What would be a good value for x?....says the worm writer;-) Look , if you need a hand with your worm code, just post it as a theoretical question - you'll get a dozen replies, code snippets, the whole shebang.
Linux / BSD / OSX / Windows are wrong. (Actually, some of the linux disk tools in gentoo now report things in KiB and GiB.)
And personally, I think the complainants are screwed - this will be a pretty short case.
Any engineer (or high school student for that matter) knows that Giga is one thousand million. 80 Gigabytes = 80 thousand million bytes, just as 80 Gigajoules = 80 thousand million joules.
Show me a SI definition of "Giga" that's any different.
Whether hard disk manufacturers report their capacity as 80GB or 77GiB is up to them, they are still equivalent. I can sell rope by the foot or metre, as long as they're priced and measured correctly - what's the difference here?
yeah , most sugar refineries have their own power system for the cane trash. In fact, one of the refineries locally to me (Mackay, Queensland) also has the capability to put it's excess power onto the grid. Don't know how often they do it though.
Yes , but as people have mentioned above, it makes people completely tense and anal about it.
So, now they clock in at *exactly* 7:30.... and when asked to "just stay back 5 minutes to do (x)", they think, "well, fuck you. I clock in a 7:30, I clock out at 3. Seeya."
Even if they don't actually *say* that, they're thinking it subconsciously. If your company is unwilling to allow *1* minute leeway, well, it works both ways and employees will be a lot less willing to go above and beyond because of it.
Remove the magnetron and power unit from your microwave and mount behind the grille in the front of your car. Switch that on and you can jam just about anything with 800-1000W of 2.4GHz microwave goodness. You don't have to be too close to scramble their phone/car's ECU / brain with *that*! That'll fuck 'em!
Caution : do not aim at face, or operate in any area where you could be mistaken as a SAM launch site.
(Incidentally , I vaguely recall the UK police were trialling microwave 'guns' that would have the same effect on car's ECU's. Dunno if anything ever came of it though)
I can claim that you have to pay me money to drink liquid, and I'm sure there are enough morons out there that would do it to give me a nice little income, but I thought that would put you behind bars.
I've got a MSI mainboard now with some sort of diagnostic-POST sequence-set of leds on the back. 4 red-green leds give you 16 stages of the boot process.
Replying to both the smart guy above, and the guy above that:
channel 4 is probably close to the bus (or a harmonic of) or the processor speed of a dx4/100. I'm pretty sure that channel 4 (in.au anyway) is centered around 100Mhz somewhere.
Your pentium 3 on the other hand is likely to have a clock speed (in RF terms) above the UHF band, out of sight.
You have to wind your car over at about 1500rpm to kick start your generator into making any juice out of it's residual rotor magnetism.
Good luck trying to do that with your arms;-)
(For the guys below this post - it can be done, you just have to spin up the alternator a lot more before residual magnetism kicks in and powers up the regulator. A steep hill, about 30kph and drop the clutch in 2nd or 3rd can do it. I've done it without an open-circuit battery in a car before today, but I'm an auto electrician and I say, "now, we really shouldn't do this but.." first.
It is nasty for the electronics though - alternators have some trouble keeping below 14-15 volts without a battery to soak up the load - in the above case it was start the car or walk about 50km. So we started the car;-)
It does take about 3 seconds of winding over to start it though, as your (late model car): Spins up it's alternator and gets enough residual magnetism to excite it's rotor properly. Wakes up its EFI computer. EFI powers up its fuel pump to get fuel pressure. EFI computer realises ignition is on and engine is rotating and it's not supplying spark or fuel. EFI computer thinks "WTF!?" (or it's factory-programmed equivalent) EFI supplies spark and fuel. This can take a little bit as you haven't turned the key to start, and EFI computers like you to do that normally so they can twiddle the mix etc for easier starts.
And 3 seconds is a long time when you're rolling down a short hill considering having to push your 1.5 ton car back up it to have another go;-)
I was reminded of this when troubleshooting some old dos software that interfaced to some balances and a serial printer - the phone call went like:
ME : "Easy, just set up MODE in your autoexec file to redirect the lpt port to com2 at 9600 baud, and plug the printer into com2"
Young Computer guy : "MODE? what's that? Hey, autoexec.bat only runs just before you boot windows doesn't it? (this was on a DOS only PC by the way)"
Me: "(Rolls eyes) just put it in there."
