Heh, in true/. spirit, I DNRTFA, but I'm pretty sure he's talking about the mess of audio layers.
I mean, it's actually pretty simple, right? You have the ALSA driver running on the bare metal, then the PulseAudio daemon giving you individual mixing channels per app, except for Flash which doesn't use PulseAudio and needs to be processed as an exception to go directly to the ALSA interface instead so that the AV sync sort of works, maybe, but only if you're on a 32 bit system or installed 32-bit flash on a 32-bit browser running in a 64-bit host. But flash is pretty silly anyway, things look much better if you just pause the flash window in your browser and run "vlc/tmp/Flash*", then video acceleration and fullscreen work beautifully. And if you want to run the occasional KDE app, you might need to start the aRTs daemon as well, and if you want to run some "professional level" apps, then there's some procedure you can follow to get jackd working as well with your preemptive scheduling low latency kernel. And games usually need to patch into one of the interfaces or another with openAL or SDL or some other audio library.
Anyway, fun times, if you're into that sort of thing!
A bulk of NASA funding was tied up in the shuttle program and ISS commitments. Money that could be better spent on robotic space exploration and other exciting satellite missions.
Not that all that money won't still go towards contractually mandated corporate welfare. But restructuring NASA's budget is now a possibility.
When I say "don't use ___, use ____ instead", you do it. I've been able to switch most of my family away from IE and MS Office this way.
lol, I scored a BJ last week when my SO couldn't perform a simple search and replace in Excel.
First she cursed, then yelled, then threatened, then threw things. Then she finally conceded and opened up the file in OpenOffice and did all the replacements.
Speaking of which, where is all the dirty dirty Android pr0n Steve Jobs promised me? The best I can find on the Android Market is some Kama Sutra DB with stick figures.
Word... if this eliminates security lines in airports (though I doubt they'll do it right), I'm all for it. I really wouldn't mind if the DHS had a more out of sight, out of mind approach.
If you were/sincerely/ worried about the radiation, then you wouldn't be flying for prolonged periods of time in the stratosphere anyway.
Oh, I don't know... show them how to use wget once, and then a week later come home to find that they've filled your drive with a copy of half the internets:-P
This Ask Slashdot was over in 1 anyway. But wget would work with just about any website, whereas the facebook.zipfile just works with one.
Oh, and just a word of caution, if you really try to use wget to backup your slashdot profile, remember to use the bw limit options, or your IP will be banned for botting. See the/. FAQ for how many reqs per second to turn it down to.
Same way with most of your sites... something like:
wget -r -l 2 -p -k --load-profile [path to your mozilla profile for cookies and passwords] http://facebook.com/
Play with the -l and --accept and --reject to filter out stuff you don't want... unfortunately facebook's undescripted URL format will make this difficult. But wget works quite well to backup your other blog sites, like livejournal, blogspot, and slashdot.
As for myself, I only ever post to facebook via twitter (which also crossposts to buzz and livejournal). There's actually no real content that I post to Facebook directly, I just use it as yet another form of 2-way rss.
Yeah, you're right, just confirmed it on my wife's phone last night.
I just remember thinking at some point about how she finally got the upgrade after months of waiting, and it was still missing something I had under CM6 (I thought it was "Move Apps to SD", which was a Froyo feature). But I admit I don't pay all that much attention to her phone. She was actually quite happy with 1.6 and doesn't even bother upgrading any of her installed apps.
On T-Mobile, I'd been waiting for an update from Android 1.6 to 2.2 (for an HTC myTouch 3G). They'd been saying it'd be out "just next month" since I bought it in 3/2010. The OTA update finally hit on 12/2010. Still no sign of 2.3 Froyo.
Sounds like you haven't been waiting very long in comparison ^_^
Yes, on my other phone (HTC myTouch 3G Slide) I simply CM6'd it.
Read AnandTech's SSD Anthology, and all shall become clear (including why it's unreliable to try to securely wipe files from SSDs, as well as how they can go on deleting and rearranging stuff in the background)
(summary: SSD's basically have a mind of their own (of varying degrees of mediocrity) that tries to compensate for all of the shortcomings of flash storage so the OS doesn't have to worry about it)
Yep, I bet this has a lot to do with money as well. With that write-blocker attached to the drive, you can just use software to clone the disk bits and reconstruct the filesystem and recent deletes.
