Think of this utopia: The government is honest, never abuses info collected about the people, allows you to do mostly anything that doesn't mean serious harm to others, doesn't steal from you, that respects you and provides you with all basic necessities a good government should. Now would you really mind having a lot of data about yourself collected, then analysed for potential abuses of the system, then discarded when none, or some not important enough are found? While knowing that whoever actually tries to ruin your life will be caught and stopped just the same you would be if you actually meant some serious harm?
Welcome to Finland. Or any other Nordic country for that matter.
Maybe we're just crazy, put people here generally trust the goverment, and the goverment has pretty much earned that trust. This is why many of us are pretty much taken aback on how people in US (and UK) are reacting to ID cards - what is so bad about them? But then again, maybe over there you do not have an equal degree of trust.
(This is coming from somebody who really would have liked to visit InterOp but the company budget did not allow for it. I really would have liked this one last trip to the US, because I'm not going anywhere near the United States after September 30th - that is when they start taking those mugshots even for the travellers coming in from visa-waiver-countries.)
It turns out that all my XFS patches went in, including the one to make XFS use USER_HZ (which is 100). So you now want to set XFS_HZ to 100. I'll update the web page ASAP.
XFS works fine, the only thing of note is noted in Documentation/laptop-mode.txt:
* If you have XFS, make SURE that you set the XFS_HZ value in the control script
correctly, to the value of HZ of your running kernel. Laptop mode will not
work correctly if it is set too low, and you may lose data if it is set too
high. The reason for this problem is that XFS does not export its sysctl
variables in centisecs (like most other subsystems do) but in "jiffies",
which is an internal kernel measure. Once this is fixed things will get better.
So you have to set the parameter (default in the script is 1000). Works just fine for me.
Check out the now merged laptop mode. Allows you to really save that battery. It is also good on my home server that uses hostap - there is not too much to write on disk, so I'll set the timeout to something like once a week...
A definite must for laptop users that want a little more operating hours from their batteries.
Great, you can probably now see significant quality increase as well. If you otherwise cannot see the difference, switch subtitles on (whatever language) and look at the font clarity:)
Regions are not the problem, the problem is the differance between the PAL and NTSC formats. You could have a region free DVD player, but all those DVD's from eurpoe are PAL formatted, which means you need a PAL tv or a way to convert the PAL signal to NTSC. I heard the only way to play them is on a laptop because most laptops can display PAL.
I live in Finland, which is a PAL country. These days I have a new multinorm widescreen TV.
However, before that, all I had was an old 21" 4:3 tube that had never heard of NTSC. Yet I could easily play R1/NTSC DVDs - without conversions.
How? Component signal format. The TV also accepted RGB (In the US, YPbPr is more common). PAL and NTSC color codings are both ways to transmit color information. If I use RGB, the information is in "raw" format that the TV understands anyway.
Only requirement is that the TV can sync to both 50 and 60 Hz signals. This is very common and not advertised too often - even old tubes from the 60's could do it.
Use component format whenever you can. The picture quality increases tremendously compared to composite (S-Video is a compromise, and you still need to worry about PAL/NTSC). this does not only apply to DVD players, but also game consoles and whatever else you are connecting to TV.
You're right. Didn't notice that the x86 versions were gone. I've once borked my system and was able to get it going again using rescue tarballs (I guess I could have also used the liveCD and fixed the system from there). Back then the x86 versions did exist.
Try "emerge --unmerge glibc"; this is dangerous, and it will kill your box to the point where emerge doesn't work (at least, it'll remove libc.so.6, and when I've lost that file due to a HDD fault, it's impossible to emerge anything). Gentoo doesn't even warn you that it's risky, just lets you do it.
In/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files you have several "rescue" tarballs for portage. Read the README.RESCUE for details. Basically there are statically linked versions of emerge. Then you can repair the rest of the system.
As long as they are not going to find bunch of Oricalcum beads and start converting themselves to higher beings (or making nuclear bombs), good luck for them..
