98% of all statistics are made up, including this one.
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I've been called both Agnostic and Athiest. Yes, I know the difference.:)
I think of myself more as polytheistic, leaning towards Pagan. Unfortunately, the ancient religions which may have a real clue, disappeared long ago. I feel they died along with the departure of those gods. I don't believe the gods to be supreme beings, controlling the whole universe, but more advanced races to what we were when the legends started.
If there's a God or Gods, I'd like to have a few words with him/her/them. I could learn a lot more directly, rather than through vauge legands. I'll expect a knock on my door any time.:)
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Sorry, that's not how I searched. I did it the old fashion way. I read lots of books, and talked to lots of people.
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Honestly, no I don't and wouldn't eat McDonalds every day. I did back in the day, because it was cheap and accessable. I was stuck with the fixed lunch break period, and needed food of some sort fast and cheap.
I am in relatively good shape. 12% body fat, and/or a BMI of 21. I felt that I should mention that, since virtually no one who would read this has ever seen me. I don't exercise as much as I want, but that's due to other reasons.
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There is no god, no matter what religion you are. I've searched. No one has found 'god'. They've found in religion something to make them feel safe from what they don't understand.
Religion is the early man's way of explaining what he didn't understand.
Surely you have grown beyond that by now.
Some have told me that we are 'god'. That is the best explanation. We are in control of our own destiny. Leaving it up to a mythical being to save yourself is leading your life to ruin through inaction.
But hey, if it works for you, go to church, give your 'donation', and pray all that you'd like.
I don't claim to understand everything, but I know that I shouldn't. Some people believe I do. Some people know I don't. The rest of you don't know me at all.
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It could.:)
Or it could say nothing.
Luckly here, it just says something.
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I suppose that my comment was marked as troll, because I hit a nerve with someone.
Myself, I did the trade school route. I took a year (two 6 month classes) on HVAC repair with a friend of mine. I never got hired, but he did. He spent the next year crawling under mobile homes, and in attics to run duct work. I had an old Apple IIe at home, that I was becoming very proficient on.
I ended up getting a job in a WalMart ware house, making crap money and long hours. I was driving a $300 car with a leaky radiator that I couldn't afford to replace.
I ended up going back to trade school for law enforcement. I started with corrections (i.e., prison guard), and then law enforcement, both of which I got certified in by the state. I worked for roughly 3 months there, where I found out it's a really shitty job deeply rooted in the good ol' boy system. I wasn't one of the good ol' boys, so I didn't have a chance.
I ended up with a tech job at a crappy computer store in a bad part of town. They sold the worst hardware, and the customers were always unhappy. Last I heard, the owner was on the run for tax evasion. I learned a lot about PC hardware, and how to make absolute crap work.
All the while, I was living in some pretty crappy places. I was very happy eating a $0.49 McDonalds hamburger and water for lunch, and maybe a bowl of rice or spaghetti for dinner.
I knew people who lived in rusted out mobile homes, that would get some quick cash somehow, and waste it. They'd have a huge TV, newer car, or whatever, and a couple weeks later, be bitching that their welfare check didn't buy them enough food to eat.
I ended up at an Internet company for a year, making not quite as crappy money. I think my take-home check was roughly $200.
I kept trying, had a bit of dumb luck, and have ended up where I am now. I have nice things, and live in a nice place.
But, money doesn't buy happiness. My girlfriend left me yesterday, because I don't take her out enough, and I don't pay enough attention to her. She doesn't like that my pager goes off at odd hours, and that I get phone calls from 9am until sometime after 1am, depending on where the clients are. She doesn't like that I work a lot, and lately have frequently been out of town for work for between a week and two months at a time.
So, what do you do? Beats me. Right now, I'd get a tattoo on my head, if I knew it would earn me happiness. Screw the cash.
For them, yes, go to a trade school, learn to do something. Anything. Work a hard day, get a crappy paycheck, and when the better job comes along, grab it. It's better than putting a tattoo on your forehead, grabbing the quick cash, and squandering it all.
In my own situation, I'm being humbled. I'm going to sell virtually everything I have, move in with a friend, save every penny I have, and maybe when I come out of it, I'll have savings in the bank to keep me financially stable for the rest of my life, and still have my friends. All the nice stuff that I could possibly own (and do), and as much as I've tried to please girlfriends I've been with have done be absolutely no good. If I know I can buy a $0.49 hamburger for lunch every day, a bowl of rice every night, and be around my friends, I'll continue to be happy. I'll still have my skills, and I will continue to work until I'm too old to type or to think.
