I have my Matrox driver working now. The new Matrox drivers work very well. (I even have the agpgart code working in the 2.2.x kernels.)
My frustration with XiG needs to be clarified though.
They charge too much for a product that I can get elsewhere for free or near free. (All I really needed was dual monitor support anyways. The rest worked fine right out of the box.)
They are nasty and churlish in reguards to other members of the Open Source community who compete with them.
Both good reasons to have nothing to do with them.
I looked into their products when I was looking for a driver for my Matrox G400 Max card a number of months ago. They had one, but their marketing spiel was so NEGATIVE that I refused to buy anything from them. (Not to mention that they wanted about $200 for a driver to run my card and it appeared like I would have to spend alot more to get everything I use running.)
Their web site touts their implementation of OpenGL, not by giving you reasons as to why to buy it, but by slamming the Mesa people over and over. (As well as blaming the Mesa people for XiG's bad choices in naming of their libraries for OpenGL.) Seriously nasty and distateful stuff.
Judging by the other things I have heard out of their marketing department, I don't want anything to do with them. (Especially if they break Gnome and KDE libraries to make CDE code work. How much of a default Redhat install with work after you do that? Not much I would guess.)
A friend of mine uses a RAM disk for his Netscape cache. It saves him the trouble of having to clear the cache out manually on every boot. (He is on a Mac.) I have been considering doing something similar on my Linux box, but too many things are already needing to be done.
If you are supposed to inform them of anyone who is linking to a site that links to DeCSS and so on, then do so.
Write a web crawler that looks for everone linking to X site. Then search for everyone linking to everyone who links to those site and so on. When you hit the threshold amount of your mail server (say 4-5 megs), send it to them and keep going.
Fairly soon, they will find out just how big that number is.
"What do you mean the MPAA is suing the *entire* Internet?"
The current head of the US Patent office used to work for a law firm dealing in intelectual property and patent law. (A company whos job it was to get abusive patents like these approved.)
It is quite obvious that there is a severe conflict of interest going on here. The process as it now stands is not designed to be "fair" or "rational" or do anything else but make money for IP lawyers.
It is time to replace the person in charge of the patent office.
I have seen this sort of political pandering before. The same sort of thing was tried in Longview Washington almost 10 years ago. It lasted a couple of months and then people forgot about it.
It accomplished nothing.
These sort of "quick fixes" get proposed all the time. You see much more of them during political prostitution season. The various leaders need to show that they are "doing something for the community". Of course, the electorate is shallow enough to not question if this will have any effect on youth violence.
If you can find it (and it has not been banned by the local authoritarians), check out back issues of a small press magazine called ""Murder Can Be Fun". They do research into the more morbid parts of history. One of the issues was on youth violence. What they published goes counter to everything we are told about the causes of todays violent youth. The nasty little monsters of yesteryear would give any of the current gangsterbrats a run for their money.
The reason few use IDEA is because of the uncertanty of the patent issues. It seems to be very secure, but since there is no clear indication of who to pay and how much, people tend to avoid it. (Especially for free products, where you are not making any money off of it anyways.)
The only use I have seen of IDEA lately is in products that are ignoring patents all together.
I have a private home network as it is. I just use non-routable IPs. I gateway out when I need to. When I get DSL, I will just install a firewall and NAT.
All this seems to provide is another way from companies to sell me something I already have.
I think Mr. Valenti also harbors the view that rememberering the film afterwards is a violation of intelectual property rights. (Storage of the movie in a form other than that in which it was delivered.)
In the future, patrons will be required to have their memories erased opon leaving the theatre in order to preserve "Intelectual Property Rights".
The reason that you do not see many implementations of the AES cyphers is that they have not been around for very long. The industry has not had a whole lot of time to beat on them. 3DES, on the other hand, has had a number of people hammering on it for a decade or two and it known to be quite secure. FEAL has had people hammering on it for years and is known to be much weaker. (IDEA is secure, but has serious patent problems.)
The reason you see so many implementations of Blowfish is that it has been hammered on for a while. The few problems with it have been fixed. It is fast. Most of all, it is FREE. It does not have the nasty little patent problems that many of the other algorithms have. Twofish will have the same status after it withstands the blows of cryptographers for a few more years.