But the first thing I thought when I saw the news was the good adventure game by Lucasarts game.
Software, even software written in text, even OSS, is already visually designed. It always has been. Flow charts, diagrams, screenshot mockups -- shit, I've gotten specs that were nothing more than a drawing on a paper plate.
The only difference is that Bill forsees getting rid of the intermediate step of writing code to represent the visual system.
In Univ, we did a couple of exercises. The task was to write a simple SIP client (just session establishment, nothing transferred) and server. We did it first in C using some standard libraries. Then we did the same thing with Telelogic'sSDL Suite. We basically drew the state machines in a flowchart (only the application layer). We then hit "generate" and it created a bunch of C code that went through gcc.
With the SDL, I could practically convert RFC to a working protocol stack in a few hours. Of course, there was no transport layer or anything - I guess they supply a set of standard protocols like TCP/IP-stack, but we never got around to check it out. The application-layer endpoints were directly connected.
Oh, and I don't consider myself a coder. I know C++ and can write some shell scripts. I basically want the computer to DO some things, and not spend time telling it how to do it. Back in the 80's on my C-64 I told the computer "10 PRINT "Hello!":GOTO 10...we have not gotten too far from those days yet.
If someone invents a programming language that includes a way to tell computer "do what I meant it to do and stop complaining about irrelevant crap", I might consider programming as a way to make living:)
This is going to be a real killer app for me, as soon as they add more languages besides english.
Lot of my searches are in my own language, that is Finnish. Naturally, they cannot really guess what pages are related to computers or astronomy (my interests) when they are not in english.
For example, when I search for "Austin" I get (depending on the slider) either the city page for Austin, TX or the local astronomy society. For my hometown of Tampere, Finland I get either the town page or Tampere University of Technology (because it has pages in english). My local club is not listed.
Okay, since there seem to be folks that are actually taking this guy seriously, I guess I really have to debunk him point by point:
1. Cisco routers suck at IPv6.
One word: IOS 12.3. Also, in 12.3T series, you get functionalities like stateful firewalls for IPv6. Check out Cisco's IPv6 status here.
2. There are too many addresses.
640 kB should be enough for everybody.
And yeah, I know Bill Gates never said that.
IPv6 addresses are too large. The problem with a 64-bit network prefix is that routing tables become massive.
This has been addressed. Summary routes are there. The IPv6 addressing structure is quite hierarchical, so even that/64 prefix that the end-user sees is quite nicely broken down into categories.
4. The IPv6 header is too large
Minimum MTU for IPv6 is 1280 bytes, not 576. Also, IPv6 header structure is extendable, ie the last field in IPv6 header is a pointer to an optional field. This optional field can in addition to it's own information refer to even more fields, in daisy-chain fashion. There is much bloat in IPv4 headers and lots of bit-alignment problems when building hardware to forward IPv4. IPv6 addresses these details by daisy-chaining optional headers and keeping the stationary fields simple.
Hey, you can probably tell if this thing has a subtitle support?
The doc says that you can use "spumux spumux.xml < input.mpg > output.mpg" to add subtitles to your mpg, but it does not really elaborate. Because there is no option to select subtitle numbering or anything, this leads me to believe that the subtitles are burned into the image and not really selectable (on/off) in the DVD player.
Actually, our application for subtitles is to do a vacation DVD from trip to Australia with friends (Dec 2002 Solar Eclipse), with a running text commentary that can be turned on or off from the DVD player...so texts that are hard"burned" into the image are really not what we're looking for..
I have graduated from Tampere University of Technology, in Finland. I remember one course about networking protocols that had quite an interesting approach to course material.
Anyway, the story was that according to Finnish copyright law, the definition of "fair use" is that you can quote/copy or whatever up to 20 pages of a "publication" (not sure if that absolute page number is a real value or not). Anyway, the point was that different editions of the same book constitute as different "publications".
As you can see on the course page, the course material includes several "chapters" from Stallings book about datacomm. The page says "fifth edition". However, the actual material was distributed as a 100-page photocopied collection. 20 pages from first edition, 20 pages from the second, 20 pages from the third...you get the idea.
