I entered my own name into Google to see what it'd turn up.
Googlebation makes you go blind ya know? Thought it's supposed to be something we all do without necessarily admitting to it.
I remember searching for myself when Google Groups opened up the older archives. There were a few embarrasing incidents, but nothing that will affect my future job prospects or my marriage!:-)
unless materials used for cd's change, there is an upper limit to this cd x speed madness...
That depends how you're rating CD speed. If you mean the spin speed, then you're correct, but if you're referring to reading speed then there are ways around it.
Kenwood has has had TrueX drives out for ages now. Their latest version reads at 72x the original 1x rate of 150K/s, using multiple lasers to read in parallel. Strangely, the page seems to suggest they've stopped producing them, but I can't imagine it's the last we'll be seeing of that idea.
I'd like to see the multiple-laser technology used to produce quieter drives, even if it means the read speeds are lower. My existing 40x CD drive makes a hell of a lot of noise, especially if the CD isn't perfectly uniform.
I agree that helps reduce what it seen locally, and is the only solution available to users at present, but it only hides the problem. It still means Internet resources are still wasted moving vast quantities of spam around, which is still a problem.
And you know what that means; more bad "cyberlaw".
Cyberlaws outlawing DDOS attacks aren't bad though, so couldn't the same be said/done for spam too? (if done properly)
Spammers already work around known weaknesses in email filtering, and will continue to adapt to any client side solutions. Perhaps ISPs should be forced to take a more active role in limiting outgoing e-mail. A recent article discussed reducing virus infections by slowing the rate of outgoing e-mails - maybe the same could be applied to reduce spam rates too.
Much better to concentrate on solutions to a problem, rather than making repretitive and useless noises about the problem itself.
Agreed we need a solution, but surely prevention is better than cure?
I originally wondered/worried about this when reporting spam using SpamCop. After receiving an automated reply from another ISP, I could see my e-mail address had been removed from the original message.
I'd certainly hope spamarchive are doing the same thing!
That seems to be assuming a typical advert is 8K, which seems reasonably enough. I'm on broadband so it wouldn't have affected me as much, but I have sympathy for anyone on 56K dial-up.
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Geek used to be a 4 letter word, now it's a six figure one.
Some of us have to settle with just four figures: 1337
The majority of the time you'll read the disk to a known floppy disk image format, which accurately describes the contents of the disk. The images can usually be mounted in an appropriate emulator and used in place of the physical drive in the emulated system.
It's not always possible to mount the images as native filesystems under a modern OS, as some of the attributes don't map to modern features. e.g.:
A BASIC file might be stored with an auto-run line number.
BASIC files might be tokenised, and not readable as plain text
Saved screen files are not common image formats
etc.
Fortunately there are generally utilities to manipulate the disk images, extracting or inserting files and performing any conversion needed.
The full-copper version of the Zalman P4 heatsink weighs 898g (that's about 2.1 pounds). That's nearly TWICE what Intel recommend as the maximum weight for a P4 heatsink. Moving the PC around with the heatsink attached could cause serious damage.
Zalman also do an alternative P4 fan, which still uses the copper base but is made mainly of Alumin(i)um. It weighs in at just 400g, which is much safer. It doesn't cool quite as well, but I believe it still does a very good job. The ~2700rpm fan supplied with the heatsink is pretty much inaudible anyway - I've got one in my system, and I'm very fussy about PC noise.
I wish they'd spend as much time and money controlling the amount of spam leaving Korean networks, rather than getting more (ab)users hooked up with insanely fast connections.
I still use Spamcop to report most spam I get, but it's hard to know whether it actually does any good for mail originating in the Far East. Do they not have any responsibility to their peering networks?
What else is there to prove with distributed.net other than they can get millions of people to waste power running a stupid client to crunch numbers?
I think it's really just to show it can be done, and will only get much easier over time. It's also real evidence to convince non-geeks that it's crackable, and that better encryption is needed. It's just the thing needed to persuade my boss that our current 56-bit HTTPS server (yes, really) needs a new certificate.
Personally, I prefer to donate my spare cycles towards one of the medical number crunchers, for protein folding models, etc.
Much of the film today produces images that can be enlarged to an amazing degree, well past the point where digital images can be sized before pixelization sets in.
What about fractal image compression? Magnified images gain an extra level of detail that doesn't actually exist in the original image. It may be false, but surely it's more attractive than the usual blockiness or simple smoothing that's normally performed.
It may not be practical for the cameras to perform the compression, but could certainly be done on a desktop machine before the image is manipulated further.
