Some webcams look great at this resolution for all intents and purposes. Some cheap ones can be totally useless. (The webcam of my Archos 70IT android tablet is the latter).
President Merkin Muffley: [to Kissoff] Hello?... Ah... I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine... Good... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine... I agree with you, it's great to be fine... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb... The *Bomb*, Dmitri... The *hydrogen* bomb!... Well now, what happened is... ah... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?... *Of course* I like to speak to you!... *Of course* I like to say hello!... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it... They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour... I am... I am positive, Dmitri... Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick... Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes... Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then... I'd say that, ah... well, ah... we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri... I know they're our boys... All right, well listen now. Who should we call?... *Who* should we call, Dmitri? The... wha-whe, the People... you, sorry, you faded away there... The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters... Where is that, Dmitri?... In Omsk... Right... Yes... Oh, you'll call them first, will you?... Uh-huh... Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?... Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information... Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm... I'm sorry, too, Dmitri... I'm very sorry... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.
Thank you! The title in this article is the common misleading thing about such 'caller ID' methods.
Bob Beck from the OpenBSD team says it better than me. (Read the whole interview btw, it's very very interesting).
What's my conclusion? SPF and caller ID does two things, which I would do if I were writing spam software:
1. Encourages spammers to publish SPF records (and they have).
If I were a spammer, I would publish SPF records for my throwaway domains to allow the places I'm spamming from. There's a nice site about SPF that tells me how to do it:) The biggest SPF adopters I see on my site (from No. 2 above) are spammers.
2. Encourages spammers not to spam from SPF-publishing addresses.
(And don't forget, this is what AOL and MSN *really* care about.)
Have you heard anything about the flame going out?
Nope. Sounds like a stupid rumor to me. The media here would have gone crazy about it, if it were true, rest assured. They go crazy about every little thing and make a big fuss about it.
I don't know if this is practice, i.e. the security officers actually stop people who have coins... (I mean come on, what about keys...:-) ).
But in theory it _is_ true, and in fact there was a joke about how people would have to spend 5 euros - the minimum for handnotes - for a bottle of water...
This is nothing new to us Greeks who watch the whole thing closely here in Athens.
Friends of mine who work at Olympic-related services are not allowed to bring to work a bag of food that has the name of a rival company of McDonalds. They are instructed by security officers to use simple white bags without these logos!
People who go at the games are not allowed to bring cell phones or coins with them, for the sake of "safety". Also they are not allowed to wear something that bears a trademark of a company that is a competitor to the official sponsors.
All the non-olympic-sponsors ads at the Metro have been taken off. Similarly for ads on important roads and avenues, especially the ones where there are venues such as the Marathon and the street cycling.
Yes, it's crazy alright, together with the whole story about the linking policy to the Athens 2004 Web site which was mentioned in a previous story, which reminded me of something that happened sometime a year ago. Some kids in an hi-school made a web site about the Olympics. Their mistake? They used the official "Athens 2004(TM)" logo, which the Organizing Committee had said that they will "defend" it at all costs. Well, they took those kids' web site down, because of unauthorized trademark use.
"Olympic Spirit...
However, let me add that the atmosphere here in Athens is FWIW pretty damn good. Even though most of the people are on vacation, as it happens in every August in this city, (and because of that the traffic is very light and it takes me 15' - 20' to get to work instead of the ususal 30'-45'), the happenings in every corner of the city, the visitors of every nation and culture, and the games themselves give the city a very nice atmosphere. Together with all the road works and all that have finally finished, it feels like a much better and humane city... even though we are going to pay for it for a lot of years to come...:-|
Nokia seems to have some history with unsuccessful DRM.
Nokia 5510 (the 'ugly' one with the qwerty keyboard , "mp3" player and 64MB RAM) had a DRM scheme which required files to be encoded with their crappy app (Nokia audio manager) in order to play. Nokryptia is a tool that simply prepended zeroes to the file, where the key should be, in order for them to play, and thus made the device usable by linux users.
Description: console chat via ICMP (ping) echo-request packets sonar implements a peer to peer chat using ICMP (ping) echo-request packets, which means nearly stealth communication between two hosts without a central server.
It has an ncurses-based interface with basic support for multiple windows and chats with different peers. It is a reference implementation for the u23 project of the Chaos Computer Club Cologne (http://koeln.ccc.de)
when you flash your lights to an oncoming vehical, you are conveying information
Which reminds me of two things:
In Greece, it is customary to flash your lights, to warn drivers of opposite direction traffic that they should slow down because there are speed cops later on.
