were sufficient interest, Opera might look into doing a browser for the PSP. I would be delighted to plunk down $30 for an Opera + OpenSSH for the PSP on UMD that would play on older PSP firmware. How many users will make it worth your while?
why isn't there a CTO (Congressional Technology Office)? There's... a non partisan office that exists to advise Congress on budgetary issues... It's unreasonable to expect that all Congresscritters can be knowledgeable techies. They should have a non partisan agency to advise them about these issues
I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, there was such an agency.
The Office of Technology Assessment was such a congressional body, founded in 1972, and it lasted until 1995, when the Gingrich Congress came in, it was disbanded.
Well, there's what banks do with their optical media, which is have the glass master stored in a safe deposit box. A glass master for a DVD costs about $1000 , CD costs about $700. (Googled from http://www.cddvdking.com/ ).
Keep modding parent up. This method he outlined is how http://www.freeplayfoundation.org/ has been giving away crank-powered shortwave radios to kids in poor countries to listen to educational shortwave broadcasts for several years now.
If the manager appropriates your software for his own uses, and locks out all Group 7 access users so you can't prove it, you should come back, late at night, with a forged Group 6 access code, and taunt the company mainframe until it's forced to challenge you to a battle on its own terms.
Then after defeating it, you should get a printout proving the software was originally yours.
I mean, if you consider the possible implications of hrejit nü hrønfar ngornbø hleptic i vrüdenik slahh! Hlah! Nrkramnü, egnem znepi znepi frafnuu fraarg. Ple, ple plehehahrmon!Nkramnu? Nkramnu. Vrreedonfarnu o slan wethnip nkri nar franfor. (n'ktuthnish omo san wanaroomh!)
The Win32 API extension for Win3.1 involved installing "Win32S" extensions -- I stand by asserting that this was the first release of win32 to customers. "Freecell" was the demo app you could use to see if it was functional.
Windows 95 had Explorer, which is what I was referring to, not "versions of Windows that were out in 1995". Explorer had OO features such as the ability to install context menu extensions, and treat directories and virtual folders similarly (as in Control Panel view), so I also stand by the OO statement.
<chant>We believe in one mouse, the rejuvenator all mighty - progenitor of mankind on earth...</chant> Praise be to squeaky.
Wow, the Nicene Creed parodied on Slashdot. I never thought I'd see the day. Congratulations, sir, you've either risen to new hights of or sunk to new lows of parody and blasphemy.
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You win the thread.
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This seems like a good on-topic thread in which to mention the freedesktop.org (X.org folks) effort to write a 100% open source 3D driver for the NVidia cards -- nouveau
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
If you're an owner of an nVidia card, please do all you can to help contribute! They appear to be suprisingly far along.
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This seems like a good on-topic thread in which to mention the freedesktop.org (X.org folks) effort to write a 100% open source 3D driver for the NVidia cards -- nouveau
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
If you're an owner of an nVidia card, please do all you can to help contribute! They appear to be suprisingly far along.
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Slashcode bug # 497457 - unfixed since December 2001 - Go look it up!
Slashcode bug # 497457 - unfixed since December 2001 - Go look it up!
Slashcode bug # 497457 - unfixed since December 2001 - Go look it up!
Slashcode bug # 497457 - unfixed since December 2001 - Go look it up!
Slashcode bug # 497457 - unfixed since December 2001 - Go look it up!
Slashcode bug # 497457 - unfixed since December 2001 - Go look it up!
D'oh. Thanks for the correction.
Slashcode bug # 497457 - unfixed since December 2001 - Go look it up!
Slashcode bug # 497457 - unfixed since December 2001 - Go look it up [sourceforge.net]!
Slashcode bug # 497457 - unfixed since December 2001 - Go look it up!
Slashcode bug # 497457 - unfixed since December 2001 - Go look it up!
Slashcode bug # 497457 - unfixed since December 2001 - Go look it up!
Well, there's what banks do with their optical media, which is have the glass master stored in a safe deposit box. A glass master for a DVD costs about $1000 , CD costs about $700. (Googled from http://www.cddvdking.com/ ).
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Barring that, you can buy TDK professional media ( http://www.tdk.com/professional/ )
Also, googling for Archival CDR reveals a review on the subject by photo.net at http://www.photo.net/mjohnston/column53/, which leads to the $3-a-disk Archival stuff here. http://store.mam-a-store.com/standard---archive-g
Hope this helps.
Keep modding parent up. This method he outlined is how http://www.freeplayfoundation.org/ has been giving away crank-powered shortwave radios to kids in poor countries to listen to educational shortwave broadcasts for several years now.
If the manager appropriates your software for his own uses, and locks out all Group 7 access users so you can't prove it, you should come back, late at night, with a forged Group 6 access code, and taunt the company mainframe until it's forced to challenge you to a battle on its own terms.
Then after defeating it, you should get a printout proving the software was originally yours.