Bought this CD a couple days ago and cdparanoia worked fine on it with no hitches... Of course, the article says something about Germany, so maybe the US releases aren't copy protected.
But then what's the point? Just seems like extra incentive for Germans to wait on buying this CD until someone else in the US buys it, rips it, and posts it online... The music industry just loses sales and gains nothing.
My father owned an apartment complex with a pay phone on site in front. One day the phone company calls him up on the pay phone and tells him that instead of paying him a 17% of the phone sales money each month, they are going to charge $10/month for the convience of having a pay phone onsite. Flabbergasted, he called the Arizona Corporation Commission. Just over 3 minutes after his call to the CC, the phone company calls back and says that they aren't going to make any changes to his pay phone agreement afterall...
In Oregon, he bought a piece of land and wanted to get it hooked up to power. It had been unused for so long before that the power lines that used to supply it no longer could be used. The power company told him he had to buy new wires, pay them $6K, and the wires he just bought would become property of the power company. Dumbfounded, he didn't do anything for a week and then remembered the phone problem above from years ago. He went back to the power company and just -mentioned- the Utilities Commission and suddenly they decided to lower the fee to $1K (never even actually went to the Utilities Commission).
Why the hell not? Machine A grabs a huge chunk of keyspace off of the main server. Machine B takes a subportion of the keyspace from Machine A. Machine C takes a subportion of keyspace from Machine D, ad nauseum. When a machine completes the checking of its key blocks, it reports it back to the machine it was acquired from for consolidation. When the main server hears back from Machine A, it is a tiny packet saying keys in this entire range have all been checked and returned negative. One small packet instead of hundreds from each of the individual machines that actually processed them.
This is only one simple configuration for example purposes.
You're still gonna need a host, but the bandwidth required will be nothing.
I have it in the trunk jacked into the plug that would otherwise be used for a CD changer. I had to build a CD changer protocol interface board and it's been a real pain since VW doesn't document it (AFAIK). But now it works, and works well. Currently I'm running the protocol interface through my EZ-USB Protoboard, but now that I've got the protocol pretty well reverse engineered I think I'm gonna port the code to a cheap little PIC16F84 or something.
Yes, Zahn is still dead, although that Stark guy keeps going on as if she's still around a little and perhaps they'll get her back eventually.
Yes, last season was a little on the depressing side, but at least we got to see Aeryn get it on with that guy from Earth several times. Claudia Black, mmmmm yum!
They DO have a few victories though. Remember the shadow depository they obliverated? They now have all the money they could need. They are making progress, but they have to drag us through two more seasons before they can declare victory over the galaxy.:-)
Right click on My Computer. Select Properties. Click the "Advanced" tab. Click the Startup and Recovery Settings button. Uncheck the Automatically restart on system failure checkbox. Tada!
With a little luck this will hit about 3 years after the baby boomers create a second great depression by retiring..:)
No, baby boomers retiring should free up jobs, not make them more scarce. Plus, retired baby boomers will probably be busy consuming goods such as motorhomes and other retirement toys, creating new jobs.
Retired baby boomers may cause inflation, since there may be more people (dollars) chasing goods than people producing them (limited goods). But I fail to see how they could create the severe deflation that marks the great depression.
That is much of an excuse. ISPs should start pushing for more IPv6 adoption if this is their real limitation.
Besides, I don't buy your assertion that IPv4 space is THAT tight. My ISP does provide real routable IP addresses as an option for $10/month extra. Its just that most people aren't gonna understand the issues and never bother to sign up for real IPs.
I can fully understand ISPs throttling people's P2P transfers to save some Internet bandwidth. But I also think they ought to be more selective and allow full bandwidth between customers of their own network since this essentially doesn't cost them anything.
I mean, think about it... Everybody in your city connects back to the cable company's head end office where they are all trunked together using the cable company's high speed local area network equipment. Traffic that only goes between people in the same city doesn't need to go through the Internet at all.
People SHOULD be running servers on their home systems -- providing services that are for use by other users inside their ISP's network. It's content without the cost of Internet bandwidth! ISPs should be ENCOURAGING this type of network usage.
This assumes that proper routing is being done by the ISP. Your customers in the city need to be able to talk to each other. My current cable ISP by gives you a NATed private IP address instead of a real Internet routable IP address. This is incredibly stupid because now all of the P2P clients running on their network can only transport files to/from users that have a real IP. And since none of their own users have real IPs, guess where all the P2P traffic HAS to go? Yep, through the Internet to other cities.
By saving a little money on buying fewer IP addresses, they waste who knows how much on extra Internet backbone traffic costs.