The second thing is that this is illegal, and I actually had a friend who got stopped for flashing his lights:
- "But officer, I wasn't doing anything". - "You were flashing your headlights for no reason". - "I wanted to warn the drivers to slow down." - "Warn them? Of what?" - "Of cops!"
Update: 11/01 11pm EDT by C:Don't know why this was sitting under the "HP" topic, so I've changed it to something more appropriate. Sorry if this has resulted in any confusion.
Read the original poster. He said, manage the system through sudo.
How is that more insecure than logging in as root to do system management? I always do sudo apt-get install blahblah; I don't su, and I don't login as root either.
Of course, we are not talking about using the root account to get video and audio privileges themselves...
In line 1 (green) of the Athens underground, in Greece, it has already been done. Between Omonoia & Victoria, there are such animated ads, of Coca Cola and 7UP.
I turn away when I see them. (Ew... Advertisements anywhere, it's awful and ugly as hell).
BTW, in the very-very new lines 2 & 3 of Athens Metro, there was initially no advertising *at all*. But now, they start to put up posters everywhere, for an added revenue most probably. I very much liked everything clean as it was, and with the historic background of Athens our new underground was very enjoyable - a lot of the stations were in essence small public museums.
BTW2, I like London's underground with all its ads, because most of them have some value; they are about theatre, music, books. But, granted, most of the ads about commercial products just plain suck.
Relevant links:
Attiko Metro, operator of lines 2 & 3. [Picky site about its users]
no policies whatsoever as regards data retention or backup
1) Too bad you don't have a policy. You should have one set.
2) If you're ad-hoc, clarify your position and responsibilities with your manager... If you undertake such responsibility, just construct a policy and apply it.
We're sorry, but your browser is not compatible with our site. You can download a newer browser from one of the following links:(button directing to http://home.netscape.com/comprod/mirror/index.html )
I would think that their site is not compatible with my junkbuster proxy. At least there's the story at The Onion.:)
Slashdot Mirror
There is 640x480 and then there is 640x480.
Some webcams look great at this resolution for all intents and purposes. Some cheap ones can be totally useless. (The webcam of my Archos 70IT android tablet is the latter).
Did anyone else read this as "Cat Running"?
/. headline.
And I was left wondering for a minute, what a running cat could possibly do that deserves a
[the President calls the Soviet Premier]
President Merkin Muffley: [to Kissoff] Hello?... Ah... I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine... Good... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine... I agree with you, it's great to be fine... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb... The *Bomb*, Dmitri... The *hydrogen* bomb!... Well now, what happened is... ah... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?... *Of course* I like to speak to you!... *Of course* I like to say hello!... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it... They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour... I am... I am positive, Dmitri... Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick... Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes... Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then... I'd say that, ah... well, ah... we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri... I know they're our boys... All right, well listen now. Who should we call?... *Who* should we call, Dmitri? The... wha-whe, the People... you, sorry, you faded away there... The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters... Where is that, Dmitri?... In Omsk... Right... Yes... Oh, you'll call them first, will you?... Uh-huh... Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?... Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information... Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm... I'm sorry, too, Dmitri... I'm very sorry... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.
(Source: imdb quotes)
Bob Beck from the OpenBSD team says it better than me. (Read the whole interview btw, it's very very interesting).
Ah, so that's why sites that use the Sourceforge web service have been so slow lately.
8-)
Have you heard anything about the flame going out?
Nope. Sounds like a stupid rumor to me. The media here would have gone crazy about it, if it were true, rest assured. They go crazy about every little thing and make a big fuss about it.
I don't know if this is practice, i.e. the security officers actually stop people who have coins... (I mean come on, what about keys... :-) ).
But in theory it _is_ true, and in fact there was a joke about how people would have to spend 5 euros - the minimum for handnotes - for a bottle of water...
This is nothing new to us Greeks who watch the whole thing closely here in Athens.
:-|
Friends of mine who work at Olympic-related services are not allowed to bring to work a bag of food that has the name of a rival company of McDonalds. They are instructed by security officers to use simple white bags without these logos!
People who go at the games are not allowed to bring cell phones or coins with them, for the sake of "safety". Also they are not allowed to wear something that bears a trademark of a company that is a competitor to the official sponsors.
