Just unplugged my xbox (was my "home theater" since well, the xbox and xbmp, then xbmc)
Got it replaced with (ahem) vlc-server on the linux file server and the ADSL2+ set-top box from my ISP (named "Free") as a (dumb) player. Video codecs just evolved too much for the xbox, and I cannot find a cheap, modded 1.4GHz xbox anywhere (if it ever existed)
(N.B. yeah, I know, totally unconnected to the wall-wart, but where else can I brag of having a vlc-server serving video at a high rate to a DSL set-top box and have people actually understanding the thrill ?)
No display, but with a USB2 port and a IOGear USB 2.0 External Video Card (if there are linux drivers for it), you could stream video from your server (with vlc) almost anywhere you have ethernet+ power.
A poe version for the wall-wart ? (5W is within parameters, only poe is not a consumer grade solution yet) - or bpl to anywhere in your house could make a nifty package...
To take-off and to land safely, yes, I would agree. Lots of training, with partial failures, cross winds, buffeting,....
To crash it ? well, anyone can do that.
To crash it specifically on the biggest, most visible building in the city ?
Like you must know how to increase power and actually aim ? Any Western Countries thirteen year old nowadays must know how to do it...
2 hours in an old-style arcade would teach you those skills. And for under 3000$ you can build a full Flight Simulator(TM) that is enough to learn such skills...
I put a text file at the root directory, reading more or less :
"By actually completing the install process on this computer, you accept to deliver a bug-free software, that will not nag me every 5 minutes with internet connection requests, not hog the cpu and memory and actually provide me with all the benefits you promised in your marketing brochure. This Eula allows you to install ONE (1) copy of your software and supercedes all preceding agreements that might exist between us. Ignorance of the existence of this Eula cannot be used as an argument not to deliver your promised benefits. If you do not accept those conditions, your software must fail to install. Otherwise, you recognize that you accept all those conditions and must perform as promised"
French keyboards do have accented characters, but you have to ctl-alt most of them to get them.
azerty to qwerty keyboards is only about substituting 4 or 5 of the main characters. ridiculously easy.
It starts being much more interesting when your password contains |, @ or &, a french keyboard and a remote system configured at logon for us keyboard...
I bought a full Pink Floyd set when I was younger.
now all the cds are scratchy and doesn't want to play anymore.
Nevertheless, if I am to believe the editors screechs, what I really bought is a licence for those songs...
=> I shouldn't have to buy full price for a new set, they should sell me the cds at cost of plastic and I just exchange them with the ones I have. Or I can argue that I have the RIGHT to download them, as I already have a licence for them.
Don't believe me ? Have a look at Walt Disney dvds. They are the only ones that propose a replacement disk at cost because they only sell you a licence to view...
=>Then the editor turns out a REMASTERED version,which is covered by another licence, and that I don't have the rights for. The version I had is not findable in the market anymore, the editor changed names or something else, and I cannot get a replacement disk. Which they never offered in the first place.
Also I pay a tax on every recording medium I buy, to compensate the copies I will make for my private use, as I do not resell them.
Astonishingly the law doesn't recognize this tax as a blanket licence for use as a person. They want us to pay the tax and then pay an additional blanket licence.
So the market is skewed in favor of the editors that make it so that you have to pay and pay again FOR THE SAME THING.
Dear citizens and members of the galactic Economic Council
The rumors about a shortage of antimatter to fuel or spacefleets and habitats is unfounded.
Everyday our scientists everywhere in this universe are finding new ressources, new anti-black stars to drill for our energy.
We used antimatter for thousands of millenia now, will continue for a lot more. I am happy to announce you the we finally opened for production that galaxy on the outer left reach of the milky way. There most advanced civilisation is a monkey like tribe that have barely learned to cover themselves and there was so to speak no Spaceflight activities to be observed.
One or two derelicts spacecrafts have been observed, but they use a primitive explosion system, so we are sure those Terrans will not mind if we pump their galaxy dry of the stuff.
The message from SF DR SD 3, President of ExNegMat power industries.
