Oddly enough, after watching two Harry Potter books, my wife decided to buy the set last Friday. I'm about a third of the way through the forth one now.
When's the fifth one coming out?;)
And having seen LOTRTT first show opening night, I plan on seeing it once more this week. Maybe twice.
I talked to a support person. They reset my 'you can only download from this link 3 times' switch and told me to wait for an email. The email will let me know it's possible to download.
Talk about asynchronous message driven load balancing...
Well, we all know security isn't supposed to be easy.
Below are some instructions I put together some time back for configuring an open source PDF writer for use in Windows XP. This acts like PDF Writer from Adobe. It shows up as a printer driver.
I'm sure you've come across PDF files on the web. Perhaps you've even thought you'd like to publish some of your documents as PDFs. Then you found out it was a couple hundred to a few thousand dollars.
There is another way. Open Source.
By installing some GNU software (Ghostscript), a printer re-director (RedMon), and a few configurations, you'll be cranking out PDFs from your favorite program just by printing!
I performed this install on Windows XP, so your experience may vary.
3. Go to your Add a New Printer wizard for Windows. a) Make it a local printer and don't automatically detect b) Choose create a new port and select Redirected Port from the dropdown menu. c) Unless you have good reason to do otherwise, just accept the default port name, which should be RPT1 d) Select a printer that has all the features you've always dreamed of your printer having! I chose Apple Color LaserWriter 12/1600 e) Fill out the next few dialog boxes as you see fit. Don't bother to print a test page. f) Now look at your printer's properties, select your new port, and choose to configure it.
4. Adjust your port. At this point, you should have a dialog box for port configuration displayed. Depending on where you installed Ghostscript, your values may vary below. Also, make sure you use the 16bit name for the path. Notice my "Program Files" has been represented as "PROGRA~1". Under Windows XP, you can get these names by using "dir/X" from a command line.
Field Label: Redirect this port to the program:
Value: C:PROGRA~1gsgs7.04bingswin32c.exe
Field Label: Arguments for this program are:
Value: @C:PROGRA~1gspdfwrite.rsp -sOutputFile="%1" -c save pop -f -
Dropdown Label: Output
Value: Prompt for filename
5. If you didn't notice, the Field Value for Arguments for this program contains a reference to a file pdfwrite.rsp. This is a plain text file and should contain something similar to the following. (Adjust at your own adventure and risk!)
-IC:PROGRA~1gsgs7.04lib;C:PROGRA~1gsfonts
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-r300
-dNOPAUSE
-dSAFER
-sPAPERSIZE=letter
Fire up your word processor or spreadsheet program and give it a try!
I'm not sure I believe that. If I wanted an image that is guaranteed to not have been tampered with... A missing signed hash would invalidate the image as much as a changed hash. Now to put the equivalent of a signed hashes data back into an image via an algorithm.... that seems like less security.
The 15k was just for public consumption and to make them look better than the.us domain.
Like every thing with the former Soviet Union and Socialist economics in general... You just had to bribe the.ru database administrator with a loaf of bread, a roll or toilet paper, or bottle of vodka to get an.ru domain.
If they succeed in keeping.ru, I'd like to get the.we ccTLD for Pangea (for Whole Earth). It broke up a lot longer ago than the Soviet Union.
No Triangulation , Just bump the power for War
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WiFi Triangulation
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· Score: 4, Interesting
After digging through their site, it seems that they locate you by the following:
Calibrate the positioning model - Move around the area while clicking the map to record sample points containing received signal strength intensity (RSSI) samples. No information about the access point locations is required
And it implies that triangulation is not involved:
Ekahau technology offers more comprehensive feature set than any competing technology on the market. The calibration-based approach is radically different from other commercial techniques, which mostly rely on signal propagation and triangulation for solving the location.
So perhaps if you bump the power of your signal from the outside they will think you are inside.
There's nothing wrong with DDT (Link1Link2) just like there is nothing wrong with Asbestos or Nuclear power. The mistaken belief that life should be without risk and it's up to Mommy and Daddy Government to make it so is pathetic and deadly.