Sure it's possible (and more expensive) to do a complete magnetic scan of a disk platter and reconstruct that past few layers of content written (and rewritten) to the drive... the kind of thing that the secure wipe utilities are supposed to defeat with multiple layers of white noise. But I doubt law enforcement really wants or even needs to resort to the time and expense for this all that much.
Unfortunately, that second level of forensic technology for SSD recovery isn't cheap enough yet:P
But it's all OK, they're not going to force your SSD manufacturers to disable automatic TRIM! -- They'll more likely just use this as justification as to why they simply must be able to log everything going to and from your PC over the net unencrypted;-)
For the same price or less, you can build a bigger / faster / cheaper RAID of OCZ Vertex2 SSDs. And you wouldn't even have to upgrade your motherboard to 6Gbps SATA 3.0
How to clear your disk cache: echo 3 | sudo tee/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
By default, bonnie++ will test using file sizes that are twice your RAM, to make sure that disk caches get overrun.
You'll really want to use bonnie++ or iozone instead of hdparm if you're comparing HDs and SSDs, since SSDs really only shine with lots of small files. The hdparm results would be rather meaningless.
For my part, I'd rather drop $100 on a RAM upgrade than $200 on an SSD. Once you have all your files read into disk cache in RAM, HDs and SSDs perform pretty much identically. If you use the readahead utility to proactively preload all your small files into disk cache, HDs (esp. with RAID10 or RAID5) can perform just as well as SSDs.
That sounds about right. That's why fewer merchants take Amex. (No one takes Discover simply because it isn't popular - cue Futurama ref).
The rates are a few percent of the transaction, with a minimum of, like 50cents or so. All the cashback cards simply give you back a fraction of that charge.
So if you have a merchant you like or are invested in (like a coop or something), you can support them more financially by paying with Mastercard / VISA or better yet cash, or maybe check (though those are extra work). Debit cards have much, much lower fees as well, but less protection for you.
Yep, same here. I tried to buy something on Craigslist and the seller stopped talking to me as soon as I sent in my PayPal payment. I registered a complaint, but by PayPal's official policy, they won't even look into complaints until 7 days later, to encourage buyers and sellers to "work it out for themselves" first.
Put in a dispute with my credit card company and had the payment to PayPal stopped within 24 hours. After that, PayPal processed the complaint just a day or two afterwards. Maybe before or after the seller could move the money out of his checking account... don't know, don't care:-P
So, yeah, don't use your checking account... you won't be able to get PayPal's attention for matters like this.
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Voice commands work OK on Android phones. Just hold down the "Search" button for a few seconds to activate the built-in voice command app.
"Navigate to gas in " "Call " "Run Angry Birds" "Has anyone seen my pants?"
Sure you have to enunciate a bit. And you might have to copy and paste the transcription to edit it a bit later. But it can be a real help when in a hurry or driving.
It seems to upload your audio clip to a server somewhere for actual transcription, so the recognition isn't really done right on your phone. Haven't played with how long it can record, though... You can leave a fairly long message in your Google Voice account and have it transcribed for you, with often...entertaining... results.
Meh, NYC and LA mostly consist of illegal immigrants / permanent residents anyway. Right?:-P
A lot of the numbers eventually get reused when geezers croak as well... I realize we're not too many generations into it, but seems like that should make things complicated soon.
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Heh, in true /. spirit, I DNRTFA, but I'm pretty sure he's talking about the mess of audio layers.