YCG : "(click,click) But... there's no EDIT...."
Me: "Well, just copy con it then."
YCG: "What the fuck are you talking about?!?"
Me: "Step away from the computer - I'll be there in an hour."
I'm only 29 and he's 21 and Frigging Useless. God help the next generation if they ever need to use the XP recovery console or (gasp!) linux or something.
I recall that there was some hack/tweak about the mono video RAM area being mapped in above your 640K, giving you another 32/64K or so.... maybe he's mumbling about that?
And for the record, I remember my tandy laptop with it's massive 2048K of battery-backed EMS ram. Oh yeah, now we're pimpin';-)
The maximum range is usually 9km or thereabouts, and receivers on base stations are usually sensitive enough that they do not need the handsets to be transmitting that amount of power.
Maybe in your neck of the woods;-) GSM in my neck of the woods is good for it's maximum distance of 35km. I use one GSM base station in the middle-of-nowhere - at Nebo, Queensland , Australia. I measured on day on a decent map a 35km radius, and sure enough, *click* - disconnect at 35km. It's on a 400ft hill and it's still line-of-sight at that point. The CDMA tower on the same hill (with a different phone,of course) can go for another 20 or so K's and finally behind another range of hills before dropping out. At the far end of it's range, the CDMA phone gets rather warm while talking so I'd say it's pushing hard to be heard.
I guess that they have some sort of monitor on the "power good" wire that comes from your power supply. Maybe it latches and is then reset? If you get a brief "power bad" and still have enough juice in the capacitors to run things, the kernel notes the latched line and resets it and adds a "power failure detected" log.
Well, that's how I'd do it if *I* was a Quality Computer Manufacturer, anyway;-)
That's not spam, because we're contacting genuine potential customers.
You do realise that spam is termed 'U.C.E.' as in Unsolicited commercial email?
The phrase "but I'm just contacting genuine potential customers" is the mainstay of every spammers excuse list.
I do applaud your sales guy for snail-mailing things out - it's likely to have more credibility anyway compared to having your message slotted in between v1argara and peni5 enlargement offers.
Something I've wondered about is the legalities of 'fuzzy' recordings.
eg : you download a 160kbps MP3, the RIAA gives you a court order for copyright infringement. The copyright is for a song that they have the rights for.
But is their copyright valid for the digital representation of the song? The RIAA'd argue yes , of course it is, after all CD's contain binary 16 bit samples of audio at 44.1kHz.
But, even with your leet 160kbps mp3, you don't have an exact duplicate in it's entirety - not by a long shot. Could you argue that your MP3 is just a summary of the original work? It's 1/10th the size, isn't it? To draw (hah!) a parallel in the art world, does my rough sketch of monet's sunflowers constitute copyright infringement? Hardly.
Take a leaf from the SCO debacle, and print out a copy of both the CD digital audio and your MP3 onto paper and politely ask the prosecutor to underline the offending parts of your data for you. Just the sheer difference in size of your printouts would go some way in convincing the court that they are not the same.
If they pull the "for all intents and purposes" response, just wheel out the expert witnesses and the double-blind tests, and the sonographs of distortion. You should be able to prove that the audio that your collection of bits on your drive represent is completely different to the audio from the collection of bits on the CD.
What am I missing here? Why is this defence not used?
Have you seen the TOS on your typical ISP lately? Fat fucking chance of suing them for *anything*.
Support Guy : "Oh, I'm sorry, our routers forwarded the ping-of-death to your PC and erased it's drive with all your data? That's a shame, because you *know* that our TOS states that we are *not* responsible for anything that we do. In fact, paragraph 134 explicitly states that we're *allowed* to screw over your computer as many times as we feel necessary, without notice. Thanks, and have a nice day! *click*"
Let's see: - Most of them already have some web interface. - Some of them allow you to access this interface from the internet. - All of them are firmware upgradeable, so they have *some* sort of easily-erasable memory in it. - Some have an obvious directory structure that is read-writeable when you (t)ftp to it. If you're really lucky, this area can include the web pages your router uses to show you info.
