Yes, it *is* funny/stupid when americans do that, which is why I put it in there, just for a bit of a stir.
I, as an australian, do have a slightly different perspective. Google for "brisbane line" if you want to check out some rumours of my country's plans for defence if the jap's ever made it to Darwin. (Basically, a python-esque "run away! run away!" style of defense)
It's probably an auto-suggest from their speel-checker: Speel-Checker: "No match for capitalpitalization - did you mean capitulation?" UserWithNoClue: "er, maybe... I guess speel-check knows best." (Clicks yes)
I used to use a linux program called "motion" at a lab I worked at - it could do all the usual features - record only when a scene changed by a certain amount, time-lapse, ignore certain areas etc. It converted them to a series of movies for each "incident" recorded, plus a daily time-lapse one.
So, they were a victim of fraud, and I have to do all the rigamarole of ringing credit agencies, checking my credit records and generally having to keep tabs of any suspicious activity for years to come.
Well, as long as I can bill them for my time for all of that, that's fine. I mean hell, if they weren't so busy whoring all my personal details out to anyone who asked nicely, well, we wouldn't be in this pickle now, would we?
If you're up to some fiddling, play DVD's on your PC with mplayer, or get a mythTV box going and (using it's internal DVD player/ripper module) jump straight to the movie, without the ads.
Then, just for **extra spite value**, rip and compress it to your hard drive, so that every time you play it you can say, "Yeah! Take that Blockbuster, you FUCKERS!"
That's what I do... and frankly, it feels good every time I do it.
Garrick was a low-level drone that mysteriously dissapeard at the end of the dot-com bubble. Rumour has it, when his stocks took a tumble... well, so did he. However, nobody in the lumbering corporate behemoth that is "Linux Journal" refuses to admit that he's gone. Now, all we see are little notes to Garrick to remind us of him, whilst the staff are soldiering on, hoping that one day Garrick will return from his power lunch with a new nerf gun, ready for a solid bit of copy-work in the afternoon.
If you design anything destined for public use, please, please read through the Risks Digest. This mailing list is 20 years old and is described as a "Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems". It's good to browse through - often simple things end up getting someone killed, like the woman who drowned in an elevator that returned to the flooded ground floor of a building when a fire alarm went off.
This is (and I do recall the specific details) a very suspect story for one reason: Your car has an engine with (perhaps) 200HP Your car has brakes with a stopping capacity of 2000HP for short periods of time. Think. It takes (say) 10 seconds to get to 60MPH, but only a few seconds to slam on the brakes and come to a halt.
Accelerating out of control to 200km/h? No problem. Stand on the brakes. Real hard. You will stop.
For those of you interested in the way computers interact with the world in unforseen ways, check out the Risks Guide. This mailing list has been going strong for 20 or so years with all the joys of that design and unintended consequences can bring. I believe anyone building something available to the public should at least browse through the list.
I can think of one -
Your average linux worm/trojan/virus has a lot harder time of things when different distributions do things differently.
Nefarious Program: "Lets see, now all we have to do is modify the ip address of eth0 and... hmmm... it's not in/etc/default.... maybe it's in/etc/config.d... no, er, maybe its dhcp? now, where are those lease files kept?/var/dhcpd/lease? Ah, the hell with it, I'll just infect some windows box."
The reflective layer on CD's is what makes it all work. If you get a cheap CD and look at it's pale green layer... then get a hold of a Kodak ultima CD, you'll certainly spot the difference in reflectivity.
I *presume* that as the media ages, the margin of error slowly shrinks to the point where your media is now unreadable. As all you're reading is either:
- the reflected light from the reflective layer or
- the absence of reflected light due to the dye
Discs with lower reflectivity will end up useless first (all other things being equal... which they're not:-) as the reader will be unable to discern the difference between "low" from low reflectivity or a "low" from the now-aged dye.
Come on, they had a pretty good design for a single-person re-entry vehicle that weighed 215kg in the 60's. What could they do with the materials we have now?
Of course, I wouldn't want to be the astronaut that has to manually orient his return vehicle for reentry by pointing a handheld gas gun in the direction of travel..... but if I had no other choice, I'd probably spend 5 minutes thumbing through the manual and leap on in. Mind you, a ballistic reentry would pull 8 or so G's.
Hell, another 15 years and they'll probably make an extreme sport out of it.
They read the instructions, and then play aroud with it. Yes, there are instructions for accessing the mythTV cvs, even with full commands to type in. All two of them, if cvs is already installed in your system.
Who knows? They might even learn something and become less of a n00b.
I like mythtv. I have a computer in the loungeroom, attached to the TV - it runs 24x7. Our TV is not even tuned to any stations in our region, it has one mode of operation - svideo in. The PC has an AthlonXP 2000+, 512MB ram, onboard nforce video/TVout/audio,a 802.11b pci card, and a crappy 79AUD PCTV video capture card that came with a remote that works very nicely with MythTV. I have a cvs version of mythtv that I update and build every month or so.
