its fairly easy. use an MD5 hash to generate keys (or RIPEMD-160) which reference each file and then dump em to mysql. cross reference em with the ID3 tags and/or wget the stuff from cddb and you should be all set...shell script should do it..nothing fancy required.
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ive read that paper -- its a load of bullshit. while the statistics it gives in economic terms are impressive.. they are irrelevant because it omits one key fact -- what is the main technical problem with the PBMR design which renders it unsafe ? if it cant answer that question IMHO the paper is irrelevant. south african import/export and monetary economics do not count to debunk a perfectly valid technical design.
main problem with tokamak reactors is that lithium aint cheap -- its as expensive as hell if large quantities are required and a fairly rare element. eve if someone managed to mass produce working reactors (which they havent been able to get working properly in a lab yet) they wouldnt be cheap enough for mass consumption (cant have one in your basement or car for example).
use one of the embedded PC designs on this page and integrate the ZF86 chip into a touchscreen. no need for anything else - just use a 16MB on board flash to boot linux and the ZF is a 486 compatible CPU. run mozilla/netscape/etc and youre all set.
just out of curiousity...why didnt you private school your kids rather than home school them ? they would have got more peer interactivity and more sanity in a private school environment.
a simpler method is to enroll the kid in a private school. there is no need for the kid to deal with all this crap. just enroll in a school where the teachers are not minimum wage grunts under union control with wildly hysterical tendencies. you get what you pay for i guess.
thats not true. i work with sun hardware on a daily basis (usually e4500s with 10 cpus / 20 gig ram configs). the real problem is that solaris is slow - if you dont run it on a heavily multiprocessor system (more than 8 cpus) it doesnt run optimally. i think the optimal number of cpus for solaris is around 16...but i could be wrong. anyway, another problem is the ultrasparc - ii's max out around 450MHz and the average piii-700/800 can run nearly twice as fast in linear speed (not number crunching just integers which is what websites use anyway) and since most website code isnt heavily multithreaded you really waste all those extra processors which sit around doing nothing useful. mysql is also not optimised for sun boxes and really screams on linux intel platforms doing linear reads (lamost as fast as linear C reads). now if they had used oracle on solaris with a 10 CPU E4500 with 20 gigs of RAM and heavily multithreaded java code it wouldve blown the crap outta that piii with room to spare...but not for what they were doing (apache/php/mysql with mostly single threaded code).
yup. too many people use threads cause theyre cool..which is really silly. very few people can write multithreaded code correctly and it takes a helluva lot more experience than most people have. took me three months to write my first heavily multiprocessor/multithreaded C code and get it to run without any problems. once you learn to avoid the pitfalls it becomes easier though. in general - spinlock spinlock spinlock. its much easier to use global atomic spinlocks than anything else. and try and do it in java which at least gives some handholding first before trying it in a nightmarishly complex C or C++ which core dumps for the slightest reason.
huh ? youre going to give your correspondents physical copies of your private keys ? and how are you going to "burn another gadget" when your biometric information is compromised ? what are you going to do...change your retinas ?
bub..private keys are PRIVATE. your correspondents need to have your PUBLIC keys..youre the only one supposed to have your PRIVATE keys.
its very simple. release as GPL and assign copyright to the FSF and you jointly (or only FSF if really paranoid). release anonymously. although that might not bring the satisfaction of seeing your name in highlights, the fact is that i (and i assume other) GPL coders do it for fun anyway and it really doesnt matter in the end. a simple (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. does wonders.
bah. ive had weapons around me since i was 13 (including an AR-15 in my cupboard next to my bed with 2000+ rounds of ammo) and i had no problems. its all about how you raise your kid.
yeah i know about the glock trigger safeties and stuff..glocks have some ceramic parts..just not the barrel and stuff but they are lighter thatn most weapons due to the ceramics.
no. simply because if the biometric data is compromised you cant revoke it. suppose someone gets your retinal data then you no longer have th ability to encrypt ANY data using that type of device FOREVER.
annoying ones turn people OFF from the product. i usually buy nike t shirts but after seeing those people with bruises on them in the nike ads i actually was pissed off enough that i stopped buying nike t shirts. i dunno - maybe its just me - but annoying ads really piss me off enough to turn away from a product.