My pc is digital. Wasn't there some talks of integrating something called Palladium (drm...) in all PC hardware ? And Vista (and possibly -lol- Windows7) integrates DRM by default.
And I had almost finished building my 2KW Bluetooth mouse and with the Flight simulator rig, you know, in that little shed just after the airport fairway...
Tchernobyl is an old story now. The biological chain that makes mushrooms absorb and retain radioactive compounds is still quite an actual story.
I'm not a bio fanatic, I just know that both my physics and my biology teacher at the time stopped eating any sort of mushrooms just after the 'incident' at Tchernobyl, and they recently told me they would keep on avoiding them for another 10 years or so.
The only exception they accept is what we call the "champignon de paris" which is raised in dark caves.
My ex-biology teacher also told me a little something about mushrooms imported from eastern europe (to western europe) being specifically sorted as they disturb the Geiger counter the less => since Chernobyl, food imports from eastern europe are tested for radioactivity.
So I don't know if in the US mushrooms are such a delicacy, and I don't know if the US had a 'serious' nuclear reactor incident since Three Miles Island (except if you count the nuclear testings in Nevada and everything the press never told you), but I made it a point NOT to eat mushrooms for another good ten years, even if I really love 'les Cepes' and 'les girolles'...
What are you doing, where are you now to assene so harsh a criticism to a brand new idea that didn't yet have time to prove itself ?
Mingling technologies to make the sum of them something more than their individual parts are worth is the ultimate goal of geekdom. Stop criticizing and embrace the new tech !
GPS AND blogging together could be the next big thing !
Remember, young man ! You must always remember your actual position before patronizing fellow netizens with such pontificating verbiage !
(Note | This Mail was posted with Iphone V4 GPS/WiMax Geomicroblogging tool, from coordinates 2.34784, 48.82003 - [Toilettes Publiques] 75 Paris 13 (84 Boulevard Kellermann) - FR - 00.03 AM)
called Clarkconncect (http://www.clarkconnect.com/)
It's basically a CentOs (aka free Red Hat) wich can do multi-Wan. It has a nice web interface fir Firewall, ftp, web and mail server, shell..
No idea if it can reset errant connections, but it can do anything you can on redhat, including using two Wans simultaneously. (chek Clarkconnects forums for multi wan)
up and running within 30 minutes, mine has reached 165 days uptime (Bi-P3 GHz, 2 Go Ram, 4*500Go HDD, 3*Eth 100 (upgraded from a faithfull Compaq Deskpro 400 Mhz "server")- web, mail, and bittorrent dowvnloader (torrentflux-bart) as well as "media server" connected to the xbox with XBMC)
I once had a japanese customer that really enjoyed himself seeing me eat "natto" (a sort of soy bean curd gone terribly mad) at breakfeast in Hokkaido.
When he came to visit in Paris I brought him to an "only cheese" french restaurant. And we really have delicious but very smelly cheeses here 8)
(for cheese lovers, they have a "Crescendo" plate, where you start with a light, fresh goat cheese and finish with something called ""Le Gris", which is like the strongest goat cheese ever, even stronger in taste and smell than "l'Epoisse")
The next time in Japan, I got an invitation to the best non-sushi restaurant in town. Seems he got the message all right.
1/ "Hello M. Manufacturer" 2/ +"5-10$/notebook for a fully fledged, hand tailored os" 3/ +"garanteed OS/drivers support for that particular system hardware for 5 years" (about same as Ubuntu LTS) 4/ +"instead of 90$ for microsoft and no garantees from them at all" 5/+"Of course, it's available now and already running on X millions of systems, it even already have self help forums by the thousands " 6/+"And we will cut you in on all support contracts you bring in (http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid:in 9x5 coverage, desktop 250$/y, server 750$/y)
and you're the happy salesman that is looking at 10 000 000 laptops/year minimum with a part of your salary on them, or, as they say : 7/Profit
Does it compile under Linux ? And can I run it under VMWare Server just after that ?/me doesn't have windows @home since even the GF adopted Ubuntu... And I'm too lazy to launch VMWare to run 2K3 to compile the stuff.
