What we need then, is a daemon which creates a/dev/dsp etc, and supports any oss compatible software (90% of sound apps for linux afaik) but also allows mixing, and possibly some effects to be applied.
You probably don't have hardware acceleration set up under X. My Voodoo3 card is well supported but was slow as hell before I installed Redhat 7.1, which autoconfigures hardware acceleration.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
If you're going to quote someone, at least give them proper credit:
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
I'd like to be able to display "funny" comments in threaded mode and everything else in nested mode - that way, you don't see the stupid replies to the "funny" comments unless they're funny themselves.
Do you know anything about the DMCA? It has nothing to do with cracking computer systems. It prevents people from cracking cryptography used to protect copyrighted material. Now how this would be relevant to kernel changelogs, I don't know.
Re:Aqua l'n'f or native Aqua implementation?
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Anybody who thinks you can make a portable toolit using native widgets has not tried to write one.
So what about wxWindows? It uses GTK on Linux and native widgets on Windows and Mac. It also has bindings for Python, Perl, and wxBasic, along with its native C++.
Use Qucktime Pro, export to a.wav file, then encode the.wav as an ogg. Or, if you're looking for an open source solution, try using Quicktime for XMMS or other Quicktime players for Linux, redirecting the sound to a.wav file, and then encoding into Ogg.
I would say it probably does, since each character of the code is being transmitted from your keyboard over national boundaries to the remote machine. However, if this thing passes, you probably don't want to stay in the US anyway.
I'm using Mozilla 0.9.4 and MacOS 9.1 and it loads fine after a few reloads. But it really wasn't worth the trouble, because all it does is point you to the Mozilla site.
If I were them, I'd have Outlook use some secret algorithm to generate a message checksum that would be checked by the server. That would probably still be hacked, though.
For those who don't want to register with the NY Times, here's the article:
October 15, 2001
Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly
By SIMON ROMERO
Joseph Pennell, the prolific illustrator who often depicted the cityscape of Lower Manhattan in his prints, called the New York Telephone Building "the most impressive modern building in the world" when it was completed in 1926.
How antiquated it now seems.
The 32-story structure at 140 West Street, one of the city's first Art Deco skyscrapers, is now owned by New York Telephone's descendant, Verizon Communications (news/quote ). And the heavy damage the building sustained on Sept. 11 underscores the vulnerability of communications networks operated by Verizon and other telephone companies ? sprawling systems that rely heavily on critical hubs.
In the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, it became commonplace to comment on how well the Internet performed because it was designed to route traffic around damage. But the telephone network, including the dedicated data lines that are used by big corporations, financial institutions and others, does not have the Internet's self-detouring abilities.
When they work, the telephone network's voice and data lines can be superior in quality and carrying capacity to the Internet. Yet when the telephone network is damaged, it cannot heal itself.
And while Verizon has worked almost around the clock the last month to restore operations at 140 West Street and service to its customers, the company has indicated that significantly reducing the building's network vulnerabilities would require more time or money than Verizon is willing to expend.
Verizon's building was near the north tower of the World Trade Center and next door to 7 World Trade Center, which collapsed several hours after the attacks. Falling rubble and steel girders tore into 140 West Street, which housed one of the nation's busiest telephone central office switching stations. When fully operable, it serves a customer base comparable in number with all the telephone lines in a city the size of Cincinnati.
After electric power for the building was interrupted, service was temporarily disrupted for more than 300,000 telephone lines and 3.6 million high-capacity data circuits, many serving the New York Stock Exchange, large financial institutions and other companies in lower Manhattan. A gaping hole was torn in a seventh-floor exterior wall, exposing and damaging huge communications switches dedicated to the information needs of the banking company J. P. Morgan Chase.
In the last month, Verizon has labored to restore service or provide new service for customers that have moved to other parts of the city or to New Jersey. Virtually all of the fiber optic lines and copper strands that had wound their way under the streets and sidewalks and into 140 West Street are being replaced. Some circuits have been rerouted to other Verizon central offices in Lower Manhattan.
"The ideas we previously had about diversifying our networks have become much more important," Lawrence T. Babbio Jr., Verizon's vice chairman, said in an interview last week as he led a small group of journalists on a tour of 140 West Street.
Until last month, the most obvious reasons for network disruptions were natural disasters like hurricanes or floods. Now, though, Verizon and other telephone companies must worry about the possibility of physical attacks on their installations. Mr. Babbio warned last week that significant harm could be done to the nation's communications system if terrorists destroyed the 50 or 100 most important central offices.