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You haven't known many people without money, have you?
Ideally, yes, they would live within their means, and use the $25k to help with their standard of living.
In the real world, that $25k would be gone in a week, but probably less. It may go to pay back bills, but more than likely it will put the biggest TV they can fit in their house (usually not well), some new furnature, a couple nice dinners, and maybe the down payment on a new car. Unfortunately, they'll still be living in a crappy place in a bad part of town. The car will get repossessed within months, and their 'nice' stuff that they just bought will end up as crappy as the stuff they already have. Generally, they treat their stuff just as badly as they treat themselves, which is why they're usually in that situation.
I won't say everyone who is down on their luck is like that. Hell, I've been there. But, most people wouldn't use cash like that to ensure that they will thrive in the future.
I was talking to a friend, who now works for a major cable company. He said they dropped several of their HD channels, because the demand wasn't there. I was surprised, I thought they'd be turning more of them up, not bringing them down.
I get more HD channels with DirecTV than his company supplies on cable. I'm not in his market (wrong side of the country), so his company's decisions don't matter much to me.
I know exactly what you mean. When I switch from DVD to DirecTV, it rescans the devices to find where the new input is coming from, even though the new input is exactly where the old input was. I have two signal cable run from my equipment over to my projector, but one is only for legacy equipment (PS2), and the SVideo (to the PS2) rarely used. It does the same thing on resolution changes, thinking the old device was detached.
Ask what the passwords are for the machines, and I'll ask where your security device is. If you don't have it, your key will be reset anywhere you had access to.
Ask what your email password is that I set yesterday, and I'll tell you it's one-way encrypted, and I don't know it.
Ask for passwords for any administration function is, and I'll tell you it's one-way encrypted, and I'll have to manually reset it for you.
I'm just talking about passwords to log in to see porn.
Anyone can ask me what *MY* passwords are, and I'll be more than happy to tell you. The spoken version, versus the obfusticated typed version are way different. Any of *MY* passwords are safe to scream across a room, or say over unsecure phone lines, because they're so mangled in the typed form. Of course, no one else needs to know my passwords, so they're mostly for me own humor.
These accounts are for logging into a web site. There's no personal information or anything secret held inside. I'm not working at a bank or something. It's a freakin' porn site. Log in, see your porn, go away.:)
I didn't write this system anyways. It's just there. It gave me the opportunity to show how stupid the passwords are that people pick. Damn, everyone seems to want to give me a freakin' lesson in security.
When *I* write something for a *SECURE* application, I do it secure.
But speaking of which, I've noticed virtually every site that I've ever 'lost' a password for will send me a nice friendly email saying what the password was. Some of them give the super-duper-secret password reset link, which isn't any more or less secure.
Consider, your mail server is insecure. Any of them are. I've needed to get into sites where the person responsible isn't available to do it. I request the password and they may send the rest link. I open up their mail however is most convinent (sometimes grepping their mail files), and poof, I'm in.
You may think your mail server is secure, if it's yours. The mail flowing to it isn't. If I had a packet sniffer somewhere in the flow, I could easily sniff the email, get the link there, and go with it.. It's trivial to set up something like tethereal, and grab things at my leasure.
Do you trust your ISP? That is, where your mail is stored, and where you are reading from. If you're on a regular home line (DSL, Cablemodem, etc), is your provider that trustworthy? Remember, they're paying most of the staff mininum wage, and anyone could do something malicious if they wanted.
With physical access, how hard is it to stick a hub between the switch and the mail server, and sniff all the mail? Unless someone actually *LOOKED* at the network and wondered what the extra device, they'd never know.
Nothing is all *THAT* secure.
For example, I was given 5 machines to install at a new location, but the owner forgot to give me the passwords. It took about 10 minutes to boot each one to single user mode, change their root password, and change their IP's to work on the new network. They were convinced their machines were secure. They found out that they were wrong. It wasn't malicious, it needed to be done.
I seem to remember seeing a story recently about an index of virtually every crypted string. You enter the crypted string, and it will tell you a valid text string which matches.
Over the years, I've had to break almost everything. I've even had password protected files, which the password had been lost. A quick and dirty script using a decent dictionary file opened it right up in about 5 minutes.
They didn't really *NEED* a mantrap. It was just humerous that they had one, trying to flaunt their "great" security. I was told before I arrived that it was the most secure building in the city.
At one point, we had a cart full of equipment that was too big to bring in through the front door, so someone inside opened the back door, we wheeled it in, spent an hour doing our work, and then left through the front door. The guard was once again confused about how he didn't have our identification when we walked out.