Students in that course kinda liked the idea, saved us some money:) I'm not sure if this would ever be applicable to United States.
yep, next thing you know, those companies who make huge use of pop ups and pop unders will sue MS for lost revenue:) Will it even surprise you?
No, because it has happened before. Back in the '99 or something, when IE 5 (with Outlook Express) was coming, they had a spam filter (just a simple keyword-based one, but it could have evolved) included. Some company sued them and they caved in outside of court. The spamfilter never made it into final version.
So, that is the reason. I was wondering why I haven't been getting moderator points for a while. After all, I can meta-moderate.
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I made my first trip to States in September. I didn't have too much time to watch TV, but I kept it on when I was in my hotel room, and I noticed a few things about the commercials compared to Finnish ones.
- Commercials every 5-7 minutes (and they lasted 5-7 minutes, too!)
- LOTS of car commercials. And the arguments were not about fuel economy, environment, or safety, but how fast and impressive they were.
The most absurd commercial I saw were clips advocating coal energy. The tagline was like "Electricity from coal: Cleaner, more affordable and abudantly better.".
Also, regarding the article: I remember watching some sort of short documentary by Playboy a few years back, and they also covered commercials in Europe. I was quite fascinated when the narrator and commentaries were like "How can you even remember what they are advertising, this is hot stuff" - In a Rexona ad, two women get sweaty at the gym and afterwards go take a shower and use Rexona's soap. I don't think anyone in here would have considered that erotic or arousing, but apparently to American eyes it was like hard-core porn:)
but every Windows & Dos version released, like, ever. I consider that either non-consistent and/or cheating. Either include every release of non-MS-systems as well or then just single representation from each product line. Pick one from each series: MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT.
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Think of this utopia: The government is honest, never abuses info collected about the people, allows you to do mostly anything that doesn't mean serious harm to others, doesn't steal from you, that respects you and provides you with all basic necessities a good government should.
Now would you really mind having a lot of data about yourself collected, then analysed for potential abuses of the system, then discarded when none, or some not important enough are found? While knowing that whoever actually tries to ruin your life will be caught and stopped just the same you would be if you actually meant some serious harm?
Welcome to Finland. Or any other Nordic country for that matter.
Maybe we're just crazy, put people here generally trust the goverment, and the goverment has pretty much earned that trust. This is why many of us are pretty much taken aback on how people in US (and UK) are reacting to ID cards - what is so bad about them? But then again, maybe over there you do not have an equal degree of trust.
(This is coming from somebody who really would have liked to visit InterOp but the company budget did not allow for it. I really would have liked this one last trip to the US, because I'm not going anywhere near the United States after September 30th - that is when they start taking those mugshots even for the travellers coming in from visa-waiver-countries.)
It turns out that all my XFS patches went in, including the one to make XFS use USER_HZ (which is 100). So you now want to set XFS_HZ to 100. I'll update the web page ASAP.
:)
Okay...Luckily, no data lost yet
Check out the now merged laptop mode. Allows you to really save that battery. It is also good on my home server that uses hostap - there is not too much to write on disk, so I'll set the timeout to something like once a week...
A definite must for laptop users that want a little more operating hours from their batteries.
Great, you can probably now see significant quality increase as well. If you otherwise cannot see the difference, switch subtitles on (whatever language) and look at the font clarity :)
Regions are not the problem, the problem is the differance between the PAL and NTSC formats. You could have a region free DVD player, but all those DVD's from eurpoe are PAL formatted, which means you need a PAL tv or a way to convert the PAL signal to NTSC. I heard the only way to play them is on a laptop because most laptops can display PAL.
I live in Finland, which is a PAL country. These days I have a new multinorm widescreen TV.
However, before that, all I had was an old 21" 4:3 tube that had never heard of NTSC. Yet I could easily play R1/NTSC DVDs - without conversions.