I also suspect that another reason for the lack of adoption of AES canidates is that people are waiting to see which one comes out on top. Never underesitmate the power of buzzword complience in the minds of management.
Back when I was a poor and struggling programmer, I purchaced my first Intel-based system with a tax return check. This was in the middle of a chip embargo so prices were sky high.
Well, I had enough to buy the main system (A 10mhz 8086), but not enough for the monitor.
My solution turned out to be more expensive than the original monitor.
I found a monochrome monitor without an external case at a local electronics store. (Whacky Willies in Portland,OR. They deal in used equiptment and just generally STRANGE stuff.) I tried a couple of solutions for cases (including foil covered cardboard and other tacky looking disasters), but nothing worked.
I then decided to use Legos.
Do you know how many buckets it takes to build a monitor case? I must have spent over $100 in lego over the next few months. And you have to glue them together because the heat causes the whole thing to expand and come apart at inappropreate spots.
I finished it off and used the monitor for a number of months until general fear of radiation burns drove me to buy a real monitor. (This thing was pretty nasty. It was an early green screen that you could practically feel the radiation off the front. Probably why it only cost me $5.)
I still have the monitor in a box in the computer room. It needs some repair after being moved a number of times, but it might even work. Someday I will have to post pictures...
People might think twice before becoming associated with Scientology after seeing this mess-terpiece. The only thing more bizzare and incomprehensible is "Scientology 8-8008". (Think of "Transylvania 6-5000" applied to Matter, Space, Energy and Time.) For a group of people who claim to have found "the way", you would think that could be a bit more Clear(tm) about it. (But then again, maybe the movie is what was left after the Cult's lawyers got through with it.)
Send random pages to various people at odd hours of the night with victim's phone number as the reply. (Some pager systems allow e-mail pages. This allows for AT or Cron jobs.)
I have found that there are a great number of people who get motion sickness with 3D games (especially those with full x/y/z rotation) only when they are not playing. When they are playing, they are fine (or last a lot longer). When they are jot playing and just looking over someone's shoulder, they get ill quite quickly. I think it has to do with perspective (since they are not centered on the action) and the fact that they cannot control the viewpoint. They are just along for the ride.
Not certain if there is anything that can be done for it. It is a byproduct of the motion on the screen. (It would also be interesting to see if refresh rate is a factor here.)
Why does this mouse sound like something from a David Cronenburg movie? Rub is here to make it purr. Next thing you know they will have one that vibrates. (It would go well with the iBrator.)
Knowing how well the touchpad on my laptop works, I consider this an incredibly silly and unworkable idea. ("No! I did not mean to click on that! AUGH!")
The fondle aspects are going to evoke alot of iPorn jokes.
The Sun 3/50 they showed is not the sturdiest built Sun box either. My Sun 670MP is much bigger and has more boards. (It is also on wheels. The thing is like an end-table on steroids.) You could probably put a couple of clips into it before getting anything to go through. (If at all.)
I was given the machine from work. I live in an old house with very high ceilings. The first thing I used it for was to change a light bulb. (I now have Redhat 6.2 on it, but I needed a sturdy platform at the time and it was there...)
Reminds me that I have a bunch of old PC equiptment that needs to be taken out and shot.
alter the virus to make the porn site the default page for the browser, not just add a desktop link.
Maybe if Bill gets his default page set to "Naughty Barnyard Nyphos" a few times he will pay more attention to security.
It was kind of expected...
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How can *ANY* internet sales company survive in the UK? The VAT tax is going to eat any and all profit margin they have and then some. Why buy from some country that is going to slap on 20%+ onto the price when you can just go to another, more tax friendly, country?
Unfortunatly, the British are so used to the VAT that they cannot see just how much it is holding them back.
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I have my Matrox driver working now. The new Matrox drivers work very well. (I even have the agpgart code working in the 2.2.x kernels.)
My frustration with XiG needs to be clarified though.
They charge too much for a product that I can get elsewhere for free or near free. (All I really needed was dual monitor support anyways. The rest worked fine right out of the box.)
They are nasty and churlish in reguards to other members of the Open Source community who compete with them.
Both good reasons to have nothing to do with them.