Verizon, which is the dominant telephone company on the Eastern seaboard and operates in 30 states overall, is seeking to increase security at its central offices, where it is required by federal law to lease network access to its competitors. After Mr. Babbio issued his warning last week, competitors said they would resist tighter security measures if it made it more difficult for them to conduct operations within Verizon's central offices.
Beyond physically shielding their switching centers, phone companies can protect their communications networks from direct attacks or peripheral damage from nearby attacks by routing voice and data traffic to other parts of their own networks or those of other companies.
But Mr. Babbio said that it would take Verizon five years to build alternate pathways for all the telephone lines that wind their way into and out of the New York Telephone building. And Verizon has no plans to do so.
The reason may be a simple cost- benefit analysis. Despite its primacy to Lower Manhattan's communications network, the central office at 140 West Street accounted for less than 1 percent of the traffic on Verizon's nationwide network.
"So much of the activity on networks takes place at dispersed locations," said Roy A. Maxion, a system scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. "But the fact remains that we're vulnerable even after putting redundancy systems in place due to the physical nature of connecting to our networks. The issue should be what level of risk you're willing to live with."
Assuming they are willing to spend the money, business customers can achieve redundancy, or surplus and backup capacity, by running cables to several different central offices or, in some cases, by using several different communications carriers. Several of Verizon's competitors, in fact, have benefited from the disruptions by signing up new customers in Lower Manhattan.
"Identifying potential failures in networks is not easy," said Joe Flach, vice president of the Eagle Rock Alliance, a consulting company that provides advice on disaster planning. "The most important thing to avoid is putting all of your eggs in one basket."
Only after Sept. 11 did executives from the financial services industry in Lower Manhattan come to realize just how many of its eggs were in that one 75-year-old building.
Mr. Babbio recalled having to explain the situation at a meeting in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Park Avenue offices of the investment bank Bear, Stearns. Executives and government officials present included Richard A. Grasso, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange; Harvey L. Pitt, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Richard S. Fuld, chief executive of Lehman Brothers (news/quote); John A. Thain, a president of Goldman Sachs (news/quote); and Peter R. Fisher, under secretary for domestic finance at the Treasury Department.
The group was not happy when Mr. Babbio said how long it might take to restore basic service. Mr. Grasso had been hoping to reopen the stock exchange on Thursday or Friday. The following Monday now seemed ambitious.
"It was not an easy meeting," recalled Mr. Babbio, who spoke with the group immediately after visiting the disaster site, where his clothes had picked up the odor of smoke and ash. "I smelled awful after coming back from downtown. No one wanted to sit next to me."
Re:It still doesn't pass the 'wife' test...
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The OpenOffice installer for Linux is the exact same as the Windows installer. Somehow I just can't accept that your wife can use one but not the other.
If I remember right, the tests were done on low-quality home equipment and were not blind. So hearing "Microsoft WMA" might influence a tester to rate it higher than "Ogg Vorbis" with that weird-sounding name.
As far as I know, quicktime doesn't run under Wine (at least not for me). Besides, there already are quicktime players for Linux. They just can't play movies encoded with the propriatery Sorenson codec, which Apple couldn't port anyway because the owners of the codec won't give permission for a port.
For those who don't know, that quote is from about:mozilla in Netscape 4. That same URL in Netscape 6 and Mozilla gives you this quote:
And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall
be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a
million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover
the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.
from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31
(Red Letter Edition)
Karma whoring
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Download it here, or from one of the many mirrors.
Changelog:
* The History and Mail&News applications now allow you to reorder columns with drag and drop. For instance, if you prefer to have the date listed first in your mail thread pane, drag the Date header onto the Subject header and the Date column will move to the first position.
* Warnings in the JavaScript console now show the text of the offending line.
* Venkman, the JavaScript Debugger is now available in complete installer builds. Remember to choose 'complete' install, instead of 'typical'. Start the debugger under the Tasks/Tools menu or from the command line with mozilla -venkman.
* Mozilla has a new experimental Tabbed Browsing feature. Press Ctrl+T to open a new tab. (Bug 101973.)
* People who like tabbed browsing may also like the mozilla gestures add-on, Optimoz now available at mozdev.org.
* SOCKS proxies (both v4 and v5) can now be used with all protocols (Bug 89500) except MailNews. Using socks with MailNews is covered by bug 44995.
* Mozilla has a new Site Navigation Bar for navigating sites that use the element (like Bugzilla buglists.) Choose the menu item View | Show/Hide | Site Navigation bar | Show As Only Needed to make the toolbar show up automatically when you visit pages that use the element.
* The View Source window now has a context menu with items for Find, Copy, and Select.
Slashdot Mirror
Or you could use Mesa.
That would be ALSA.