P2P has the potential to be the most bandwidth efficient system of distributing large files. In an ideal world, when the next release of my favorite Linux distribution is put online, ONE copy of it gets downloaded through the Internet backbone to my city. From there, people inside the city copy it from each other, wasting no Internet bandwidth at all. Simple P2P systems like gnutella probably couldn't pull this off very well, but something like the mftp based edonkey2000.com could do it IMHO (with proper routing in place).
Throttle the Internet P2P data streams. Route internal P2P data streams properly so they don't use the Internet. Try to expand your coverage area to the as much of the city as you can.
Just my 2 cents on the stupid ISP management going on.
I disagree. With wireless, you've got higher latency, considerably slower speeds due to it being a shared medium, and usually higher costs.
With his golden opportunity with the walls down right now, there's no reason to forgo a nice Cat5 wiring. Wire is cheap, you can put gigabit ethernet over it (vs. 11Mbps currently for wireless 802.11b), you can use a switch in the network closet instead of a shared topology, and you don't have to worry about your neighbors snooping your local traffic.
You can always use wireless later on if you really want to (like for laptops). However, don't use that as an excuse for laziness right now.
About a month after the one year warranty period, my Vaio's plastic case cracked in one corner. Not too big a deal as everything is still working, just annoying to look at. Another couple months later and a small subset of the keys on the keyboard stop responding. Okay, got on Sony's factory support and ordered a new plastic plate and keyboard (at a cost of $250 total or so).
Works great for another couple months, then one of the hinges for the display snaps clean off. Bleh! At this point, I wish I had just bought a new Thinkpad when my keyboard broke instead of sinking more money into repairing my stinkin Vaio.
Since we're on the subject of laptops, I just want to vent my frustration with all the laptop vendors who don't include 3 buttons for their mouse. Sure, it's fine for Windows, but in Linux it's -so- nice to have that real third button instead of having to chord.
Thank you IBM for providing three buttons in all of your laptops.
Actually, a less drastic method I have used is to hold the drive in my hand, power on the computer, and then twist my wrist so that the drive is gently jerked in a circular fashion. This has worked on all of the 8GB Maxtors we had sticking and some of my friends various maxtor hard drives.
Why not just use a firewall to isolate your network from the big bad Internet? Think of all the extra memory and processing power wasted by running two transport protocols on each of your workstations. And think about when your internal network grows large enough to -need- a routable transport protocol internally as well as externally. Hardly an optimal solution, IMHO. Linux makes a cheap and easy firewall using the numerous floppy based router distros, or you could use OpenBSD for a really secure firewall, also at low cost.
Do you have a new car equipped with an immobilizer security setup? If so, open up the head of your key, I think you'll find a little RF ID device inside of there. Granted, nobody should be reading your car key's RF ID other than your car, but I think it would be possible. In essence, you are already tagged!!
In my mind, this is indeed a very significant flaw of the P4 that this article overlooks. After running a dual Intel Celeron SMP box for several years now, I'm not really excited about upgrading to an expensive uniprocessor P4. However, if AMD releases their SMP chipset, I would be very excited to upgrade to dual Athlons.
Go back and actually read the article. Intel cut parts of the silicon that would actually improve performance (second FPU), however left in silicon that is never used (extra double speed ALU) because of bottlenecks caused by cuts earlier in the pipeline (single instruction decoder and low throughput trace cache). If you can get past the author's bone against Intel on the first half of the article, he does make very valid points.
You might try these cheap 300MHz Transmitters and Recievers (also available from Digikey.com for a higher price). You can read about EE476 students using them in a customized RC truck here.
There was a historical referrence, in the beginning, that implies that I
was accussing Microsoft of using Linux code. The reality was that I
offered to help them with the solution I was working on because of the
huge mess that the great taskfile debate brought out.
People were pointing out that because I was exposing how to abuse it in
the kernel and that a policy of preventing harmfal combinations was not
acceptable. Since this information could/would/did spill over to the
script kiddies, I thought it was the better part of valor (sp) to inform
an aquaintance at Microsoft of the potential problem that they could see.
I've never had any problem getting bug fixes to the attention of the kernel developers. Just emailed the patch to the maintainer of said code and was done with it. If you wait a couple weeks with no action, try again. It also helps to put [PATCH] in the subject of your emails so they know it might be something useful.
Nope... Some cheap monitors today -still- have the problem. We have one at work with the login screen burned into it (17" Optiquest I think?). Piece of crap.
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Bought this CD a couple days ago and cdparanoia worked fine on it with no hitches... Of course, the article says something about Germany, so maybe the US releases aren't copy protected.
But then what's the point? Just seems like extra incentive for Germans to wait on buying this CD until someone else in the US buys it, rips it, and posts it online... The music industry just loses sales and gains nothing.