(also:"Its 60MB compressed and compiles in 40 seconds" : Do we have the same understanding of the time needed to compile a 60Mb+ file / You are using Distcc on a Top500 cluster / I really should upgrade my personnal server)
I had to "study with due diligence" a way to make a SCO print server included in a disaster recovery plan.
It allows the BULL mainframe to access the dedicated, high volume matrix printer using a VERY obscure communication protocol only used by old times Bull Gecos 7.
Bottom line was we had no-one(and couldn't find anyone) capable of reinstalling the piece of s**t, the customer NEVER backuped it, had neither procedures nor documentation for backuping or full install and had no disks, only licences. It was running on a PII-233MHz for the last 10 years.
I finally ghosted the server and fiddled endlessy with vmware to have it run on commodity hardware, as the compatibility list for pcs it will run on is composed of 20 x86s that were discontinued by the time the PII-400 was out.
Ok, I don't see a large market in the future. But it lives, still.
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Just unplugged my xbox (was my "home theater" since well, the xbox and xbmp, then xbmc)
Got it replaced with (ahem) vlc-server on the linux file server and the ADSL2+ set-top box from my ISP (named "Free") as a (dumb) player. Video codecs just evolved too much for the xbox, and I cannot find a cheap, modded 1.4GHz xbox anywhere (if it ever existed)
(N.B. yeah, I know, totally unconnected to the wall-wart, but where else can I brag of having a vlc-server serving video at a high rate to a DSL set-top box and have people actually understanding the thrill ?)
No display, but with a USB2 port and a IOGear USB 2.0 External Video Card (if there are linux drivers for it), you could stream video from your server (with vlc) almost anywhere you have ethernet+ power.
A poe version for the wall-wart ? (5W is within parameters, only poe is not a consumer grade solution yet) - or bpl to anywhere in your house could make a nifty package...
To take-off and to land safely, yes, I would agree. Lots of training, with partial failures, cross winds, buffeting, ....
To crash it ? well, anyone can do that.
To crash it specifically on the biggest, most visible building in the city ?
Like you must know how to increase power and actually aim ?
Any Western Countries thirteen year old nowadays must know how to do it...
2 hours in an old-style arcade would teach you those skills. And for under 3000$ you can build a full Flight Simulator(TM) that is enough to learn such skills...
I put a text file at the root directory, reading more or less :
"By actually completing the install process on this computer, you accept to deliver a bug-free software, that will not nag me every 5 minutes with internet connection requests, not hog the cpu and memory and actually provide me with all the benefits you promised in your marketing brochure. This Eula allows you to install ONE (1) copy of your software and supercedes all preceding agreements that might exist between us. Ignorance of the existence of this Eula cannot be used as an argument not to deliver your promised benefits. If you do not accept those conditions, your software must fail to install. Otherwise, you recognize that you accept all those conditions and must perform as promised"
Now I'm covered... 8)
???
I call bullshit...
French keyboards do have accented characters, but you have to ctl-alt most of them to get them.
azerty to qwerty keyboards is only about substituting 4 or 5 of the main characters. ridiculously easy.
It starts being much more interesting when your password contains |, @ or &, a french keyboard and a remote system configured at logon for us keyboard...
"So I have an adress at Liberty St & Church St, can you drop me there ?"
"Sir ! Yes Sir !"
I bought a full Pink Floyd set when I was younger.
now all the cds are scratchy and doesn't want to play anymore.
Nevertheless, if I am to believe the editors screechs, what I really bought is a licence for those songs...
=> I shouldn't have to buy full price for a new set, they should sell me the cds at cost of plastic and I just exchange them with the ones I have. Or I can argue that I have the RIGHT to download them, as I already have a licence for them.
Don't believe me ? Have a look at Walt Disney dvds. They are the only ones that propose a replacement disk at cost because they only sell you a licence to view...
=>Then the editor turns out a REMASTERED version ,which is covered by another licence, and that I don't have the rights for. The version I had is not findable in the market anymore, the editor changed names or something else, and I cannot get a replacement disk. Which they never offered in the first place.