lemme tell you why i joined a start up. going from nothing (entry level programmer) to CTO in 3 months. gaining first hand experience in firing people (over 50 -- including the idiot who hired me). building a really good team from SCRATCH and firing all those consultants who sucked blood from the company. learning and going thru 100's of job interviews a month to weed out good candidates. watching people buckle under the pressure. meeting some really good people and going to trade shows every month...really racking up those frequent flyer miles. writing code on the back of an airplane, at 3am , on a train, at trade shows and fixing problems at the customers site with a dozen people watching me. landing contracts which netted millions of dollars and loosing some. sitting across the table from VCs (all assholes IMHO) and presenting them with concepts to generate money. building massive clusters and multi processor machines and doing stuff i'd never even heard of in theory (load balancing / high availability stuff with java).
i finally quit because i was starting to loose hair (and im a bit TOO young for that), didnt have a life and wanted to work on open source software. startup in my case is running ok (coupla 100K profit/yr..turnover is around 10-12 million) and should survive. i still consult with em on the side but i joined a big company with less responsibilities and pressure and slightly less salary but thats ok..my hair is growing back. and i might get a life soon. plus ive started to update all my open source stuff and start new projects.:)
try freewave.com DGVRO-19 transceivers
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Freewave DGVRO-19 frequency-hopping spread spectrum data transceivers. These devices operate over the 138-144 MHz frequency band, transmitting at 2 W. 20 mile range claimed to be line of site licensed. dunno how expensive they are.
yeah but the code is much better and the papers dont tell you EVERYTHING you need to know..usually important stuff is omitted or missing which the code can clear up really fast.
yup. MBONE is built for all this shit and more. see http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/internet/mbone-faq.html#MBONE the MBONE FAQ....also try rendezvous(sp?) for linux...works ok for recieving streams on most unixes as well as linux and its free as in open source http://www.gaia-interactive.com/rv/...also see the screen shots of it running here : http://www.gaia-interactive.com/rv/Shots/shots.htm l...seriously cool shit with interactiv VR games available.
exactly. a need for who ? im quite happy with my linux box the way it is and if i need something else i write it. where is the need for "world class" software and who wants it ?
lets face it -- most people are happy with a web browser and an office (wordprocessor, spreadsheet,email) package. both of which and more can be provided by any OS. programmers need dev tools - well, gcc is pretty "world class". servers need web browsers/dns/smtp all of which are filled by "world class" open source tools.
now what other "world class" software were you talking about ?
hey -- heres a wake up call for you. no one is going to help you if your projects are neither interesting nor useful. you should write the software you write because YOU want to write it not because open source is a good idea or you want people to help you. ive always started my projects with no help and it usually takes between 4 months to a year before anyone helps out. on the other hand ive had three "one person" projects where people have helped out even though i didnt expect them to...some for a loong time (over a year) and even have taken over some of my projects when i lost interest. there is NO NEED for world class software. if it works for YOU thats all thats important -- after all thats what you wrote it for right ? do NOT write open source software if you want "recognition" or to push the "open source" philisophy or any of that utter crap. write it if YOU want to see it work. and dont expect anything other than the fact youre software does what you wanted it to do.
actually thats mostly true -- but only if the application is written really correctly. with that many threads you HAVE to do a good job or you will have problems since each JVM handles threads differently. for example, java threads on windows arent as agressive as those on solaris -- ive seen applications which dont handle deadlocks correctly die on solaris/linux while working perfectly on windows even though the application was badly written. its fairly incredible to see this in action -- i was positively *stunned* since im used to writing heavily multithreaded code thats synced correctly and having it run across multiple machines/jvms in clusters correctly with no problems. ive seen my code behave exactly the same on windows nt/2k, solaris, hpus, aix and linux even though it had 450-500 odd threads striped across no less than 4 JVM instances and multiple clustered machines.
anyway for best results i recommend :
blackdowns JDK 1.2.2FCS on linux 2.2.17pre20 or 18 or 19preX
suns JDK 1.2.2 on solaris with 108940-07 patches
IBMs JDK 1.2.x for AIX with the patches
HPs JDK 1.1.7/8 for HP/UX on 11.0
ive had problems with all the rest...not tried linux 2.4.x though..too alpha for me. 2.2.x with ingos low latency patches beats even 2.4.x i think.
BTW, if you do want to test how heavily a JVM is multithreaded download the swingworker 2 java file from suns site and see if it produces nullpointerexceptions. if it doesnt then the JVM doesnt thread aggressively. on windows swingworker 2 works fine while it barfs on solaris 30-50% of the time. swingworker 3 fixed that bug but swingworker 2 makes a good test tool.