BTW, the pay phone incident was in Arizona...
My father owned an apartment complex with a pay phone on site in front. One day the phone company calls him up on the pay phone and tells him that instead of paying him a 17% of the phone sales money each month, they are going to charge $10/month for the convience of having a pay phone onsite. Flabbergasted, he called the Arizona Corporation Commission. Just over 3 minutes after his call to the CC, the phone company calls back and says that they aren't going to make any changes to his pay phone agreement afterall...
In Oregon, he bought a piece of land and wanted to get it hooked up to power. It had been unused for so long before that the power lines that used to supply it no longer could be used. The power company told him he had to buy new wires, pay them $6K, and the wires he just bought would become property of the power company. Dumbfounded, he didn't do anything for a week and then remembered the phone problem above from years ago. He went back to the power company and just -mentioned- the Utilities Commission and suddenly they decided to lower the fee to $1K (never even actually went to the Utilities Commission).
:-)
Why the hell not? Machine A grabs a huge chunk of
keyspace off of the main server. Machine B
takes a subportion of the keyspace from Machine A.
Machine C takes a subportion of keyspace from
Machine D, ad nauseum. When a machine completes
the checking of its key blocks, it reports it back to
the machine it was acquired from for consolidation.
When the main server hears back from Machine A,
it is a tiny packet saying keys in this entire range have
all been checked and returned negative. One small
packet instead of hundreds from each of the
individual machines that actually processed them.
This is only one simple configuration for example
purposes.
You're still gonna need a host, but the
bandwidth required will be nothing.
I have it in the trunk jacked into the plug that would otherwise
be used for a CD changer. I had to build a CD changer protocol
interface board and it's been a real pain since VW doesn't
document it (AFAIK). But now it works, and works well.
Currently I'm running the protocol interface through my
EZ-USB Protoboard, but now that I've got the protocol pretty well reverse engineered I
think I'm gonna port the code to a cheap little PIC16F84
or something.
Checkout the PJRC MP3 player at this link for
a very similar player that costs less and is completely open source.
I've been using my PJRC MP3 player for about a year now in my VW New
Beetle. Great fun.
It's been a year for me and my IBM Travelstar 12GN
hard disk in my PJRC MP3 player used for playing
music in my car. No problems with undue wear.
Yes, Zahn is still dead, although that Stark guy keeps going on as if she's still around a little and perhaps they'll get her back eventually.
:-)
Yes, last season was a little on the depressing side, but at least we got to see Aeryn get it on with that guy from Earth several times. Claudia Black, mmmmm yum!
They DO have a few victories though. Remember the shadow depository they obliverated? They now have all the money they could need. They are making progress, but they have to drag us through two more seasons before they can declare victory over the galaxy.
Right click on My Computer. Select Properties. Click the "Advanced" tab. Click the Startup and Recovery Settings button. Uncheck the Automatically restart on system failure checkbox. Tada!
With a little luck this will hit about 3 years after the baby boomers create a second great depression by retiring.. :)
No, baby boomers retiring should free up jobs, not make them more scarce. Plus, retired baby boomers will probably be busy consuming goods such as motorhomes and other retirement toys, creating new jobs.
Retired baby boomers may cause inflation, since there may be more people (dollars) chasing goods than people producing them (limited goods). But I fail to see how they could create the severe deflation that marks the great depression.
That is much of an excuse. ISPs should start pushing for more IPv6 adoption if this is their real limitation.
Besides, I don't buy your assertion that IPv4 space is THAT tight. My ISP does provide real routable IP addresses as an option for $10/month extra. Its just that most people aren't gonna understand the issues and never bother to sign up for real IPs.
I can fully understand ISPs throttling people's P2P transfers to save some Internet bandwidth. But I also think they ought to be more selective and allow full bandwidth between customers of their own network since this essentially doesn't cost them anything.
I mean, think about it... Everybody in your city connects back to the cable company's head end office where they are all trunked together using the cable company's high speed local area network equipment. Traffic that only goes between people in the same city doesn't need to go through the Internet at all.
People SHOULD be running servers on their home systems -- providing services that are for use by other users inside their ISP's network. It's content without the cost of Internet bandwidth! ISPs should be ENCOURAGING this type of network usage.
This assumes that proper routing is being done by the ISP. Your customers in the city need to be able to talk to each other. My current cable ISP by gives you a NATed private IP address instead of a real Internet routable IP address. This is incredibly stupid because now all of the P2P clients running on their network can only transport files to/from users that have a real IP. And since none of their own users have real IPs, guess where all the P2P traffic HAS to go? Yep, through the Internet to other cities.