I looked into their products when I was looking for a driver for my Matrox G400 Max card a number of months ago. They had one, but their marketing spiel was so NEGATIVE that I refused to buy anything from them. (Not to mention that they wanted about $200 for a driver to run my card and it appeared like I would have to spend alot more to get everything I use running.)
Their web site touts their implementation of OpenGL, not by giving you reasons as to why to buy it, but by slamming the Mesa people over and over. (As well as blaming the Mesa people for XiG's bad choices in naming of their libraries for OpenGL.) Seriously nasty and distateful stuff.
Judging by the other things I have heard out of their marketing department, I don't want anything to do with them. (Especially if they break Gnome and KDE libraries to make CDE code work. How much of a default Redhat install with work after you do that? Not much I would guess.)
A friend of mine uses a RAM disk for his Netscape cache. It saves him the trouble of having to clear the cache out manually on every boot. (He is on a Mac.) I have been considering doing something similar on my Linux box, but too many things are already needing to be done.
I have been waiting to get a color palm, so I could make a furry case for it.
Something about having a hairy palm pilot capable of viewing porn...
I always just wanted the case.
It would make a cool couch/refrigerator combination! No living room should be without one.
The real thing would eat up my entire paycheck just in power usage alone. Might help heat the house though...
If you are supposed to inform them of anyone who is linking to a site that links to DeCSS and so on, then do so.
Write a web crawler that looks for everone linking to X site. Then search for everyone linking to everyone who links to those site and so on. When you hit the threshold amount of your mail server (say 4-5 megs), send it to them and keep going.
Fairly soon, they will find out just how big that number is.
"What do you mean the MPAA is suing the *entire* Internet?"
The current head of the US Patent office used to work for a law firm dealing in intelectual property and patent law. (A company whos job it was to get abusive patents like these approved.)
It is quite obvious that there is a severe conflict of interest going on here. The process as it now stands is not designed to be "fair" or "rational" or do anything else but make money for IP lawyers.
It is time to replace the person in charge of the patent office.
Most of all, kids.
I have seen this sort of political pandering before. The same sort of thing was tried in Longview Washington almost 10 years ago. It lasted a couple of months and then people forgot about it.
It accomplished nothing.
These sort of "quick fixes" get proposed all the time. You see much more of them during political prostitution season. The various leaders need to show that they are "doing something for the community". Of course, the electorate is shallow enough to not question if this will have any effect on youth violence.
If you can find it (and it has not been banned by the local authoritarians), check out back issues of a small press magazine called ""Murder Can Be Fun". They do research into the more morbid parts of history. One of the issues was on youth violence. What they published goes counter to everything we are told about the causes of todays violent youth. The nasty little monsters of yesteryear would give any of the current gangsterbrats a run for their money.
I think that Mulder's replacement should be Kyle MacLaughlin in drag.
Hey, it worked for the second season of Twin Peaks!
The reason few use IDEA is because of the uncertanty of the patent issues. It seems to be very secure, but since there is no clear indication of who to pay and how much, people tend to avoid it. (Especially for free products, where you are not making any money off of it anyways.)
The only use I have seen of IDEA lately is in products that are ignoring patents all together.
I have a private home network as it is. I just use non-routable IPs. I gateway out when I need to. When I get DSL, I will just install a firewall and NAT.
All this seems to provide is another way from companies to sell me something I already have.
Is there something here I am missing?
I think Mr. Valenti also harbors the view that rememberering the film afterwards is a violation of intelectual property rights. (Storage of the movie in a form other than that in which it was delivered.)
In the future, patrons will be required to have their memories erased opon leaving the theatre in order to preserve "Intelectual Property Rights".
The reason that you do not see many implementations of the AES cyphers is that they have not been around for very long. The industry has not had a whole lot of time to beat on them. 3DES, on the other hand, has had a number of people hammering on it for a decade or two and it known to be quite secure. FEAL has had people hammering on it for years and is known to be much weaker. (IDEA is secure, but has serious patent problems.)
The reason you see so many implementations of Blowfish is that it has been hammered on for a while. The few problems with it have been fixed. It is fast. Most of all, it is FREE. It does not have the nasty little patent problems that many of the other algorithms have. Twofish will have the same status after it withstands the blows of cryptographers for a few more years.