Though western reason and science has brought us to a level of health and comfort not dreamed of in the past, those who hate man's accomplisment and progress continue to try and saw the limb off behind us with blind and ignorant fear.
C# is hot and getting hotter. The skill sets are in short supply. If you are developing business apps I would suggest that it is a good choice to invest time in. If you get real experience in it and.NET now you're bankable for years to come.
This move sucks. The idea sucks. Hell, I could tell that from just watching part of the trailer. Once. I wouldn't see this crap if you paid me. It is irrational and anti-human.
What is it with this incessant desire, where people want the government to steal $100 dollars from a fellow citizen, keep $95 dollars in overhead, then give them the remaining $5 for a pack of smokes? To damn lazy to be your own thief? Get a damn job and pay for it yourself or die like a man.
It says that it records video. But I couldn't figure out if that was just from their ZapMedia portal or from one's cable TV. If it did that, recorded to DVD, and had integrated TV-Guide like behavior, I'd buy one.
As it is (with that $1,500 price, yikes!), it's doomed to failure.
I've had "Broadband" for seven years. A few years of ISDN, a few years of DSL, and a couple years of cable.
After having DSL I moved and tried to get it again. After 6 months, 4 routers on my shelf, and receiving functioning cable, I gave up on it.
I would not live without broadband. I'm not alone. All we are seeing now is the natural retrenchment that takes place after an all out competition to grab customers saw the entry of too many players with marginal prospects of profit. One day investors woke up and the retrenchment begin.
I'm on Excite now but I'm in NYC. I expect that my service will survive even if Excite does not. Living out in the boonies is a different question. They're marginal to begin with.
If I remember correctly phone service only has about 95-98% penetration. There are still plenty of people that don't have in-door plumbing. No market ever really fully saturates, the margins just get smaller.
After retrenchment it will expand again. Years will pass. Cable and then fiber are the future. All but seriously marginal abodes will have fiber in 20 years.
There is an article at wirednews titled "Nuke 'Em From On High"
http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,47319,00 .h tml
A couple excerpts of note:
******
The most likely candidate is a tactical micro-nuke called the B61-11, an earth-penetrating nuclear device known as the "bunker buster."
******
The design directs the force of the B61-11's explosive energy downward, destroying everything buried beneath it to a depth of several hundred meters, according to a story in the March 2, 1997 issue of Defense News.
******
Any debate inside the corridors of power about using tactical nukes will be heightened by the intelligence buzz surrounding bin Laden's possible ownership of Russian nuclear "suitcase" bombs purchased from Chechen mafia.
Those weapons are said to be hidden in deep caves and fortified tunnels in remote regions of Afghanistan.
******
I watched from my apartment in NJ as the second plane crashed into the WTC. I watched as they burned and fell. I loved these paragons of human virtue.
I sent the following email (with the necessary adjustments) to the President, Vice President, my Congressman and both Senators.
For those that have the moral fiber, and are citizens of the United States of America, should do the same.
--tim
Mr. President,
I am writing to express my expectation that we carry out the necessary
actions to not only punish those responsible but to destroy their
capability to prosecute war against us.
This includes the persecution of war against all states that support and
give them refuge. Specificly Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan and Libya among others. The complete restructuring of the Middle East is required.
This action should be swift and without requesting or requiring any
acknowledgement or approval from any other countries. Allies are useful
and required under some circumstances but our defense is not contingent
on anyone.
I also think that the use of nuclear weapons is acceptable if that is
most expedient. I would even say that it may be required to establish
our resolve and put all enemies of western civilization on notice.
My thoughts are with you in this difficult time. Please do not allow the enemies of the United States of America to escape our judicious sense of rage.
Demand that Congress declare War and persecute it to its successful conclusion.
Respectfully,
Tim Notestein
Jersey City, NJ 07306
Appomattox, VA 24522
tim@notestein.com
www.notestein.com
Slashdot Mirror
Oddly enough, after watching two Harry Potter books, my wife decided to buy the set last Friday. I'm about a third of the way through the forth one now.