You're right about the super-duper-titanium lock. What good does it do to secure a door too well, if I can just crawl through the doggie door at the back of the house?:)
When I was a kid, we used to wander around a mall, just because it was there. They had steel I-beams at a 45 degree angle at the outside of the building. One night, we walked (crawled) up the I-Beam and were on top of the building. There were roof accesses from several stores, as well as glass skylights which we could have removed panels from in minutes with basic hand tools.
Security spotted our car, and sat there watching it for 15 minutes. We were laying on the roof watching them the whole time. We knew they couldn't sit there all night, so when they left, we climbed down, got in the car, and went home. We weren't there to do anything malicious, we were just there because we were bored teenagers, and those I-Beams looked like something cool to climb on.
The picture quality is probably better on the newer set, which is why they insist the image is better.
I *HATE* it when the aspect ratio is screwed up. Some people insist that they can't see the problem.
A friend of mine got a smaller plasma TV. When it got hooked up, it was all wrong. I came over a month later, and we were watching a DVD. It had the letterbox frame at the top and bottom, but it was still scaled all the way out to fill the screen. It drove me nuts watching the DVD. The next day, I went to the store, and bought all new cables and rewired their equipment.
They had attached the video by composite, which the TV seems to not have liked much. I switched it over to S-Video cables, and that corrected the problem. Yes, I'm fully aware that it isn't the correct solution, but it was the only other common connection between their equipment.
When I was done, the picture was sharper than a regular TV, and the aspect ratio was correct. It would fill the whole screen rather than letterboxing it It seems to have been an internal conversion in the TV.
I screwed up on my own equipment. The problem is that there isn't enough indication of misconfiguration, leaving me with the impression I was doing something that I wasn't.
I bought a Optoma DLP projector. Even projected on a white wall, it was a huge improvement over a 6 year old 32" CRT. I could set it to about 11' wide, 8' tall. It was really cool to watch, but we'd set it down to about 6' tall to view comfortably. I moved into a new house, where I didn't have a white wall large enough to project an image. I bought a decent widescreen pulldown screen from Fry's, which is 7' wide. We also upgraded from a regular DirecTiVo receiver to the HD DirecTiVo receiver. The HD receiver has an indicator on the front, which shows what mode is being sent out.
With the existing cabling, I could only show at 480i. Finally, I had an indicator to show what I was doing, on the HD DirecTiVo receiver. I researched a little, bought new cabling, and now it shows at 1080i. The DirecTiVo receiver had some documentation showing the capabilities of the various cabling, which was very helpful. I then had to figure out what conversions was necessary to make it work. For example, from the HD DirecTiVo, I use component color to the stereo receiver. The stereo receiver then outputs on component color, which I convert to DVI, and then to VGA. It's the only combination of adapters I could use that were available, and it took going to about 6 stores to accomplish.
On Thanksgiving, we saw the difference. I put on a football game in HD, and the same game from regular broadcast. I switched back and forth using the 'last' button, and it became clear what the difference in quality was. If I hadn't screwed around with it more, I would probably still be using an SVideo cable, and been very happy with the old resolution.
I have everything mated togeter very nicely now. The sound system is excellent, so in the darkened room you feel like you're in a movie theater, right down to the rumbling bass and crystal clear realistic audio.
I don't personally know anyone else who goes to the extent that I do, to make my TV a theater experience. Most people use the TV's internal speakers, or have a small theater stereo, but never put the speakers in close to the ideal positions. Generally, it's either impractical to set up your TV room correctly, or there's no urge to spend the money on it.
My three rear speakers are mounted on the ceiling, downtilted towards the listener in the prime location (center of the couch). Everything is measured out to a fraction of an inch and mounted in place. Even the projector is exactly centered on the screen, mounted on the ceiling, and I don't allow for even 1" variance. It took about a
Kinda like a login page reporting a difference between "invalid password", and "invalid username". If you see invalid username, you know not to bother trying your full dictionary file plus mutations against it.
Admitting that a password is in use on the site tells everyone to go ahead and try that password on all the accounts. Many sites show lists of users, especially on stuff like message boards, so it would be easy to find the user once you knew a password belonged to someone.
You can't reverse a hash. That's the problem. The hash is like a fingerprint of the data, not an encrypted version of the data. You can compare hashes to see if they're from the same original data, but you can't take the hash and find the original data (recent Slashdot story aside).
So, if you want one of those whiz-bang features like password recovery, it has to be encrypted or encoded, not hashed.