How? Component signal format. The TV also accepted RGB (In the US, YPbPr is more common). PAL and NTSC color codings are both ways to transmit color information. If I use RGB, the information is in "raw" format that the TV understands anyway.
Only requirement is that the TV can sync to both 50 and 60 Hz signals. This is very common and not advertised too often - even old tubes from the 60's could do it.
Use component format whenever you can. The picture quality increases tremendously compared to composite (S-Video is a compromise, and you still need to worry about PAL/NTSC). this does not only apply to DVD players, but also game consoles and whatever else you are connecting to TV.
You're right. Didn't notice that the x86 versions were gone. I've once borked my system and was able to get it going again using rescue tarballs (I guess I could have also used the liveCD and fixed the system from there). Back then the x86 versions did exist.
Try "emerge --unmerge glibc"; this is dangerous, and it will kill your box to the point where emerge doesn't work (at least, it'll remove libc.so.6, and when I've lost that file due to a HDD fault, it's impossible to emerge anything). Gentoo doesn't even warn you that it's risky, just lets you do it.
/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files you have several "rescue" tarballs for portage. Read the README.RESCUE for details. Basically there are statically linked versions of emerge. Then you can repair the rest of the system.
In
As long as they are not going to find bunch of Oricalcum beads and start converting themselves to higher beings (or making nuclear bombs), good luck for them..
But the first thing I thought when I saw the news was the good adventure game by Lucasarts game.
Much more detailed information available at MSDN.
Software, even software written in text, even OSS, is already visually designed. It always has been. Flow charts, diagrams, screenshot mockups -- shit, I've gotten specs that were nothing more than a drawing on a paper plate.
:)
The only difference is that Bill forsees getting rid of the intermediate step of writing code to represent the visual system.
In Univ, we did a couple of exercises. The task was to write a simple SIP client (just session establishment, nothing transferred) and server. We did it first in C using some standard libraries. Then we did the same thing with Telelogic's SDL Suite. We basically drew the state machines in a flowchart (only the application layer). We then hit "generate" and it created a bunch of C code that went through gcc.
With the SDL, I could practically convert RFC to a working protocol stack in a few hours. Of course, there was no transport layer or anything - I guess they supply a set of standard protocols like TCP/IP-stack, but we never got around to check it out. The application-layer endpoints were directly connected.
Oh, and I don't consider myself a coder. I know C++ and can write some shell scripts. I basically want the computer to DO some things, and not spend time telling it how to do it. Back in the 80's on my C-64 I told the computer "10 PRINT "Hello!":GOTO 10...we have not gotten too far from those days yet.
If someone invents a programming language that includes a way to tell computer "do what I meant it to do and stop complaining about irrelevant crap", I might consider programming as a way to make living
This is going to be a real killer app for me, as soon as they add more languages besides english.
Lot of my searches are in my own language, that is Finnish. Naturally, they cannot really guess what pages are related to computers or astronomy (my interests) when they are not in english.
For example, when I search for "Austin" I get (depending on the slider) either the city page for Austin, TX or the local astronomy society. For my hometown of Tampere, Finland I get either the town page or Tampere University of Technology (because it has pages in english). My local club is not listed.
Hope that they will add more languages soon.
Also, New Horizons is not an orbiter, it will simply fly past Pluto and get the data. Afterwards it may check out some nearby KBO as well.
Okay, since there seem to be folks that are actually taking this guy seriously, I guess I really have to debunk him point by point:
/64 prefix that the end-user sees is quite nicely broken down into categories.
1. Cisco routers suck at IPv6.
One word: IOS 12.3.
Also, in 12.3T series, you get functionalities like stateful firewalls for IPv6. Check out Cisco's IPv6 status here.
2. There are too many addresses.
640 kB should be enough for everybody.
And yeah, I know Bill Gates never said that.
IPv6 addresses are too large. The problem with a 64-bit network prefix is that routing tables become massive.