;)
When's the fifth one coming out?
And having seen LOTRTT first show opening night, I plan on seeing it once more this week. Maybe twice.
Yes, they've been /.ed
I had the same experience you did.
I talked to a support person. They reset my 'you can only download from this link 3 times' switch and told me to wait for an email. The email will let me know it's possible to download.
Talk about asynchronous message driven load balancing...
Well, we all know security isn't supposed to be easy.
EZP ass?!? Is this some kind of wireless billing for overweight highway users? This is just wrong!
Cross Reference to Previous Slashdot Article on Cornell Atomic Battery
I'm sure you've come across PDF files on the web. Perhaps you've even thought you'd like to publish some of your documents as PDFs. Then you found out it was a couple hundred to a few thousand dollars.
There is another way. Open Source.
By installing some GNU software (Ghostscript), a printer re-director (RedMon), and a few configurations, you'll be cranking out PDFs from your favorite program just by printing!
I performed this install on Windows XP, so your experience may vary.
1. Install AFPL Ghostscript. In my case, gs704w32.exe.
2. Install RedMon. In my case, redmon17.zip.
3. Go to your Add a New Printer wizard for Windows. a) Make it a local printer and don't automatically detect b) Choose create a new port and select Redirected Port from the dropdown menu. c) Unless you have good reason to do otherwise, just accept the default port name, which should be RPT1 d) Select a printer that has all the features you've always dreamed of your printer having! I chose Apple Color LaserWriter 12/1600 e) Fill out the next few dialog boxes as you see fit. Don't bother to print a test page. f) Now look at your printer's properties, select your new port, and choose to configure it.
4. Adjust your port. At this point, you should have a dialog box for port configuration displayed. Depending on where you installed Ghostscript, your values may vary below. Also, make sure you use the 16bit name for the path. Notice my "Program Files" has been represented as "PROGRA~1". Under Windows XP, you can get these names by using "dir
Field Label: Redirect this port to the program:
Value: C:PROGRA~1gsgs7.04bingswin32c.exe
Field Label: Arguments for this program are:
Value: @C:PROGRA~1gspdfwrite.rsp -sOutputFile="%1" -c save pop -f -
Dropdown Label: Output
Value: Prompt for filename
5. If you didn't notice, the Field Value for Arguments for this program contains a reference to a file pdfwrite.rsp. This is a plain text file and should contain something similar to the following. (Adjust at your own adventure and risk!)
-IC:PROGRA~1gsgs7.04lib;C:PROGRA~1gsfonts
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-r300
-dNOPAUSE
-dSAFER
-sPAPERSIZE=letter
Fire up your word processor or spreadsheet program and give it a try!
He's working on an open source C# IDE.
I'm not sure I believe that. If I wanted an image that is guaranteed to not have been tampered with... A missing signed hash would invalidate the image as much as a changed hash. Now to put the equivalent of a signed hashes data back into an image via an algorithm.... that seems like less security.
How is this better than a signed hash of the image?
Like every thing with the former Soviet Union and Socialist economics in general... You just had to bribe the .ru database administrator with a loaf of bread, a roll or toilet paper, or bottle of vodka to get an .ru domain.
If they succeed in keeping .ru, I'd like to get the .we ccTLD for Pangea (for Whole Earth). It broke up a lot longer ago than the Soviet Union.
And it implies that triangulation is not involved:
So perhaps if you bump the power of your signal from the outside they will think you are inside.
Though western reason and science has brought us to a level of health and comfort not dreamed of in the past, those who hate man's accomplisment and progress continue to try and saw the limb off behind us with blind and ignorant fear.
If we don't allow the IBM EOL in XML 1.1 ...
How will we ever communicate with Master Control Program?
End Of Line
C# is hot and getting hotter. The skill sets are in short supply. If you are developing business apps I would suggest that it is a good choice to invest time in. If you get real experience in it and .NET now you're bankable for years to come.