I mean, it's actually pretty simple, right? You have the ALSA driver running on the bare metal, then the PulseAudio daemon giving you individual mixing channels per app, except for Flash which doesn't use PulseAudio and needs to be processed as an exception to go directly to the ALSA interface instead so that the AV sync sort of works, maybe, but only if you're on a 32 bit system or installed 32-bit flash on a 32-bit browser running in a 64-bit host. But flash is pretty silly anyway, things look much better if you just pause the flash window in your browser and run "vlc /tmp/Flash*", then video acceleration and fullscreen work beautifully. And if you want to run the occasional KDE app, you might need to start the aRTs daemon as well, and if you want to run some "professional level" apps, then there's some procedure you can follow to get jackd working as well with your preemptive scheduling low latency kernel. And games usually need to patch into one of the interfaces or another with openAL or SDL or some other audio library.
Anyway, fun times, if you're into that sort of thing!
The GPS constellation is about halfway to geosynchronous, so they perform a complete orbit about every 12 hours. Something like 6.5 Earth radii out.
Like this?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1215_051215_north_pole.html
- not a reversal. But it's being blamed for some of the recent migratory bird mass deaths.
A bulk of NASA funding was tied up in the shuttle program and ISS commitments. Money that could be better spent on robotic space exploration and other exciting satellite missions.
Not that all that money won't still go towards contractually mandated corporate welfare. But restructuring NASA's budget is now a possibility.
$350,000 in 3 months. * 4 * 0.35 to get his projected annual income.
When I say "don't use ___, use ____ instead", you do it. I've been able to switch most of my family away from IE and MS Office this way.
lol, I scored a BJ last week when my SO couldn't perform a simple search and replace in Excel.
First she cursed, then yelled, then threatened, then threw things. Then she finally conceded and opened up the file in OpenOffice and did all the replacements.
Speaking of which, where is all the dirty dirty Android pr0n Steve Jobs promised me? The best I can find on the Android Market is some Kama Sutra DB with stick figures.
Word... if this eliminates security lines in airports (though I doubt they'll do it right), I'm all for it. I really wouldn't mind if the DHS had a more out of sight, out of mind approach.
If you were /sincerely/ worried about the radiation, then you wouldn't be flying for prolonged periods of time in the stratosphere anyway.
Oh, I don't know... show them how to use wget once, and then a week later come home to find that they've filled your drive with a copy of half the internets :-P
This Ask Slashdot was over in 1 anyway. But wget would work with just about any website, whereas the facebook .zipfile just works with one.
Oh, and just a word of caution, if you really try to use wget to backup your slashdot profile, remember to use the bw limit options, or your IP will be banned for botting. See the /. FAQ for how many reqs per second to turn it down to.
[rolls eyes]
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
Same way with most of your sites... something like:
wget -r -l 2 -p -k --load-profile [path to your mozilla profile for cookies and passwords] http://facebook.com/
Play with the -l and --accept and --reject to filter out stuff you don't want... unfortunately facebook's undescripted URL format will make this difficult. But wget works quite well to backup your other blog sites, like livejournal, blogspot, and slashdot.
As for myself, I only ever post to facebook via twitter (which also crossposts to buzz and livejournal). There's actually no real content that I post to Facebook directly, I just use it as yet another form of 2-way rss.
Yeah, you're right, just confirmed it on my wife's phone last night.
I just remember thinking at some point about how she finally got the upgrade after months of waiting, and it was still missing something I had under CM6 (I thought it was "Move Apps to SD", which was a Froyo feature). But I admit I don't pay all that much attention to her phone. She was actually quite happy with 1.6 and doesn't even bother upgrading any of her installed apps.
Ooh, yeah... then I meant we have 2.1 now ... and still waiting on 2.2 OTA (my CM6 device is already running 2.2.1 or something)
I can never keep all my desserts straight in my head :P
Ha, that doesn't sound so bad...
On T-Mobile, I'd been waiting for an update from Android 1.6 to 2.2 (for an HTC myTouch 3G). They'd been saying it'd be out "just next month" since I bought it in 3/2010. The OTA update finally hit on 12/2010. Still no sign of 2.3 Froyo.
Sounds like you haven't been waiting very long in comparison ^_^
Yes, on my other phone (HTC myTouch 3G Slide) I simply CM6'd it.