In my opinion, competing desktops will breed innovation and evolution. We need one unified desktop like I need a hole in the head.
Competition is good, but standardisation is also equally important.
We still have competition in the form of Linux desktop vs Windows vs MacOS, etc - that will keep the desktop environment moving forwards.
This is just about standardising the default look of what we've already got, to make it easy for new users to swallow. There's nothing stopping you from configuring your desktop however you want - you can still do that!
I'm one of the lucky ones, having had a cable-modem for 2 years now, though I do live in one of the first areas that was covered. Friends living only 15 miles away are out of the cable area, and have only recently been able to get ADSL. An unlucky few of them are over the ADSL distance range and stuck on 56K!
British Telecom finally seem to be getting whipped into providing the service, after dragging their feet for years. They've certainly done their best to squeeze every last drop out of ISDN, and held the whole country back.
It's not just customer demand driving the situation, but pressure from regulatory bodies and competition from other telecoms providers!
Have you discussed your views on Internet downloads with other artists? If so, has the response been generally positive? Or do some artists still blindly stand by the RIAA?
BMG, and the rest of RIAA can sell something that no file-sharing app can get you. Legallity and legitimacy.
Let's hope they remember to include portability and flexibility, by using the MP3 format instead of something that requires a special player.
I'd also expect quality too, which is certainly something that's lacking on the P2P networks. Still, Kazaa (et al) are still a handy way to preview tracks when considering a CD purchase...
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"According to the MPAA, there are over 65,744,682 businesses in the US. They actually found 24,361,450 but some of them were big corporations."
:-) ... shame I've no mod points right now.
Heh, that's the first truly funny post I've read all day
I entered my own name into Google to see what it'd turn up.
:-)
Googlebation makes you go blind ya know? Thought it's supposed to be something we all do without necessarily admitting to it.
I remember searching for myself when Google Groups opened up the older archives. There were a few embarrasing incidents, but nothing that will affect my future job prospects or my marriage!
Going from your post subject I was expecting "Free, as in women". Ah well.
unless materials used for cd's change, there is an upper limit to this cd x speed madness...
That depends how you're rating CD speed. If you mean the spin speed, then you're correct, but if you're referring to reading speed then there are ways around it.
Kenwood has has had TrueX drives out for ages now. Their latest version reads at 72x the original 1x rate of 150K/s, using multiple lasers to read in parallel. Strangely, the page seems to suggest they've stopped producing them, but I can't imagine it's the last we'll be seeing of that idea.
I'd like to see the multiple-laser technology used to produce quieter drives, even if it means the read speeds are lower. My existing 40x CD drive makes a hell of a lot of noise, especially if the CD isn't perfectly uniform.
Im sure the old spectrums ran at 14khz..... can anybody confirm?
Not quite... The original Spectrum and Spectrum + ran at 3.5MHz, and the 128K+, +2 and +3 all ran at ~3.54MHz. All used the Z80(A) CPU.
A free Windows port of LBA (known as Relentless in the US) is available. It's still in beta but already runs extremely well.
Note: this is the updated game engine, so you'll need the original game for the data files (as is the case for most ported versions).
Acording to Netcraft, the site runs Microsoft-IIS (v5). I guess those guys did not read their own study
;-)
Er, but the study said:
"Linux offers a cost advantage of 6 percent over Windows for running Web applications over that same time frame"
So they're actually using it for the only purpose where Linux comes out ahead!
Perfect client side email filtering.
I agree that helps reduce what it seen locally, and is the only solution available to users at present, but it only hides the problem. It still means Internet resources are still wasted moving vast quantities of spam around, which is still a problem.
And you know what that means; more bad "cyberlaw".
Cyberlaws outlawing DDOS attacks aren't bad though, so couldn't the same be said/done for spam too? (if done properly)
Spammers already work around known weaknesses in email filtering, and will continue to adapt to any client side solutions. Perhaps ISPs should be forced to take a more active role in limiting outgoing e-mail. A recent article discussed reducing virus infections by slowing the rate of outgoing e-mails - maybe the same could be applied to reduce spam rates too.
Much better to concentrate on solutions to a problem, rather than making repretitive and useless noises about the problem itself.
Agreed we need a solution, but surely prevention is better than cure?
I originally wondered/worried about this when reporting spam using SpamCop. After receiving an automated reply from another ISP, I could see my e-mail address had been removed from the original message.
I'd certainly hope spamarchive are doing the same thing!