If you're worried about processor speed, wait for the G5 processors in January, ranging from 866Mhz-1.6Ghz - faster than any x86 processor available.
You probably don't have hardware acceleration set up under X. My Voodoo3 card is well supported but was slow as hell before I installed Redhat 7.1, which autoconfigures hardware acceleration.
Informative
Interesting
Overrated
Redundant
If you're going to quote someone, at least give them proper credit:
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
kuro5hin is already a subscription service. They are offering their content free to nonsubscribers in the same way that Taco's proposing.
I'd like to be able to display "funny" comments in threaded mode and everything else in nested mode - that way, you don't see the stupid replies to the "funny" comments unless they're funny themselves.
Do you know anything about the DMCA? It has nothing to do with cracking computer systems. It prevents people from cracking cryptography used to protect copyrighted material. Now how this would be relevant to kernel changelogs, I don't know.
So what about wxWindows? It uses GTK on Linux and native widgets on Windows and Mac. It also has bindings for Python, Perl, and wxBasic, along with its native C++.
Probably. What else could they do, besides taking away nestle.com?
Use Qucktime Pro, export to a .wav file, then encode the .wav as an ogg. .wav file, and then encoding into Ogg.
Or, if you're looking for an open source solution, try using Quicktime for XMMS or other Quicktime players for Linux, redirecting the sound to a
I would say it probably does, since each character of the code is being transmitted from your keyboard over national boundaries to the remote machine. However, if this thing passes, you probably don't want to stay in the US anyway.
Does anyone else find it disturbing that MS Word doesn't recognize "newspeak" as a misspelling?
I'm using Mozilla 0.9.4 and MacOS 9.1 and it loads fine after a few reloads. But it really wasn't worth the trouble, because all it does is point you to the Mozilla site.
If I were them, I'd have Outlook use some secret algorithm to generate a message checksum that would be checked by the server. That would probably still be hacked, though.
As someone else said, I think there is a licensing issue that keeps them from offering a DVD player for free download.
He was saying that if they decide to switch to Linux they will probably use SuSE as the distro.
For those who don't want to register with the NY Times, here's the article:
October 15, 2001
Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly
By SIMON ROMERO
Joseph Pennell, the prolific illustrator who often depicted the cityscape of Lower Manhattan in his prints, called the New York Telephone Building "the most impressive modern building in the world" when it was completed in 1926.
How antiquated it now seems.
The 32-story structure at 140 West Street, one of the city's first Art Deco skyscrapers, is now owned by New York Telephone's descendant, Verizon Communications (news/quote ). And the heavy damage the building sustained on Sept. 11 underscores the vulnerability of communications networks operated by Verizon and other telephone companies ? sprawling systems that rely heavily on critical hubs.
In the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, it became commonplace to comment on how well the Internet performed because it was designed to route traffic around damage. But the telephone network, including the dedicated data lines that are used by big corporations, financial institutions and others, does not have the Internet's self-detouring abilities.
When they work, the telephone network's voice and data lines can be superior in quality and carrying capacity to the Internet. Yet when the telephone network is damaged, it cannot heal itself.
And while Verizon has worked almost around the clock the last month to restore operations at 140 West Street and service to its customers, the company has indicated that significantly reducing the building's network vulnerabilities would require more time or money than Verizon is willing to expend.
Verizon's building was near the north tower of the World Trade Center and next door to 7 World Trade Center, which collapsed several hours after the attacks. Falling rubble and steel girders tore into 140 West Street, which housed one of the nation's busiest telephone central office switching stations. When fully operable, it serves a customer base comparable in number with all the telephone lines in a city the size of Cincinnati.
After electric power for the building was interrupted, service was temporarily disrupted for more than 300,000 telephone lines and 3.6 million high-capacity data circuits, many serving the New York Stock Exchange, large financial institutions and other companies in lower Manhattan. A gaping hole was torn in a seventh-floor exterior wall, exposing and damaging huge communications switches dedicated to the information needs of the banking company J. P. Morgan Chase.
In the last month, Verizon has labored to restore service or provide new service for customers that have moved to other parts of the city or to New Jersey. Virtually all of the fiber optic lines and copper strands that had wound their way under the streets and sidewalks and into 140 West Street are being replaced. Some circuits have been rerouted to other Verizon central offices in Lower Manhattan.
"The ideas we previously had about diversifying our networks have become much more important," Lawrence T. Babbio Jr., Verizon's vice chairman, said in an interview last week as he led a small group of journalists on a tour of 140 West Street.