Read AnandTech's SSD Anthology, and all shall become clear (including why it's unreliable to try to securely wipe files from SSDs, as well as how they can go on deleting and rearranging stuff in the background)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2738
(summary: SSD's basically have a mind of their own (of varying degrees of mediocrity) that tries to compensate for all of the shortcomings of flash storage so the OS doesn't have to worry about it)
Yep, I bet this has a lot to do with money as well. With that write-blocker attached to the drive, you can just use software to clone the disk bits and reconstruct the filesystem and recent deletes.
Sure it's possible (and more expensive) to do a complete magnetic scan of a disk platter and reconstruct that past few layers of content written (and rewritten) to the drive... the kind of thing that the secure wipe utilities are supposed to defeat with multiple layers of white noise. But I doubt law enforcement really wants or even needs to resort to the time and expense for this all that much.
Unfortunately, that second level of forensic technology for SSD recovery isn't cheap enough yet :P
But it's all OK, they're not going to force your SSD manufacturers to disable automatic TRIM! ;-)
-- They'll more likely just use this as justification as to why they simply must be able to log everything going to and from your PC over the net unencrypted
I would still stick with the recommendations from: http://www.hardware-revolution.com/best-hard-drive-best-ssd-december-2010/
For the same price or less, you can build a bigger / faster / cheaper RAID of OCZ Vertex2 SSDs. And you wouldn't even have to upgrade your motherboard to 6Gbps SATA 3.0
How to clear your disk cache: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
echo 3 | sudo tee
By default, bonnie++ will test using file sizes that are twice your RAM, to make sure that disk caches get overrun.
You'll really want to use bonnie++ or iozone instead of hdparm if you're comparing HDs and SSDs, since SSDs really only shine with lots of small files. The hdparm results would be rather meaningless.
For my part, I'd rather drop $100 on a RAM upgrade than $200 on an SSD. Once you have all your files read into disk cache in RAM, HDs and SSDs perform pretty much identically. If you use the readahead utility to proactively preload all your small files into disk cache, HDs (esp. with RAID10 or RAID5) can perform just as well as SSDs.
http://trumblings.blogspot.com/2010/11/using-readahead-to-speed-up-disk.html
lol, if I'm going down, I'm taking your Nerd Card with me! :-P
Played with it... simple, but not very useful. Use http://broadbandreports.com/
That sounds about right. That's why fewer merchants take Amex. (No one takes Discover simply because it isn't popular - cue Futurama ref).
The rates are a few percent of the transaction, with a minimum of, like 50cents or so. All the cashback cards simply give you back a fraction of that charge.
So if you have a merchant you like or are invested in (like a coop or something), you can support them more financially by paying with Mastercard / VISA or better yet cash, or maybe check (though those are extra work). Debit cards have much, much lower fees as well, but less protection for you.
Yep, same here. I tried to buy something on Craigslist and the seller stopped talking to me as soon as I sent in my PayPal payment. I registered a complaint, but by PayPal's official policy, they won't even look into complaints until 7 days later, to encourage buyers and sellers to "work it out for themselves" first.
Put in a dispute with my credit card company and had the payment to PayPal stopped within 24 hours. After that, PayPal processed the complaint just a day or two afterwards. Maybe before or after the seller could move the money out of his checking account... don't know, don't care :-P
So, yeah, don't use your checking account... you won't be able to get PayPal's attention for matters like this.
Voice commands work OK on Android phones. Just hold down the "Search" button for a few seconds to activate the built-in voice command app.
"Navigate to gas in "
"Call "
"Run Angry Birds"
"Has anyone seen my pants?"
Sure you have to enunciate a bit. And you might have to copy and paste the transcription to edit it a bit later. But it can be a real help when in a hurry or driving.
It seems to upload your audio clip to a server somewhere for actual transcription, so the recognition isn't really done right on your phone. Haven't played with how long it can record, though... You can leave a fairly long message in your Google Voice account and have it transcribed for you, with often ...entertaining... results.
Oops, sorry for spelling "assault" wrong. Sodium Chloride indeed. nyuk nyuk
Meh, NYC and LA mostly consist of illegal immigrants / permanent residents anyway. Right? :-P
A lot of the numbers eventually get reused when geezers croak as well... I realize we're not too many generations into it, but seems like that should make things complicated soon.