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Actually, the current estimate on the war in Iraq is $350 billion. But hey, what's $135 billion dollars between friends.
The estimated daily cost in late 2004 was $177M per day. Take a few months off of the war, and you have the cost of migration.
There are many better ways to spend that cash though. Think schools, healthcare, infrastructure, and job training.
Kind of like:
98% of all statistics are made up, including this one.
I've been called both Agnostic and Athiest. Yes, I know the difference.
I think of myself more as polytheistic, leaning towards Pagan. Unfortunately, the ancient religions which may have a real clue, disappeared long ago. I feel they died along with the departure of those gods. I don't believe the gods to be supreme beings, controlling the whole universe, but more advanced races to what we were when the legends started.
If there's a God or Gods, I'd like to have a few words with him/her/them. I could learn a lot more directly, rather than through vauge legands. I'll expect a knock on my door any time.
Sorry, that's not how I searched. I did it the old fashion way. I read lots of books, and talked to lots of people.
I'm guessing that you have seen Super Size Me.
Honestly, no I don't and wouldn't eat McDonalds every day. I did back in the day, because it was cheap and accessable. I was stuck with the fixed lunch break period, and needed food of some sort fast and cheap.
I am in relatively good shape. 12% body fat, and/or a BMI of 21. I felt that I should mention that, since virtually no one who would read this has ever seen me. I don't exercise as much as I want, but that's due to other reasons.
There is no god, no matter what religion you are. I've searched. No one has found 'god'. They've found in religion something to make them feel safe from what they don't understand.
Religion is the early man's way of explaining what he didn't understand.
Surely you have grown beyond that by now.
Some have told me that we are 'god'. That is the best explanation. We are in control of our own destiny. Leaving it up to a mythical being to save yourself is leading your life to ruin through inaction.
But hey, if it works for you, go to church, give your 'donation', and pray all that you'd like.
I don't claim to understand everything, but I know that I shouldn't. Some people believe I do. Some people know I don't. The rest of you don't know me at all.
It could.
Or it could say nothing.
Luckly here, it just says something.
I suppose that my comment was marked as troll, because I hit a nerve with someone.
Myself, I did the trade school route. I took a year (two 6 month classes) on HVAC repair with a friend of mine. I never got hired, but he did. He spent the next year crawling under mobile homes, and in attics to run duct work. I had an old Apple IIe at home, that I was becoming very proficient on.
I ended up getting a job in a WalMart ware house, making crap money and long hours. I was driving a $300 car with a leaky radiator that I couldn't afford to replace.
I ended up going back to trade school for law enforcement. I started with corrections (i.e., prison guard), and then law enforcement, both of which I got certified in by the state. I worked for roughly 3 months there, where I found out it's a really shitty job deeply rooted in the good ol' boy system. I wasn't one of the good ol' boys, so I didn't have a chance.
I ended up with a tech job at a crappy computer store in a bad part of town. They sold the worst hardware, and the customers were always unhappy. Last I heard, the owner was on the run for tax evasion. I learned a lot about PC hardware, and how to make absolute crap work.
All the while, I was living in some pretty crappy places. I was very happy eating a $0.49 McDonalds hamburger and water for lunch, and maybe a bowl of rice or spaghetti for dinner.
I knew people who lived in rusted out mobile homes, that would get some quick cash somehow, and waste it. They'd have a huge TV, newer car, or whatever, and a couple weeks later, be bitching that their welfare check didn't buy them enough food to eat.
I ended up at an Internet company for a year, making not quite as crappy money. I think my take-home check was roughly $200.
I kept trying, had a bit of dumb luck, and have ended up where I am now. I have nice things, and live in a nice place.
But, money doesn't buy happiness. My girlfriend left me yesterday, because I don't take her out enough, and I don't pay enough attention to her. She doesn't like that my pager goes off at odd hours, and that I get phone calls from 9am until sometime after 1am, depending on where the clients are. She doesn't like that I work a lot, and lately have frequently been out of town for work for between a week and two months at a time.
So, what do you do? Beats me. Right now, I'd get a tattoo on my head, if I knew it would earn me happiness. Screw the cash.
For them, yes, go to a trade school, learn to do something. Anything. Work a hard day, get a crappy paycheck, and when the better job comes along, grab it. It's better than putting a tattoo on your forehead, grabbing the quick cash, and squandering it all.