I also suspect that another reason for the lack of adoption of AES canidates is that people are waiting to see which one comes out on top. Never underesitmate the power of buzzword complience in the minds of management.
Back when I was a poor and struggling programmer, I purchaced my first Intel-based system with a tax return check. This was in the middle of a chip embargo so prices were sky high.
Well, I had enough to buy the main system (A 10mhz 8086), but not enough for the monitor.
My solution turned out to be more expensive than the original monitor.
I found a monochrome monitor without an external case at a local electronics store. (Whacky Willies in Portland,OR. They deal in used equiptment and just generally STRANGE stuff.) I tried a couple of solutions for cases (including foil covered cardboard and other tacky looking disasters), but nothing worked.
I then decided to use Legos.
Do you know how many buckets it takes to build a monitor case? I must have spent over $100 in lego over the next few months. And you have to glue them together because the heat causes the whole thing to expand and come apart at inappropreate spots.
I finished it off and used the monitor for a number of months until general fear of radiation burns drove me to buy a real monitor. (This thing was pretty nasty. It was an early green screen that you could practically feel the radiation off the front. Probably why it only cost me $5.)
I still have the monitor in a box in the computer room. It needs some repair after being moved a number of times, but it might even work. Someday I will have to post pictures...
When you boot Redhat 6.2 for Sparc with a serial console, the following message shows up after the serial driver initializes:
"And remember that cereal is a part of a good breakfast."
Macro: int ED
The experienced user will know what is wrong.
Macro: int EGREGIOUS
You did what?
Macro: int EIEIO
Go home and have a glass of warm, dairy-fresh milk.
Macro: int EGRATUITOUS
This error code has no purpose.
People might think twice before becoming associated with Scientology after seeing this mess-terpiece. The only thing more bizzare and incomprehensible is "Scientology 8-8008". (Think of "Transylvania 6-5000" applied to Matter, Space, Energy and Time.) For a group of people who claim to have found "the way", you would think that could be a bit more Clear(tm) about it. (But then again, maybe the movie is what was left after the Cult's lawyers got through with it.)
I wanted them to break up Bill Gates. (Via the four horse method.)
So when do the purjury trials start?
This reminds me alot of a nasty little prank.
Get the home phone number of someone you hate.
Find a bank of pager numbers.
Send random pages to various people at odd hours of the night with victim's phone number as the reply. (Some pager systems allow e-mail pages. This allows for AT or Cron jobs.)
Repeat as needed.
I have found that there are a great number of people who get motion sickness with 3D games (especially those with full x/y/z rotation) only when they are not playing. When they are playing, they are fine (or last a lot longer). When they are jot playing and just looking over someone's shoulder, they get ill quite quickly. I think it has to do with perspective (since they are not centered on the action) and the fact that they cannot control the viewpoint. They are just along for the ride.
Not certain if there is anything that can be done for it. It is a byproduct of the motion on the screen. (It would also be interesting to see if refresh rate is a factor here.)
If you can't handle it, don't watch.
Knowing how well the touchpad on my laptop works, I consider this an incredibly silly and unworkable idea. ("No! I did not mean to click on that! AUGH!")
The fondle aspects are going to evoke alot of iPorn jokes.
The Sun 3/50 they showed is not the sturdiest built Sun box either. My Sun 670MP is much bigger and has more boards. (It is also on wheels. The thing is like an end-table on steroids.) You could probably put a couple of clips into it before getting anything to go through. (If at all.)
I was given the machine from work. I live in an old house with very high ceilings. The first thing I used it for was to change a light bulb. (I now have Redhat 6.2 on it, but I needed a sturdy platform at the time and it was there...)
Reminds me that I have a bunch of old PC equiptment that needs to be taken out and shot.
It is like a typo, only smaller.
alter the virus to make the porn site the default page for the browser, not just add a desktop link.
Maybe if Bill gets his default page set to "Naughty Barnyard Nyphos" a few times he will pay more attention to security.
How can *ANY* internet sales company survive in the UK? The VAT tax is going to eat any and all profit margin they have and then some. Why buy from some country that is going to slap on 20%+ onto the price when you can just go to another, more tax friendly, country?
Unfortunatly, the British are so used to the VAT that they cannot see just how much it is holding them back.