All the non-olympic-sponsors ads at the Metro have been taken off. Similarly for ads on important roads and avenues, especially the ones where there are venues such as the Marathon and the street cycling.
Yes, it's crazy alright, together with the whole story about the linking policy to the Athens 2004 Web site which was mentioned in a previous story, which reminded me of something that happened sometime a year ago. Some kids in an hi-school made a web site about the Olympics. Their mistake? They used the official "Athens 2004(TM)" logo, which the Organizing Committee had said that they will "defend" it at all costs. Well, they took those kids' web site down, because of unauthorized trademark use.
"Olympic Spirit...
However, let me add that the atmosphere here in Athens is FWIW pretty damn good. Even though most of the people are on vacation, as it happens in every August in this city, (and because of that the traffic is very light and it takes me 15' - 20' to get to work instead of the ususal 30'-45'), the happenings in every corner of the city, the visitors of every nation and culture, and the games themselves give the city a very nice atmosphere. Together with all the road works and all that have finally finished, it feels like a much better and humane city... even though we are going to pay for it for a lot of years to come...
For all you Tetris-et-al addicts, try out bejeweled! You won't be dissapointed!
It is available for the PalmOS platform as shareware:
Palmgear Link
Nokia 5510 (the 'ugly' one with the qwerty keyboard , "mp3" player and 64MB RAM) had a DRM scheme which required files to be encoded with their crappy app (Nokia audio manager) in order to play. Nokryptia is a tool that simply prepended zeroes to the file, where the key should be, in order for them to play, and thus made the device usable by linux users.
I'm not surprised with this outcome.
..."newshell" is better than "newcli".
Damn Microsoft. They can never get anything right.
Regarding Blender's UI: here's how you can form your own opinion.
A pretty good IRC Tutorial on Blender had been previously done in Freenode. The IRC Logs are available.
It can get you starting pretty quick, even if you are a total newbie to this kind of thing.
"sonar"
From the description of the Debian package:
Description: console chat via ICMP (ping) echo-request packets sonar implements a peer to peer chat using ICMP (ping) echo-request packets, which means nearly stealth communication between two hosts without a central server.
It has an ncurses-based interface with basic support for multiple windows and chats with different peers. It is a reference implementation for the u23 project of the Chaos Computer Club Cologne (http://koeln.ccc.de)
Oh, and incidentally, the Friends mailing list was hosted on a listserv at Dartmouth!
Which reminds me of two things:
In Greece, it is customary to flash your lights, to warn drivers of opposite direction traffic that they should slow down because there are speed cops later on.
The second thing is that this is illegal, and I actually had a friend who got stopped for flashing his lights:
- "But officer, I wasn't doing anything".
- "You were flashing your headlights for no reason".
- "I wanted to warn the drivers to slow down."
- "Warn them? Of what?"
- "Of cops!"
Apparently the "hydra" uses exploits/overflows on a number of popular media players - including xmms, which is a Linux mp3 player
Probably a good time to verify and finetune that installation of AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) just to be sure that those binaries are the same!
How come this one gets corrected, yet all these perfectly FALSE troll-stories end up on the front page?
Just wondering...
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corporation, announced the other day that he wants to buy a pony.
Perhaps it was a bug in slashcode!
+4, Insightful???
Read the original poster. He said, manage the system through sudo.
How is that more insecure than logging in as root to do system management? I always do sudo apt-get install blahblah; I don't su, and I don't login as root either.
Of course, we are not talking about using the root account to get video and audio privileges themselves...
Whip me, beat me, make me administer IRIX.
Good for you... I will still to use Linux as a primary desktops
(Note to self: OSX is not a laptops. OSX is an operating system).
I turn away when I see them. (Ew... Advertisements anywhere, it's awful and ugly as hell).
BTW, in the very-very new lines 2 & 3 of Athens Metro, there was initially no advertising *at all*. But now, they start to put up posters everywhere, for an added revenue most probably. I very much liked everything clean as it was, and with the historic background of Athens our new underground was very enjoyable - a lot of the stations were in essence small public museums.
BTW2, I like London's underground with all its ads, because most of them have some value; they are about theatre, music, books. But, granted, most of the ads about commercial products just plain suck.
Relevant links:
no policies whatsoever as regards data retention or backup
1) Too bad you don't have a policy. You should have one set.
2) If you're ad-hoc, clarify your position and responsibilities with your manager... If you undertake such responsibility, just construct a policy and apply it.
BTW, amanda is great for site-wide backups.