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its fairly easy. use an MD5 hash to generate keys (or RIPEMD-160) which reference each file and then dump em to mysql. cross reference em with the ID3 tags and/or wget the stuff from cddb and you should be all set...shell script should do it..nothing fancy required.
ive read that paper -- its a load of bullshit. while the statistics it gives in economic terms are impressive .. they are irrelevant because it omits one key fact -- what is the main technical problem with the PBMR design which renders it unsafe ? if it cant answer that question IMHO the paper is irrelevant. south african import/export and monetary economics do not count to debunk a perfectly valid technical design.
main problem with tokamak reactors is that lithium aint cheap -- its as expensive as hell if large quantities are required and a fairly rare element. eve if someone managed to mass produce working reactors (which they havent been able to get working properly in a lab yet) they wouldnt be cheap enough for mass consumption (cant have one in your basement or car for example).
use one of the embedded PC designs on this page and integrate the ZF86 chip into a touchscreen. no need for anything else - just use a 16MB on board flash to boot linux and the ZF is a 486 compatible CPU. run mozilla/netscape/etc and youre all set.
just out of curiousity...why didnt you private school your kids rather than home school them ? they would have got more peer interactivity and more sanity in a private school environment.
a simpler method is to enroll the kid in a private school. there is no need for the kid to deal with all this crap. just enroll in a school where the teachers are not minimum wage grunts under union control with wildly hysterical tendencies. you get what you pay for i guess.
thats not true. i work with sun hardware on a daily basis (usually e4500s with 10 cpus / 20 gig ram configs). the real problem is that solaris is slow - if you dont run it on a heavily multiprocessor system (more than 8 cpus) it doesnt run optimally. i think the optimal number of cpus for solaris is around 16...but i could be wrong. anyway, another problem is the ultrasparc - ii's max out around 450MHz and the average piii-700/800 can run nearly twice as fast in linear speed (not number crunching just integers which is what websites use anyway) and since most website code isnt heavily multithreaded you really waste all those extra processors which sit around doing nothing useful. mysql is also not optimised for sun boxes and really screams on linux intel platforms doing linear reads (lamost as fast as linear C reads). now if they had used oracle on solaris with a 10 CPU E4500 with 20 gigs of RAM and heavily multithreaded java code it wouldve blown the crap outta that piii with room to spare...but not for what they were doing (apache/php/mysql with mostly single threaded code).
they held one of my domains for 5 months until a cybersquatter picked it up. and no - i couldnt register it again either.
yup. too many people use threads cause theyre cool..which is really silly. very few people can write multithreaded code correctly and it takes a helluva lot more experience than most people have. took me three months to write my first heavily multiprocessor/multithreaded C code and get it to run without any problems. once you learn to avoid the pitfalls it becomes easier though. in general - spinlock spinlock spinlock. its much easier to use global atomic spinlocks than anything else. and try and do it in java which at least gives some handholding first before trying it in a nightmarishly complex C or C++ which core dumps for the slightest reason.
huh ? youre going to give your correspondents physical copies of your private keys ? and how are you going to "burn another gadget" when your biometric information is compromised ? what are you going to do...change your retinas ?
bub..private keys are PRIVATE. your correspondents need to have your PUBLIC keys..youre the only one supposed to have your PRIVATE keys.
its very simple. release as GPL and assign copyright to the FSF and you jointly (or only FSF if really paranoid). release anonymously. although that might not bring the satisfaction of seeing your name in highlights, the fact is that i (and i assume other) GPL coders do it for fun anyway and it really doesnt matter in the end. a simple (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. does wonders.
bah. ive had weapons around me since i was 13 (including an AR-15 in my cupboard next to my bed with 2000+ rounds of ammo) and i had no problems. its all about how you raise your kid.
yeah i know about the glock trigger safeties and stuff..glocks have some ceramic parts..just not the barrel and stuff but they are lighter thatn most weapons due to the ceramics.
no. simply because if the biometric data is compromised you cant revoke it. suppose someone gets your retinal data then you no longer have th ability to encrypt ANY data using that type of device FOREVER.
annoying ones turn people OFF from the product. i usually buy nike t shirts but after seeing those people with bruises on them in the nike ads i actually was pissed off enough that i stopped buying nike t shirts. i dunno - maybe its just me - but annoying ads really piss me off enough to turn away from a product.
buy glocks. they dont have wimpy things like safeties AND they're porcelain.
no the energy required to split the bond is far more than the energy generated by recombination.
wouldnt work.
use gnu queue for this. it can do all that and more.