This has been addressed. Summary routes are there. The IPv6 addressing structure is quite hierarchical, so even that
4. The IPv6 header is too large
Minimum MTU for IPv6 is 1280 bytes, not 576. Also, IPv6 header structure is extendable, ie the last field in IPv6 header is a pointer to an optional field. This optional field can in addition to it's own information refer to even more fields, in daisy-chain fashion. There is much bloat in IPv4 headers and lots of bit-alignment problems when building hardware to forward IPv4. IPv6 addresses these details by daisy-chaining optional headers and keeping the stationary fields simple.
I would sure like to have -1, Wrong as a moderation option.
Oh crap. Did not read the man page for spumux at http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/spumux.html. Didn't notice that right away, anyway. It seems you can do subtitles, this is nice.
Hey, you can probably tell if this thing has a subtitle support?
The doc says that you can use "spumux spumux.xml < input.mpg > output.mpg" to add subtitles to your mpg, but it does not really elaborate. Because there is no option to select subtitle numbering or anything, this leads me to believe that the subtitles are burned into the image and not really selectable (on/off) in the DVD player.
Actually, our application for subtitles is to do a vacation DVD from trip to Australia with friends (Dec 2002 Solar Eclipse), with a running text commentary that can be turned on or off from the DVD player...so texts that are hard"burned" into the image are really not what we're looking for..
Can you comment on this?
I have graduated from Tampere University of Technology, in Finland. I remember one course about networking protocols that had quite an interesting approach to course material.
:) I'm not sure if this would ever be applicable to United States.
Anyway, the story was that according to Finnish copyright law, the definition of "fair use" is that you can quote/copy or whatever up to 20 pages of a "publication" (not sure if that absolute page number is a real value or not). Anyway, the point was that different editions of the same book constitute as different "publications".
As you can see on the course page, the course material includes several "chapters" from Stallings book about datacomm. The page says "fifth edition". However, the actual material was distributed as a 100-page photocopied collection. 20 pages from first edition, 20 pages from the second, 20 pages from the third...you get the idea.
Students in that course kinda liked the idea, saved us some money
On the page, I read
833786 Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks
and for a minute I thought that, "man, a workaround is nice to know, but couldn't they just release a patch"
Yeah, that's the one. I remember now the name of Blue Mountain (mostly because of the Elfquest reference...).
yep, next thing you know, those companies who make huge use of pop ups and pop unders will sue MS for lost revenue :) Will it even surprise you?
No, because it has happened before. Back in the '99 or something, when IE 5 (with Outlook Express) was coming, they had a spam filter (just a simple keyword-based one, but it could have evolved) included. Some company sued them and they caved in outside of court. The spamfilter never made it into final version.
If someone can link to the full story, go ahead.
So, that is the reason. I was wondering why I haven't been getting moderator points for a while. After all, I can meta-moderate.
I made my first trip to States in September. I didn't have too much time to watch TV, but I kept it on when I was in my hotel room, and I noticed a few things about the commercials compared to Finnish ones.
:)
- Commercials every 5-7 minutes (and they lasted 5-7 minutes, too!)
- LOTS of car commercials. And the arguments were not about fuel economy, environment, or safety, but how fast and impressive they were.
The most absurd commercial I saw were clips advocating coal energy. The tagline was like "Electricity from coal: Cleaner, more
affordable and abudantly better.".
Also, regarding the article: I remember watching some sort of short documentary by Playboy a few years back, and they also covered commercials in Europe. I was quite fascinated when the narrator and commentaries were like "How can you even remember what they are advertising, this is hot stuff" - In a Rexona ad, two women get sweaty at the gym and afterwards go take a shower and use Rexona's soap. I don't think anyone in here would have considered that erotic or arousing, but apparently to American eyes it was like hard-core porn
I noticed that on the list there are just
FreeBSD
NetBSD
OpenBSD,
but every Windows & Dos version released, like, ever. I consider that either non-consistent and/or cheating. Either include every release of non-MS-systems as well or then just single representation from each product line. Pick one from each series: MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT.
i dont get that why would a bar be in my small office/home office?
Not that one, the other SOHO.