Also I pay a tax on every recording medium I buy, to compensate the copies I will make for my private use, as I do not resell them.
Astonishingly the law doesn't recognize this tax as a blanket licence for use as a person. They want us to pay the tax and then pay an additional blanket licence.
So the market is skewed in favor of the editors that make it so that you have to pay and pay again FOR THE SAME THING.
A form of racket...
Dear citizens and members of the galactic Economic Council
The rumors about a shortage of antimatter to fuel or spacefleets and habitats is unfounded.
Everyday our scientists everywhere in this universe are finding new ressources, new anti-black stars to drill for our energy.
We used antimatter for thousands of millenia now, will continue for a lot more. I am happy to announce you the we finally opened for production that galaxy on the outer left reach of the milky way. There most advanced civilisation is a monkey like tribe that have barely learned to cover themselves and there was so to speak no Spaceflight activities to be observed.
One or two derelicts spacecrafts have been observed, but they use a primitive explosion system, so we are sure those Terrans will not mind if we pump their galaxy dry of the stuff.
The message from SF DR SD 3, President of ExNegMat power industries.
I forgot...
My pc is digital. Wasn't there some talks of integrating something called Palladium (drm...) in all PC hardware ? And Vista (and possibly -lol- Windows7) integrates DRM by default.
again, ad nauseam...
My TV is digital and incorporates HDMI with it's nice, integrated DRM scheme.
My HD reader is digital, incorporates HDMI, with it's nice, integrated DRM scheme.
My TV tuner is digital, with it's nice, integrated DRM scheme (no record bit...ah yes, they said they would never use it)
My radio is analogic. But they are all pushing that DAB thing that is digital
My Ebook reader....
ad nauseam.
Now add a touch of ubiquitous Wimax/wireless in all of those pieces of kit. And they can revoke your licences at will.
And I had almost finished building my 2KW Bluetooth mouse and with the Flight simulator rig, you know, in that little shed just after the airport fairway...
at least for those of us on the old continent...
Tchernobyl is an old story now.
The biological chain that makes mushrooms absorb and retain radioactive compounds is still quite an actual story.
I'm not a bio fanatic, I just know that both my physics and my biology teacher at the time stopped eating any sort of mushrooms just after the 'incident' at Tchernobyl, and they recently told me they would keep on avoiding them for another 10 years or so.
The only exception they accept is what we call the "champignon de paris" which is raised in dark caves.
My ex-biology teacher also told me a little something about mushrooms imported from eastern europe (to western europe) being specifically sorted as they disturb the Geiger counter the less => since Chernobyl, food imports from eastern europe are tested for radioactivity.
So I don't know if in the US mushrooms are such a delicacy, and I don't know if the US had a 'serious' nuclear reactor incident since Three Miles Island (except if you count the nuclear testings in Nevada and everything the press never told you), but I made it a point NOT to eat mushrooms for another good ten years, even if I really love 'les Cepes' and 'les girolles'...
Moderation +1
30% Funny
40% Flamebait
30% Insightful
Just so you know...
=>the US would benefit more with exploring the Universe than exploding Iraq
Here, I done it for you.
Video conversion for GPU/CUDA (an amd64 version for ubuntu heron, if I get to be really choosy)
saw something about this, and they were getting unbelievable transcoding speeds...
What are you doing, where are you now to assene so harsh a criticism to a brand new idea that didn't yet have time to prove itself ?
Mingling technologies to make the sum of them something more than their individual parts are worth is the ultimate goal of geekdom. Stop criticizing and embrace the new tech !
GPS AND blogging together could be the next big thing !
Remember, young man ! You must always remember your actual position before patronizing fellow netizens with such pontificating verbiage !