So it seems all you mostly have to do is: - bend router firmware to allow non-local network access to point to a dir with your website in it. - Add a link to existing router web pages to point to your "outside" site , so you can test/see it.
Hmmm. Might just have to suss this out a bit more... could be handy.
I have no idea how much an average printing run costs for your average paper, but surely it'd be a packet.
So, how hard would it be for a newspaper co to go moderately into 'offline' e-news?
What if you could buy a decent reader for 10 bucks (subsidised) and just zap the content in every day for 50 cents a pop? A 100-page pdf / zipped html of the daily paper'd have to fit in 32MB, even with pics. Perhaps you could keep yesterday's news as well , until you run out of storage space.
For those with slow net connections, you could wander into your nearest newsagent, give them yesterday's card and get another card with todays news. The advantage there being that it could be updated throughout the day, rather than the "print it at 3am - good till tommorrow" approach. Your old card simply gets flashed again , ready for someone else tomorrow.
After the initial outlay (subsidised readers, cards etc) , would it balance out in the end?
If only the RIAA could implement product activation on CD's... then everybody would be happy.
But they do! They require you to give them (or their agents) a specially authenticated token - in exchange for this, you recieve an activated CD from them you can legally use, without fear of punishment or retribution. Certain different tokens (or combinations thereof) also allow you to volume license CD's from them. As it stands today, without this token-based product activation scheme , you cannot legally acquire a CD from them.
If you are found in possession of copied or improperly activated CD's , the punishments can be severe.
You can obtain these tokens in exchange for goods or services you provide, so you can buy more CD's. The tokens themselves are rigorously scrutinised and authenticated by an organisation called a 'Treasury', so you know that they're secure.
Slashdot Mirror
(Crushes cup with newly-made cybernetic hand)
"Groovy."
Just wait until someone develops a proxy filter for your downloadable newspaper content.
:-)
Ads? What Ads?
for the example given above (with one mail alternative, mozilla), n=1.
For 5 mainstream mail alternatives , n = 1.01638981180643986096477458654682, or thereabouts.
(Warning! n calculated with windows calculator. Results may not be accurate.)
What would be a good value for x? ....says the worm writer ;-)
Look , if you need a hand with your worm code, just post it as a theoretical question - you'll get a dozen replies, code snippets, the whole shebang.
Linux / BSD / OSX / Windows are wrong.
(Actually, some of the linux disk tools in gentoo now report things in KiB and GiB.)
And personally, I think the complainants are screwed - this will be a pretty short case.
Any engineer (or high school student for that matter) knows that Giga is one thousand million.
80 Gigabytes = 80 thousand million bytes, just as 80 Gigajoules = 80 thousand million joules.
Show me a SI definition of "Giga" that's any different.
Whether hard disk manufacturers report their capacity as 80GB or 77GiB is up to them, they are still equivalent. I can sell rope by the foot or metre, as long as they're priced and measured correctly - what's the difference here?
yeah , most sugar refineries have their own power system for the cane trash. In fact, one of the refineries locally to me (Mackay, Queensland) also has the capability to put it's excess power onto the grid. Don't know how often they do it though.
So, let me get this straight:
;-)
Parent poster complains about the number of differing libraries to develop under and wants ONE set of API's.
You respond by giving him *two* libraries to use.
Way to miss the point there, fella
Yes , but as people have mentioned above, it makes people completely tense and anal about it.
So, now they clock in at *exactly* 7:30.... and when asked to "just stay back 5 minutes to do (x)", they think, "well, fuck you. I clock in a 7:30, I clock out at 3. Seeya."
Even if they don't actually *say* that, they're thinking it subconsciously. If your company is unwilling to allow *1* minute leeway, well, it works both ways and employees will be a lot less willing to go above and beyond because of it.
Remove the magnetron and power unit from your microwave and mount behind the grille in the front of your car. Switch that on and you can jam just about anything with 800-1000W of 2.4GHz microwave goodness. You don't have to be too close to scramble their phone /car's ECU / brain with *that*! That'll fuck 'em!
Caution : do not aim at face, or operate in any area where you could be mistaken as a SAM launch site.