lemme tell you why i joined a start up. going from nothing (entry level programmer) to CTO in 3 months. gaining first hand experience in firing people (over 50 -- including the idiot who hired me). building a really good team from SCRATCH and firing all those consultants who sucked blood from the company. learning and going thru 100's of job interviews a month to weed out good candidates. watching people buckle under the pressure. meeting some really good people and going to trade shows every month...really racking up those frequent flyer miles. writing code on the back of an airplane, at 3am , on a train, at trade shows and fixing problems at the customers site with a dozen people watching me. landing contracts which netted millions of dollars and loosing some. sitting across the table from VCs (all assholes IMHO) and presenting them with concepts to generate money. building massive clusters and multi processor machines and doing stuff i'd never even heard of in theory (load balancing / high availability stuff with java). i finally quit because i was starting to loose hair (and im a bit TOO young for that), didnt have a life and wanted to work on open source software. startup in my case is running ok (coupla 100K profit/yr..turnover is around 10-12 million) and should survive. i still consult with em on the side but i joined a big company with less responsibilities and pressure and slightly less salary but thats ok..my hair is growing back. and i might get a life soon. plus ive started to update all my open source stuff and start new projects. :)
Freewave DGVRO-19 frequency-hopping spread spectrum data transceivers. These devices operate over the 138-144 MHz frequency band, transmitting at 2 W. 20 mile range claimed to be line of site licensed. dunno how expensive they are.
yeah but the code is much better and the papers dont tell you EVERYTHING you need to know..usually important stuff is omitted or missing which the code can clear up really fast.
yup. MBONE is built for all this shit and more. see http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/internet/mbone-faq .html#MBONE the MBONE FAQ....also try rendezvous(sp?) for linux...works ok for recieving streams on most unixes as well as linux and its free as in open source http://www.gaia-interactive.com/rv/ ...also see the screen shots of it running here : http://www.gaia-interactive.com/rv/Shots/shots.htm l ...seriously cool shit with interactiv VR games available.
are the algorithms / software ever going to be released as open source ? it would be kewl to hack on this.
exactly. a need for who ? im quite happy with my linux box the way it is and if i need something else i write it. where is the need for "world class" software and who wants it ?
lets face it -- most people are happy with a web browser and an office (wordprocessor, spreadsheet,email) package. both of which and more can be provided by any OS. programmers need dev tools - well, gcc is pretty "world class". servers need web browsers/dns/smtp all of which are filled by "world class" open source tools.
now what other "world class" software were you talking about ?
hey -- heres a wake up call for you. no one is going to help you if your projects are neither interesting nor useful. you should write the software you write because YOU want to write it not because open source is a good idea or you want people to help you. ive always started my projects with no help and it usually takes between 4 months to a year before anyone helps out. on the other hand ive had three "one person" projects where people have helped out even though i didnt expect them to...some for a loong time (over a year) and even have taken over some of my projects when i lost interest. there is NO NEED for world class software. if it works for YOU thats all thats important -- after all thats what you wrote it for right ? do NOT write open source software if you want "recognition" or to push the "open source" philisophy or any of that utter crap. write it if YOU want to see it work. and dont expect anything other than the fact youre software does what you wanted it to do.
actually thats mostly true -- but only if the application is written really correctly. with that many threads you HAVE to do a good job or you will have problems since each JVM handles threads differently. for example, java threads on windows arent as agressive as those on solaris -- ive seen applications which dont handle deadlocks correctly die on solaris/linux while working perfectly on windows even though the application was badly written. its fairly incredible to see this in action -- i was positively *stunned* since im used to writing heavily multithreaded code thats synced correctly and having it run across multiple machines/jvms in clusters correctly with no problems. ive seen my code behave exactly the same on windows nt/2k, solaris, hpus, aix and linux even though it had 450-500 odd threads striped across no less than 4 JVM instances and multiple clustered machines.
anyway for best results i recommend :
blackdowns JDK 1.2.2FCS on linux 2.2.17pre20 or 18 or 19preX
suns JDK 1.2.2 on solaris with 108940-07 patches
IBMs JDK 1.2.x for AIX with the patches
HPs JDK 1.1.7/8 for HP/UX on 11.0
ive had problems with all the rest...not tried linux 2.4.x though..too alpha for me. 2.2.x with ingos low latency patches beats even 2.4.x i think.
BTW, if you do want to test how heavily a JVM is multithreaded download the swingworker 2 java file from suns site and see if it produces nullpointerexceptions. if it doesnt then the JVM doesnt thread aggressively. on windows swingworker 2 works fine while it barfs on solaris 30-50% of the time. swingworker 3 fixed that bug but swingworker 2 makes a good test tool.