My advert/popup filter shows:
Adverts removed: 64,911
Approximate bandwidth saved: 513MB
Counter started: May 13, 2002
That seems to be assuming a typical advert is 8K, which seems reasonably enough. I'm on broadband so it wouldn't have affected me as much, but I have sympathy for anyone on 56K dial-up.
Geek used to be a 4 letter word, now it's a six figure one.
Some of us have to settle with just four figures: 1337
*sighs*
It's not always possible to mount the images as native filesystems under a modern OS, as some of the attributes don't map to modern features. e.g.:
- A BASIC file might be stored with an auto-run line number.
- BASIC files might be tokenised, and not readable as plain text
- Saved screen files are not common image formats
etc.Fortunately there are generally utilities to manipulate the disk images, extracting or inserting files and performing any conversion needed.
Check out all this terrible code - these people should really hang up their compilers and admit defeat.
The full-copper version of the Zalman P4 heatsink weighs 898g (that's about 2.1 pounds). That's nearly TWICE what Intel recommend as the maximum weight for a P4 heatsink. Moving the PC around with the heatsink attached could cause serious damage.
Zalman also do an alternative P4 fan, which still uses the copper base but is made mainly of Alumin(i)um. It weighs in at just 400g, which is much safer. It doesn't cool quite as well, but I believe it still does a very good job. The ~2700rpm fan supplied with the heatsink is pretty much inaudible anyway - I've got one in my system, and I'm very fussy about PC noise.
I wish they'd spend as much time and money controlling the amount of spam leaving Korean networks, rather than getting more (ab)users hooked up with insanely fast connections.
I still use Spamcop to report most spam I get, but it's hard to know whether it actually does any good for mail originating in the Far East. Do they not have any responsibility to their peering networks?
What else is there to prove with distributed.net other than they can get millions of people to waste power running a stupid client to crunch numbers?
I think it's really just to show it can be done, and will only get much easier over time. It's also real evidence to convince non-geeks that it's crackable, and that better encryption is needed. It's just the thing needed to persuade my boss that our current 56-bit HTTPS server (yes, really) needs a new certificate.
Personally, I prefer to donate my spare cycles towards one of the medical number crunchers, for protein folding models, etc.
told me unequivocally that AOL is the Internet.
:-)
Well strictly, AOL is an internet, which is also part of The Internet. It still amazes me how many journalists get the capitalization wrong!
Much of the film today produces images that can be enlarged to an amazing degree, well past the point where digital images can be sized before pixelization sets in.
What about fractal image compression? Magnified images gain an extra level of detail that doesn't actually exist in the original image. It may be false, but surely it's more attractive than the usual blockiness or simple smoothing that's normally performed.
It may not be practical for the cameras to perform the compression, but could certainly be done on a desktop machine before the image is manipulated further.
talented script kiddies
Whoa, there's a phrase you don't see too often.
Wouldn't they be talented hackers/crackers, if they actually know their stuff?
I seem to remember that from about 1985
:-D
That said, part III was set in 1885, before there were any other cars to compete.
Don't you all remember the Easter Egg in the De Lorian, triggered by reaching 88mph? I seem to remember that from about 1985.
In my opinion, competing desktops will breed innovation and evolution. We need one unified desktop like I need a hole in the head.
Competition is good, but standardisation is also equally important.
We still have competition in the form of Linux desktop vs Windows vs MacOS, etc - that will keep the desktop environment moving forwards.
This is just about standardising the default look of what we've already got, to make it easy for new users to swallow. There's nothing stopping you from configuring your desktop however you want - you can still do that!
Here in the UK we seem to always be behind the rest of Europe, as reported recently in: UK bottom of yet another broadband league table.
I'm one of the lucky ones, having had a cable-modem for 2 years now, though I do live in one of the first areas that was covered. Friends living only 15 miles away are out of the cable area, and have only recently been able to get ADSL. An unlucky few of them are over the ADSL distance range and stuck on 56K!
British Telecom finally seem to be getting whipped into providing the service, after dragging their feet for years. They've certainly done their best to squeeze every last drop out of ISDN, and held the whole country back.
It's not just customer demand driving the situation, but pressure from regulatory bodies and competition from other telecoms providers!
Have you discussed your views on Internet downloads with other artists? If so, has the response been generally positive? Or do some artists still blindly stand by the RIAA?
BMG, and the rest of RIAA can sell something that no file-sharing app can get you. Legallity and legitimacy.
Let's hope they remember to include portability and flexibility, by using the MP3 format instead of something that requires a special player.
I'd also expect quality too, which is certainly something that's lacking on the P2P networks. Still, Kazaa (et al) are still a handy way to preview tracks when considering a CD purchase...