So , how do I use it?
- With the 4 FTA channels that are available to me, I've got it set to record about five regular shows for me and my wife, plus a few movies on occasion. I watch the recorded shows when I come home from work, and possibly browse about 15-20 minutes of "real" tv. I will never go back to "real" tv, more importantly, neither will my wife.
- I use the MythDVD portion of MythTV for ripping rental DVD's. Wait, hold the flames! I use it in this fashion as I work shiftwork, my wife rents DVD's and I normally see them on the table about 1/2 hour before they're due back... rip them to Mythtv, watch them later at my convenience with the MythVideo portion. *Side note: If anyone's looking for convenience in ripping DVD's , this is it. Insert DVD, pick which title to rip, select bitrate ("Good" on my system equals 750kbps xvid,2 pass,720x576 - works nicely for me) , press go. The DVD is ripped to a file in 15 minutes, and a Xvid encoded version appears in the MythVideo section in about 3 hours (on my Athlon XP2000+).
- I also have about 20 DVD's at home for the kids ripped and watchable in MythVideo. Oh, *cough* and a few movies I got from teh intarweb. First release movies arrive in my small town about 6 months after a good DVD rip comes out, so occasionally I use a fair sized chunk of my 16GB ADSL download allowance to get a few movies. I've also been busy lately downloading Enterprise episodes (have all of them S1-S4 now). Enterprise got canned on Australian TV at the end of series 2, I think.
- I listen to about 5 GB of mp3's/ogg's with the MythMusic portion and my wife is slowly ripping her giant CD collection to it.
- I plug in the USB gamepad and kill time by playing about 500 MAME and Super Nintendo (yay mario!) games with the MythGame plugin.
- I listen to a number of internet radio stations with the Radio plugin. Gotta love "the 80's channel".
- I have just about every digital photo I've ever taken in the Mythgallery area, which allows me to browse through and start a slideshow of images.
- I get a weather feed with MythWeather, with a 4 day forecast, current conditions and animated satellite imagery.
- I also have MythNews, a RSS browser... but I don't really use it often, as I have one in Thunderbird on my PC.
All up, it cost about 1000AUD to put together+ a few days of cursing to set up initially. It's been running now for about 18 months. The rest of the family's addicted to it now, so I don't think it'll ever be leaving.
MythTV has not even been updated for a whole year.
I don't know where you get your info from but mythtv.org disagrees with you. (September 2004 for the 0.16 release, this weekend , apparenty for 0.17) This is not a project for the linux newbie. But, learning to get mythtv from cvs and compile is relatively pain-free... once you have mythtv already working on your box, that is. And there's always knoppmyth , a bootable cd version.
Slashdot has a proud tradition of linking to, er, suprising things (eg. goatse.cx) with innocuous descriptions. If you're clicking links on slashdot, always check the full destination (typically shown in the status bar of your browser with your mouse on the link) *before* clicking. Consider any link NSFW.
Wait, is someone pulling numbers out of their ass?
+- $25 total time: 3hrs - 2months depending on expiriance
Except for the fact that your PIC probably has 16 or so data lines, and you need 100 or so addressable lines to talk nicely to PC2700 ram. Oh, and don't forget the 40 lines you need to talk to the IDE interface. So , that $25 just ballooned out to a coupla hundred when you factor in some glue logic and a few fpga devices of sufficent capacity. And 3 hours might be a little on the low side there for the labour estimate.
What about the russians? If a soyuz can reach the ISS, how about say, 40 million to get a capsule with a couple of people to hubble to do the repairs, clean the mirrors and head on back home?
All you need is a man-rated capsule that can reach (er, and return from) hubble's orbit. Hell, a few more years and the chinese will probably be able to do it.
Slashdot Mirror
wha? Had your coffee yet?
:-)
This is *optical* cable, remember
Yes, it *is* funny/stupid when americans do that, which is why I put it in there, just for a bit of a stir.
I, as an australian, do have a slightly different perspective. Google for "brisbane line" if you want to check out some rumours of my country's plans for defence if the jap's ever made it to Darwin. (Basically, a python-esque "run away! run away!" style of defense)
I wonder what a capitulation scheme is.
Ask the french.
AHAHAHAHAHAH!! Man, that joke never gets old.
It's probably an auto-suggest from their speel-checker:
Speel-Checker: "No match for capitalpitalization - did you mean capitulation?"
UserWithNoClue: "er, maybe... I guess speel-check knows best."
(Clicks yes)
I used to use a linux program called "motion" at a lab I worked at - it could do all the usual features - record only when a scene changed by a certain amount, time-lapse, ignore certain areas etc. It converted them to a series of movies for each "incident" recorded, plus a daily time-lapse one.