By saving a little money on buying fewer IP addresses, they waste who knows how much on extra Internet backbone traffic costs.
P2P has the potential to be the most bandwidth efficient system of distributing large files. In an ideal world, when the next release of my favorite Linux distribution is put online, ONE copy of it gets downloaded through the Internet backbone to my city. From there, people inside the city copy it from each other, wasting no Internet bandwidth at all. Simple P2P systems like gnutella probably couldn't pull this off very well, but something like the mftp based edonkey2000.com could do it IMHO (with proper routing in place).
Throttle the Internet P2P data streams. Route internal P2P data streams properly so they don't use the Internet. Try to expand your coverage area to the as much of the city as you can.
Just my 2 cents on the stupid ISP management going on.
I disagree. With wireless, you've got higher latency, considerably slower speeds due to it being a shared medium, and usually higher costs.
With his golden opportunity with the walls down right now, there's no reason to forgo a nice Cat5 wiring. Wire is cheap, you can put gigabit ethernet over it (vs. 11Mbps currently for wireless 802.11b), you can use a switch in the network closet instead of a shared topology, and you don't have to worry about your neighbors snooping your local traffic.
You can always use wireless later on if you really want to (like for laptops). However, don't use that as an excuse for laziness right now.
About a month after the one year warranty period, my Vaio's plastic case cracked in one corner. Not too big a deal as everything is still working, just annoying to look at. Another couple months later and a small subset of the keys on the keyboard stop responding. Okay, got on Sony's factory support and ordered a new plastic plate and keyboard (at a cost of $250 total or so).
Works great for another couple months, then one of the hinges for the display snaps clean off. Bleh! At this point, I wish I had just bought a new Thinkpad when my keyboard broke instead of sinking more money into repairing my stinkin Vaio.
among many other sites that I can get to from my work shell account. Seems att has some routing issues going on with this mass switchover.
Since we're on the subject of laptops, I just want to vent my frustration with all the laptop vendors who don't include 3 buttons for their mouse. Sure, it's fine for Windows, but in Linux it's -so- nice to have that real third button instead of having to chord.
Thank you IBM for providing three buttons in all of your laptops.
Actually, a less drastic method I have used is to hold the drive in my hand, power on the computer, and then twist my wrist so that the drive is gently jerked in a circular fashion. This has worked on all of the 8GB Maxtors we had sticking and some of my friends various maxtor hard drives.
Why not just use a firewall to isolate your network from the big bad Internet? Think of all the extra memory and processing power wasted by running two transport protocols on each of your workstations. And think about when your internal network grows large enough to -need- a routable transport protocol internally as well as externally. Hardly an optimal solution, IMHO. Linux makes a cheap and easy firewall using the numerous floppy based router distros, or you could use OpenBSD for a really secure firewall, also at low cost.
Do you have a new car equipped with an immobilizer security setup? If so, open up the head of your key, I think you'll find a little RF ID device inside of there. Granted, nobody should be reading your car key's RF ID other than your car, but I think it would be possible. In essence, you are already tagged!!
In my mind, this is indeed a very significant flaw of the P4 that this article overlooks. After running a dual Intel Celeron SMP box for several years now, I'm not really excited about upgrading to an expensive uniprocessor P4. However, if AMD releases their SMP chipset, I would be very excited to upgrade to dual Athlons.
Go back and actually read the article. Intel cut parts of the silicon that would actually improve performance (second FPU), however left in silicon that is never used (extra double speed ALU) because of bottlenecks caused by cuts earlier in the pipeline (single instruction decoder and low throughput trace cache). If you can get past the author's bone against Intel on the first half of the article, he does make very valid points.
You might try these cheap 300MHz Transmitters and Recievers (also available from Digikey.com for a higher price). You can read about EE476 students using them in a customized RC truck here.
I don't think so. Check this message on LKML:
There was a historical referrence, in the beginning, that implies that I was accussing Microsoft of using Linux code. The reality was that I offered to help them with the solution I was working on because of the huge mess that the great taskfile debate brought out. People were pointing out that because I was exposing how to abuse it in the kernel and that a policy of preventing harmfal combinations was not acceptable. Since this information could/would/did spill over to the script kiddies, I thought it was the better part of valor (sp) to inform an aquaintance at Microsoft of the potential problem that they could see.
I've never had any problem getting bug fixes to the attention of the kernel developers. Just emailed the patch to the maintainer of said code and was done with it. If you wait a couple weeks with no action, try again. It also helps to put [PATCH] in the subject of your emails so they know it might be something useful.
Nope... Some cheap monitors today -still- have the problem. We have one at work with the login screen burned into it (17" Optiquest I think?). Piece of crap.