(Incidentally , I vaguely recall the UK police were trialling microwave 'guns' that would have the same effect on car's ECU's. Dunno if anything ever came of it though)
I can claim that you have to pay me money to drink liquid, and I'm sure there are enough morons out there that would do it to give me a nice little income, but I thought that would put you behind bars.
:-)
It would if you were a bartender.
Thanks very much - I'm here all week
I've got a MSI mainboard now with some sort of diagnostic-POST sequence-set of leds on the back. 4 red-green leds give you 16 stages of the boot process.
Replying to both the smart guy above, and the guy above that :
.au anyway) is centered around 100Mhz somewhere.
channel 4 is probably close to the bus (or a harmonic of) or the processor speed of a dx4/100. I'm pretty sure that channel 4 (in
Your pentium 3 on the other hand is likely to have a clock speed (in RF terms) above the UHF band, out of sight.
You have to wind your car over at about 1500rpm to kick start your generator into making any juice out of it's residual rotor magnetism.
;-)
;-)
:
Good luck trying to do that with your arms
(For the guys below this post - it can be done, you just have to spin up the alternator a lot more before residual magnetism kicks in and powers up the regulator. A steep hill, about 30kph and drop the clutch in 2nd or 3rd can do it. I've done it without an open-circuit battery in a car before today, but I'm an auto electrician and I say, "now, we really shouldn't do this but.." first.
It is nasty for the electronics though - alternators have some trouble keeping below 14-15 volts without a battery to soak up the load - in the above case it was start the car or walk about 50km. So we started the car
It does take about 3 seconds of winding over to start it though, as your (late model car)
Spins up it's alternator and gets enough residual magnetism to excite it's rotor properly.
Wakes up its EFI computer.
EFI powers up its fuel pump to get fuel pressure.
EFI computer realises ignition is on and engine is rotating and it's not supplying spark or fuel.
EFI computer thinks "WTF!?" (or it's factory-programmed equivalent)
EFI supplies spark and fuel. This can take a little bit as you haven't turned the key to start, and EFI computers like you to do that normally so they can twiddle the mix etc for easier starts.
And 3 seconds is a long time when you're rolling down a short hill considering having to push your 1.5 ton car back up it to have another go;-)
I was reminded of this when troubleshooting some old dos software that interfaced to some balances and a serial printer - the phone call went like :
ME : "Easy, just set up MODE in your autoexec file to redirect the lpt port to com2 at 9600 baud, and plug the printer into com2"
Young Computer guy : "MODE? what's that? Hey, autoexec.bat only runs just before you boot windows doesn't it? (this was on a DOS only PC by the way)"
Me: "(Rolls eyes) just put it in there."
YCG : "(click,click) But... there's no EDIT...."
Me: "Well, just copy con it then."
YCG: "What the fuck are you talking about?!?"
Me: "Step away from the computer - I'll be there in an hour."
I'm only 29 and he's 21 and Frigging Useless. God help the next generation if they ever need to use the XP recovery console or (gasp!) linux or something.
I recall that there was some hack/tweak about the mono video RAM area being mapped in above your 640K, giving you another 32/64K or so.... maybe he's mumbling about that?
;-)
And for the record, I remember my tandy laptop with it's massive 2048K of battery-backed EMS ram. Oh yeah, now we're pimpin'
The maximum range is usually 9km or thereabouts, and receivers on base stations are usually sensitive enough that they do not need the handsets to be transmitting that amount of power.
;-)
Maybe in your neck of the woods
GSM in my neck of the woods is good for it's maximum distance of 35km. I use one GSM base station in the middle-of-nowhere - at Nebo, Queensland , Australia. I measured on day on a decent map a 35km radius, and sure enough, *click* - disconnect at 35km. It's on a 400ft hill and it's still line-of-sight at that point.
The CDMA tower on the same hill (with a different phone,of course) can go for another 20 or so K's and finally behind another range of hills before dropping out. At the far end of it's range, the CDMA phone gets rather warm while talking so I'd say it's pushing hard to be heard.
I guess that they have some sort of monitor on the "power good" wire that comes from your power supply. Maybe it latches and is then reset? If you get a brief "power bad" and still have enough juice in the capacitors to run things, the kernel notes the latched line and resets it and adds a "power failure detected" log.