Such as something like this?
Bi-facial solar cells
At any rate, at least see if it becomes a recurring thing before organizing the lynch mob.
Sigh.
This is getting soooo tedious. Anyway:
(clears throat, ah-hem's a few times)
You must be new here.
Seriously, can't someone write a bot that can auto-post these YMBNH replies? Anyone?
So, they were a victim of fraud, and I have to do all the rigamarole of ringing credit agencies, checking my credit records and generally having to keep tabs of any suspicious activity for years to come.
Well, as long as I can bill them for my time for all of that, that's fine. I mean hell, if they weren't so busy whoring all my personal details out to anyone who asked nicely, well, we wouldn't be in this pickle now, would we?
$75 bucks an hour sound okay to everyone here?
If you're up to some fiddling, play DVD's on your PC with mplayer, or get a mythTV box going and (using it's internal DVD player/ripper module) jump straight to the movie, without the ads.
Then, just for **extra spite value**, rip and compress it to your hard drive, so that every time you play it you can say, "Yeah! Take that Blockbuster, you FUCKERS!"
That's what I do... and frankly, it feels good every time I do it.
Garrick was a low-level drone that mysteriously dissapeard at the end of the dot-com bubble. Rumour has it, when his stocks took a tumble... well, so did he. However, nobody in the lumbering corporate behemoth that is "Linux Journal" refuses to admit that he's gone. Now, all we see are little notes to Garrick to remind us of him, whilst the staff are soldiering on, hoping that one day Garrick will return from his power lunch with a new nerf gun, ready for a solid bit of copy-work in the afternoon.
How tragically HHGTTG-esque! *sniff*
As mentioned in a reply to a AC further up -
:
If you design anything destined for public use, please, please read through the Risks Digest. This mailing list is 20 years old and is described as a "Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems". It's good to browse through - often simple things end up getting someone killed, like the woman who drowned in an elevator that returned to the flooded ground floor of a building when a fire alarm went off.
A few snippets
French motorist obeys GPS navigation, makes U-turn into traffic
Air Traffic Control blacked out by rodent
The risks of zero feedback
Shutting the train door before the commuter has bolted?
This is (and I do recall the specific details) a very suspect story for one reason :
Your car has an engine with (perhaps) 200HP
Your car has brakes with a stopping capacity of 2000HP for short periods of time. Think. It takes (say) 10 seconds to get to 60MPH, but only a few seconds to slam on the brakes and come to a halt.
Accelerating out of control to 200km/h? No problem. Stand on the brakes. Real hard. You will stop.
For those of you interested in the way computers interact with the world in unforseen ways, check out the Risks Guide. This mailing list has been going strong for 20 or so years with all the joys of that design and unintended consequences can bring. I believe anyone building something available to the public should at least browse through the list.
I can think of one -
/etc/default .... /etc/config.d ... /var/dhcpd/lease?
Your average linux worm/trojan/virus has a lot harder time of things when different distributions do things differently.
Nefarious Program: "Lets see, now all we have to do is modify the ip address of eth0 and...
hmmm... it's not in
maybe it's in
no, er, maybe its dhcp? now, where are those lease files kept?
Ah, the hell with it, I'll just infect some windows box."
(Nefarious Program exits)
The reflective layer on CD's is what makes it all work. If you get a cheap CD and look at it's pale green layer... then get a hold of a Kodak ultima CD, you'll certainly spot the difference in reflectivity.
:
:-) as the reader will be unable to discern the difference between "low" from low reflectivity or a "low" from the now-aged dye.
I *presume* that as the media ages, the margin of error slowly shrinks to the point where your media is now unreadable. As all you're reading is either
- the reflected light from the reflective layer
or
- the absence of reflected light due to the dye
Discs with lower reflectivity will end up useless first (all other things being equal... which they're not
Believe me, if they've got it , they'll print it on the box for you - it's not like you can get many other differentiating features in CD's.
:-)
Kodak Gold Ulitma CD's were a silver / gold alloy. I've still got a few from my first burner... they're 5 years old now and still (apparently) ok.
Here's a FAQ about data life of kodak CD's. Accelerated aging at 80 degrees C and 80% RH seems a bit tough
In a way, see "double slit experiment".
Wikipedia has a good page on it.
Come on, they had a pretty good design for a single-person re-entry vehicle that weighed 215kg in the 60's. What could they do with the materials we have now?
Of course, I wouldn't want to be the astronaut that has to manually orient his return vehicle for reentry by pointing a handheld gas gun in the direction of travel..... but if I had no other choice, I'd probably spend 5 minutes thumbing through the manual and leap on in. Mind you, a ballistic reentry would pull 8 or so G's.
Hell, another 15 years and they'll probably make an extreme sport out of it.