What is it with this incessant desire, where people want the government to steal $100 dollars from a fellow citizen, keep $95 dollars in overhead, then give them the remaining $5 for a pack of smokes? To damn lazy to be your own thief? Get a damn job and pay for it yourself or die like a man.
For a more eloquent review of the trailer read 'Unseen Move Reviews'.
Exite@home transfer from you must. Hmmmmmmmm.
Unlike this silly PDA watch, my watch is infinitely precise twice daily.
Unfortunately I can't both have the watch on my arm and see the time it shows simultaneously with out it killing my cat.
It says that it records video. But I couldn't figure out if that was just from their ZapMedia portal or from one's cable TV. If it did that, recorded to DVD, and had integrated TV-Guide like behavior, I'd buy one.
As it is (with that $1,500 price, yikes!), it's doomed to failure.
I've had "Broadband" for seven years. A few years of ISDN, a few years of DSL, and a couple years of cable.
After having DSL I moved and tried to get it again. After 6 months, 4 routers on my shelf, and receiving functioning cable, I gave up on it.
I would not live without broadband. I'm not alone. All we are seeing now is the natural retrenchment that takes place after an all out competition to grab customers saw the entry of too many players with marginal prospects of profit. One day investors woke up and the retrenchment begin.
I'm on Excite now but I'm in NYC. I expect that my service will survive even if Excite does not. Living out in the boonies is a different question. They're marginal to begin with.
If I remember correctly phone service only has about 95-98% penetration. There are still plenty of people that don't have in-door plumbing. No market ever really fully saturates, the margins just get smaller.
After retrenchment it will expand again. Years will pass. Cable and then fiber are the future. All but seriously marginal abodes will have fiber in 20 years.
I don't know about you, but I would not want all government functions on my net. I think the Military probably said 'Thanks, but no thanks.'
Your technical prowess astound and humble me.
Not.
But thanks anyway.
My, you are an Anonymous Coward.
We should use nukes.
0 .h tml
There is an article at wirednews titled "Nuke 'Em From On High"
http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,47319,0
A couple excerpts of note:
******
The most likely candidate is a tactical micro-nuke called the B61-11, an earth-penetrating nuclear device known as the "bunker buster."
******
The design directs the force of the B61-11's explosive energy downward, destroying everything buried beneath it to a depth of several hundred meters, according to a story in the March 2, 1997 issue of Defense News.
******
Any debate inside the corridors of power about using tactical nukes will be heightened by the intelligence buzz surrounding bin Laden's possible ownership of Russian nuclear "suitcase" bombs purchased from Chechen mafia.
Those weapons are said to be hidden in deep caves and fortified tunnels in remote regions of Afghanistan.
******
I watched from my apartment in NJ as the second plane crashed into the WTC. I watched as they burned and fell. I loved these paragons of human virtue.
I sent the following email (with the necessary adjustments) to the President, Vice President, my Congressman and both Senators.
For those that have the moral fiber, and are citizens of the United States of America, should do the same.
--tim
Mr. President,
I am writing to express my expectation that we carry out the necessary
actions to not only punish those responsible but to destroy their
capability to prosecute war against us.
This includes the persecution of war against all states that support and
give them refuge. Specificly Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan and Libya among others. The complete restructuring of the Middle East is required.
This action should be swift and without requesting or requiring any
acknowledgement or approval from any other countries. Allies are useful
and required under some circumstances but our defense is not contingent
on anyone.
I also think that the use of nuclear weapons is acceptable if that is
most expedient. I would even say that it may be required to establish
our resolve and put all enemies of western civilization on notice.
My thoughts are with you in this difficult time. Please do not allow the enemies of the United States of America to escape our judicious sense of rage.
Demand that Congress declare War and persecute it to its successful conclusion.
Respectfully,
Tim Notestein
Jersey City, NJ 07306
Appomattox, VA 24522
tim@notestein.com
www.notestein.com
I once paid 50 bucks for a hot Sorceress to ply me with libations all night.