;-)
Well, that's how I'd do it if *I* was a Quality Computer Manufacturer, anyway
That's not spam, because we're contacting genuine potential customers.
You do realise that spam is termed 'U.C.E.' as in Unsolicited commercial email?
The phrase "but I'm just contacting genuine potential customers" is the mainstay of every spammers excuse list.
I do applaud your sales guy for snail-mailing things out - it's likely to have more credibility anyway compared to having your message slotted in between v1argara and peni5 enlargement offers.
Something I've wondered about is the legalities of 'fuzzy' recordings.
eg : you download a 160kbps MP3, the RIAA gives you a court order for copyright infringement. The copyright is for a song that they have the rights for.
But is their copyright valid for the digital representation of the song? The RIAA'd argue yes , of course it is, after all CD's contain binary 16 bit samples of audio at 44.1kHz.
But, even with your leet 160kbps mp3, you don't have an exact duplicate in it's entirety - not by a long shot. Could you argue that your MP3 is just a summary of the original work? It's 1/10th the size, isn't it? To draw (hah!) a parallel in the art world, does my rough sketch of monet's sunflowers constitute copyright infringement? Hardly.
Take a leaf from the SCO debacle, and print out a copy of both the CD digital audio and your MP3 onto paper and politely ask the prosecutor to underline the offending parts of your data for you. Just the sheer difference in size of your printouts would go some way in convincing the court that they are not the same.
If they pull the "for all intents and purposes" response, just wheel out the expert witnesses and the double-blind tests, and the sonographs of distortion. You should be able to prove that the audio that your collection of bits on your drive represent is completely different to the audio from the collection of bits on the CD.
What am I missing here? Why is this defence not used?
Have you seen the TOS on your typical ISP lately?
Fat fucking chance of suing them for *anything*.
Support Guy : "Oh, I'm sorry, our routers forwarded the ping-of-death to your PC and erased it's drive with all your data? That's a shame, because you *know* that our TOS states that we are *not* responsible for anything that we do. In fact, paragraph 134 explicitly states that we're *allowed* to screw over your computer as many times as we feel necessary, without notice. Thanks, and have a nice day! *click*"
SAS uses sonic boom to scare the crap out of some bunch of guys
quote
Let's see :
:
- Most of them already have some web interface.
- Some of them allow you to access this interface from the internet.
- All of them are firmware upgradeable, so they have *some* sort of easily-erasable memory in it.
- Some have an obvious directory structure that is read-writeable when you (t)ftp to it. If you're really lucky, this area can include the web pages your router uses to show you info.
So it seems all you mostly have to do is
- bend router firmware to allow non-local network access to point to a dir with your website in it.
- Add a link to existing router web pages to point to your "outside" site , so you can test/see it.
Hmmm. Might just have to suss this out a bit more... could be handy.
I have no idea how much an average printing run costs for your average paper, but surely it'd be a packet.
So, how hard would it be for a newspaper co to go moderately into 'offline' e-news?
What if you could buy a decent reader for 10 bucks (subsidised) and just zap the content in every day for 50 cents a pop? A 100-page pdf / zipped html of the daily paper'd have to fit in 32MB, even with pics. Perhaps you could keep yesterday's news as well , until you run out of storage space.
For those with slow net connections, you could wander into your nearest newsagent, give them yesterday's card and get another card with todays news. The advantage there being that it could be updated throughout the day, rather than the "print it at 3am - good till tommorrow" approach. Your old card simply gets flashed again , ready for someone else tomorrow.
After the initial outlay (subsidised readers, cards etc) , would it balance out in the end?
If only the RIAA could implement product activation on CD's... then everybody would be happy.
But they do! They require you to give them (or their agents) a specially authenticated token - in exchange for this, you recieve an activated CD from them you can legally use, without fear of punishment or retribution. Certain different tokens (or combinations thereof) also allow you to volume license CD's from them. As it stands today, without this token-based product activation scheme , you cannot legally acquire a CD from them.
If you are found in possession of copied or improperly activated CD's , the punishments can be severe.
You can obtain these tokens in exchange for goods or services you provide, so you can buy more CD's. The tokens themselves are rigorously scrutinised and authenticated by an organisation called a 'Treasury', so you know that they're secure.
that's right, I remember that bit now ;-)