I would, except I work 600m underground, in a lead mine and internet access is .... marginal, to say the least.
:-)
But yeah, mythweb does work great for that
Bill and Melinda, and their charity do give a shitload of cash out. About 2 billion (over 20 years) here.
A search for "bill gates charity" will show heaps of info.
See this page for some idea.
They read the instructions, and then play aroud with it. Yes, there are instructions for accessing the mythTV cvs, even with full commands to type in. All two of them, if cvs is already installed in your system.
Who knows? They might even learn something and become less of a n00b.
I like mythtv. I have a computer in the loungeroom, attached to the TV - it runs 24x7. Our TV is not even tuned to any stations in our region, it has one mode of operation - svideo in.
The PC has an AthlonXP 2000+, 512MB ram, onboard nforce video/TVout/audio,a 802.11b pci card, and a crappy 79AUD PCTV video capture card that came with a remote that works very nicely with MythTV. I have a cvs version of mythtv that I update and build every month or so.
So , how do I use it?
- With the 4 FTA channels that are available to me, I've got it set to record about five regular shows for me and my wife, plus a few movies on occasion. I watch the recorded shows when I come home from work, and possibly browse about 15-20 minutes of "real" tv. I will never go back to "real" tv, more importantly, neither will my wife.
- I use the MythDVD portion of MythTV for ripping rental DVD's. Wait, hold the flames! I use it in this fashion as I work shiftwork, my wife rents DVD's and I normally see them on the table about 1/2 hour before they're due back... rip them to Mythtv, watch them later at my convenience with the MythVideo portion.
*Side note: If anyone's looking for convenience in ripping DVD's , this is it. Insert DVD, pick which title to rip, select bitrate ("Good" on my system equals 750kbps xvid,2 pass,720x576 - works nicely for me) , press go. The DVD is ripped to a file in 15 minutes, and a Xvid encoded version appears in the MythVideo section in about 3 hours (on my Athlon XP2000+).
- I also have about 20 DVD's at home for the kids ripped and watchable in MythVideo. Oh, *cough* and a few movies I got from teh intarweb. First release movies arrive in my small town about 6 months after a good DVD rip comes out, so occasionally I use a fair sized chunk of my 16GB ADSL download allowance to get a few movies. I've also been busy lately downloading Enterprise episodes (have all of them S1-S4 now). Enterprise got canned on Australian TV at the end of series 2, I think.
- I listen to about 5 GB of mp3's/ogg's with the MythMusic portion and my wife is slowly ripping her giant CD collection to it.
- I plug in the USB gamepad and kill time by playing about 500 MAME and Super Nintendo (yay mario!) games with the MythGame plugin.
- I listen to a number of internet radio stations with the Radio plugin. Gotta love "the 80's channel".
- I have just about every digital photo I've ever taken in the Mythgallery area, which allows me to browse through and start a slideshow of images.
- I get a weather feed with MythWeather, with a 4 day forecast, current conditions and animated satellite imagery.
- I also have MythNews, a RSS browser... but I don't really use it often, as I have one in Thunderbird on my PC.
All up, it cost about 1000AUD to put together+ a few days of cursing to set up initially. It's been running now for about 18 months. The rest of the family's addicted to it now, so I don't think it'll ever be leaving.
MythTV has not even been updated for a whole year.
... once you have mythtv already working on your box, that is. And there's always knoppmyth , a bootable cd version.
I don't know where you get your info from but mythtv.org disagrees with you. (September 2004 for the 0.16 release, this weekend , apparenty for 0.17)
This is not a project for the linux newbie.
But, learning to get mythtv from cvs and compile is relatively pain-free
If you want NSFW tags, go to fark.
Slashdot has a proud tradition of linking to, er, suprising things (eg. goatse.cx) with innocuous descriptions. If you're clicking links on slashdot, always check the full destination (typically shown in the status bar of your browser with your mouse on the link) *before* clicking. Consider any link NSFW.
Hmmm. Perhaps that should go in the FAQ.
Wait, is someone pulling numbers out of their ass?
+- $25 total time: 3hrs - 2months depending on expiriance
Except for the fact that your PIC probably has 16 or so data lines, and you need 100 or so addressable lines to talk nicely to PC2700 ram. Oh, and don't forget the 40 lines you need to talk to the IDE interface.
So , that $25 just ballooned out to a coupla hundred when you factor in some glue logic and a few fpga devices of sufficent capacity. And 3 hours might be a little on the low side there for the labour estimate.
What about the russians?
If a soyuz can reach the ISS, how about say, 40 million to get a capsule with a couple of people to hubble to do the repairs, clean the mirrors and head on back home?
All you need is a man-rated capsule that can reach (er, and return from) hubble's orbit. Hell, a few more years and the chinese will probably be able to do it.
Please editors be more careful!
(obligatory reply)
You're new here, aren't you?