(Note | This Mail was posted with Iphone V4 GPS/WiMax Geomicroblogging tool, from coordinates 2.34784, 48.82003 - [Toilettes Publiques] 75 Paris 13 (84 Boulevard Kellermann) - FR - 00.03 AM)
[/end of joke alert tag]
Please find hereby enclosed my cotation for :
- 400 000 slaves,
- whips, manacles, paraphernallia
- 100 000 000 tons of stone
Delivery by UPS or USPO overnight at your charge. I accept Paypal.
called Clarkconncect (http://www.clarkconnect.com/)
It's basically a CentOs (aka free Red Hat) wich can do multi-Wan. It has a nice web interface fir Firewall, ftp, web and mail server, shell..
No idea if it can reset errant connections, but it can do anything you can on redhat, including using two Wans simultaneously. (chek Clarkconnects forums for multi wan)
up and running within 30 minutes, mine has reached 165 days uptime (Bi-P3 GHz, 2 Go Ram, 4*500Go HDD, 3*Eth 100 (upgraded from a faithfull Compaq Deskpro 400 Mhz "server")- web, mail, and bittorrent dowvnloader (torrentflux-bart) as well as "media server" connected to the xbox with XBMC)
You wouldn't still have her number, would you ?
8)
Simply explain to him the returns on investment on two scenarios:
1 / 0,5% return on a spam campaign, with all the legal problems he might encounter
2 / Possible large settlement when he sues his competitor for spamming him
Ok, I never said I had a moral solution....
We don't let puny things like "Price" stop us from anything.
Now, about that plane stopping device, please close your eyes and imagine a 2 MW, 15 feet tall taser...
I once had a japanese customer that really enjoyed himself seeing me eat "natto" (a sort of soy bean curd gone terribly mad) at breakfeast in Hokkaido.
When he came to visit in Paris I brought him to an "only cheese" french restaurant. And we really have delicious but very smelly cheeses here 8)
(for cheese lovers, they have a "Crescendo" plate, where you start with a light, fresh goat cheese and finish with something called ""Le Gris", which is like the strongest goat cheese ever, even stronger in taste and smell than "l'Epoisse")
The next time in Japan, I got an invitation to the best non-sushi restaurant in town. Seems he got the message all right.
Just say :
:in 9x5 coverage, desktop 250$/y, server 750$/y)
1/ "Hello M. Manufacturer"
2/ +"5-10$/notebook for a fully fledged, hand tailored os"
3/ +"garanteed OS/drivers support for that particular system hardware for 5 years" (about same as Ubuntu LTS)
4/ +"instead of 90$ for microsoft and no garantees from them at all"
5/+"Of course, it's available now and already running on X millions of systems, it even already have self help forums by the thousands "
6/+"And we will cut you in on all support contracts you bring in (http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid
and you're the happy salesman that is looking at 10 000 000 laptops/year minimum with a part of your salary on them, or, as they say :
7/Profit
And then you go see the next manufacturer 8)
Does it compile under Linux ? /me doesn't have windows @home since even the GF adopted Ubuntu...
:"Its 60MB compressed and compiles in 40 seconds" : Do we have the same understanding of the time needed to compile a 60Mb+ file / You are using Distcc on a Top500 cluster / I really should upgrade my personnal server)
And can I run it under VMWare Server just after that ?
And I'm too lazy to launch VMWare to run 2K3 to compile the stuff.
(also
We already don't Read The "Fine" Articles...
You really expect us to read 158 pages of emails ?
You must be new here !
8p
Darn SCO unixes are still used today.
I had to "study with due diligence" a way to make a SCO print server included in a disaster recovery plan.
It allows the BULL mainframe to access the dedicated, high volume matrix printer using a VERY obscure communication protocol only used by old times Bull Gecos 7.
Bottom line was we had no-one(and couldn't find anyone) capable of reinstalling the piece of s**t, the customer NEVER backuped it, had neither procedures nor documentation for backuping or full install and had no disks, only licences. It was running on a PII-233MHz for the last 10 years.
I finally ghosted the server and fiddled endlessy with vmware to have it run on commodity hardware, as the compatibility list for pcs it will run on is composed of 20 x86s that were discontinued by the time the PII-400 was out.
Ok, I don't see a large market in the future. But it lives, still.