Until last month, the most obvious reasons for network disruptions were natural disasters like hurricanes or floods. Now, though, Verizon and other telephone companies must worry about the possibility of physical attacks on their installations. Mr. Babbio warned last week that significant harm could be done to the nation's communications system if terrorists destroyed the 50 or 100 most important central offices.
Verizon, which is the dominant telephone company on the Eastern seaboard and operates in 30 states overall, is seeking to increase security at its central offices, where it is required by federal law to lease network access to its competitors. After Mr. Babbio issued his warning last week, competitors said they would resist tighter security measures if it made it more difficult for them to conduct operations within Verizon's central offices.
Beyond physically shielding their switching centers, phone companies can protect their communications networks from direct attacks or peripheral damage from nearby attacks by routing voice and data traffic to other parts of their own networks or those of other companies.
But Mr. Babbio said that it would take Verizon five years to build alternate pathways for all the telephone lines that wind their way into and out of the New York Telephone building. And Verizon has no plans to do so.
The reason may be a simple cost- benefit analysis. Despite its primacy to Lower Manhattan's communications network, the central office at 140 West Street accounted for less than 1 percent of the traffic on Verizon's nationwide network.
"So much of the activity on networks takes place at dispersed locations," said Roy A. Maxion, a system scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. "But the fact remains that we're vulnerable even after putting redundancy systems in place due to the physical nature of connecting to our networks. The issue should be what level of risk you're willing to live with."
Assuming they are willing to spend the money, business customers can achieve redundancy, or surplus and backup capacity, by running cables to several different central offices or, in some cases, by using several different communications carriers. Several of Verizon's competitors, in fact, have benefited from the disruptions by signing up new customers in Lower Manhattan.
"Identifying potential failures in networks is not easy," said Joe Flach, vice president of the Eagle Rock Alliance, a consulting company that provides advice on disaster planning. "The most important thing to avoid is putting all of your eggs in one basket."
Only after Sept. 11 did executives from the financial services industry in Lower Manhattan come to realize just how many of its eggs were in that one 75-year-old building.
Mr. Babbio recalled having to explain the situation at a meeting in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Park Avenue offices of the investment bank Bear, Stearns. Executives and government officials present included Richard A. Grasso, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange; Harvey L. Pitt, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Richard S. Fuld, chief executive of Lehman Brothers (news/quote); John A. Thain, a president of Goldman Sachs (news/quote); and Peter R. Fisher, under secretary for domestic finance at the Treasury Department.
The group was not happy when Mr. Babbio said how long it might take to restore basic service. Mr. Grasso had been hoping to reopen the stock exchange on Thursday or Friday. The following Monday now seemed ambitious.
"It was not an easy meeting," recalled Mr. Babbio, who spoke with the group immediately after visiting the disaster site, where his clothes had picked up the odor of smoke and ash. "I smelled awful after coming back from downtown. No one wanted to sit next to me."
The OpenOffice installer for Linux is the exact same as the Windows installer. Somehow I just can't accept that your wife can use one but not the other.
If I remember right, the tests were done on low-quality home equipment and were not blind. So hearing "Microsoft WMA" might influence a tester to rate it higher than "Ogg Vorbis" with that weird-sounding name.
As far as I know, quicktime doesn't run under Wine (at least not for me). Besides, there already are quicktime players for Linux. They just can't play movies encoded with the propriatery Sorenson codec, which Apple couldn't port anyway because the owners of the codec won't give permission for a port.
Because this is an ultimate Linux box, and it's supposed to have the best hardware possible. If you don't like it, don't use it.
And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.
from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31
(Red Letter Edition)
Changelog:
* The History and Mail&News applications now allow you to reorder columns with drag and drop. For instance, if you prefer to have the date listed first in your mail thread pane, drag the Date header onto the Subject header and the Date column will move to the first position.
* Warnings in the JavaScript console now show the text of the offending line.
* Venkman, the JavaScript Debugger is now available in complete installer builds. Remember to choose 'complete' install, instead of 'typical'. Start the debugger under the Tasks/Tools menu or from the command line with mozilla -venkman.
* Mozilla has a new experimental Tabbed Browsing feature. Press Ctrl+T to open a new tab. (Bug 101973.)
* People who like tabbed browsing may also like the mozilla gestures add-on, Optimoz now available at mozdev.org.
* SOCKS proxies (both v4 and v5) can now be used with all protocols (Bug 89500) except MailNews. Using socks with MailNews is covered by bug 44995.
* Mozilla has a new Site Navigation Bar for navigating sites that use the element (like Bugzilla buglists.) Choose the menu item View | Show/Hide | Site Navigation bar | Show As Only Needed to make the toolbar show up automatically when you visit pages that use the element.
* The View Source window now has a context menu with items for Find, Copy, and Select.