In my own situation, I'm being humbled. I'm going to sell virtually everything I have, move in with a friend, save every penny I have, and maybe when I come out of it, I'll have savings in the bank to keep me financially stable for the rest of my life, and still have my friends. All the nice stuff that I could possibly own (and do), and as much as I've tried to please girlfriends I've been with have done be absolutely no good. If I know I can buy a $0.49 hamburger for lunch every day, a bowl of rice every night, and be around my friends, I'll continue to be happy. I'll still have my skills, and I will continue to work until I'm too old to type or to think.
You haven't known many people without money, have you?
Ideally, yes, they would live within their means, and use the $25k to help with their standard of living.
In the real world, that $25k would be gone in a week, but probably less. It may go to pay back bills, but more than likely it will put the biggest TV they can fit in their house (usually not well), some new furnature, a couple nice dinners, and maybe the down payment on a new car. Unfortunately, they'll still be living in a crappy place in a bad part of town. The car will get repossessed within months, and their 'nice' stuff that they just bought will end up as crappy as the stuff they already have. Generally, they treat their stuff just as badly as they treat themselves, which is why they're usually in that situation.
I won't say everyone who is down on their luck is like that. Hell, I've been there. But, most people wouldn't use cash like that to ensure that they will thrive in the future.
I was talking to a friend, who now works for a major cable company. He said they dropped several of their HD channels, because the demand wasn't there. I was surprised, I thought they'd be turning more of them up, not bringing them down.
I get more HD channels with DirecTV than his company supplies on cable. I'm not in his market (wrong side of the country), so his company's decisions don't matter much to me.
I know exactly what you mean. When I switch from DVD to DirecTV, it rescans the devices to find where the new input is coming from, even though the new input is exactly where the old input was. I have two signal cable run from my equipment over to my projector, but one is only for legacy equipment (PS2), and the SVideo (to the PS2) rarely used. It does the same thing on resolution changes, thinking the old device was detached.
You're jealous.
Ya, I thought of that one too.. That really weirds me out. Is THIS the face you want to think about, while going to look at porn?
Now see, that's the difference.
Ask what the passwords are for the machines, and I'll ask where your security device is. If you don't have it, your key will be reset anywhere you had access to.
Ask what your email password is that I set yesterday, and I'll tell you it's one-way encrypted, and I don't know it.
Ask for passwords for any administration function is, and I'll tell you it's one-way encrypted, and I'll have to manually reset it for you.
I'm just talking about passwords to log in to see porn.
Anyone can ask me what *MY* passwords are, and I'll be more than happy to tell you. The spoken version, versus the obfusticated typed version are way different. Any of *MY* passwords are safe to scream across a room, or say over unsecure phone lines, because they're so mangled in the typed form. Of course, no one else needs to know my passwords, so they're mostly for me own humor.
Cave? Check.
Car? Check.
Cape, hood, and body armour? Check.
Insane urge to go out at night and put myself in danger? Missing.
There is a difference in services.
These accounts are for logging into a web site. There's no personal information or anything secret held inside. I'm not working at a bank or something. It's a freakin' porn site. Log in, see your porn, go away.
I didn't write this system anyways. It's just there. It gave me the opportunity to show how stupid the passwords are that people pick. Damn, everyone seems to want to give me a freakin' lesson in security.
When *I* write something for a *SECURE* application, I do it secure.
But speaking of which, I've noticed virtually every site that I've ever 'lost' a password for will send me a nice friendly email saying what the password was. Some of them give the super-duper-secret password reset link, which isn't any more or less secure.
Consider, your mail server is insecure. Any of them are. I've needed to get into sites where the person responsible isn't available to do it. I request the password and they may send the rest link. I open up their mail however is most convinent (sometimes grepping their mail files), and poof, I'm in.
You may think your mail server is secure, if it's yours. The mail flowing to it isn't. If I had a packet sniffer somewhere in the flow, I could easily sniff the email, get the link there, and go with it.. It's trivial to set up something like tethereal, and grab things at my leasure.
Do you trust your ISP? That is, where your mail is stored, and where you are reading from. If you're on a regular home line (DSL, Cablemodem, etc), is your provider that trustworthy? Remember, they're paying most of the staff mininum wage, and anyone could do something malicious if they wanted.
With physical access, how hard is it to stick a hub between the switch and the mail server, and sniff all the mail? Unless someone actually *LOOKED* at the network and wondered what the extra device, they'd never know.
Nothing is all *THAT* secure.
For example, I was given 5 machines to install at a new location, but the owner forgot to give me the passwords. It took about 10 minutes to boot each one to single user mode, change their root password, and change their IP's to work on the new network. They were convinced their machines were secure. They found out that they were wrong. It wasn't malicious, it needed to be done.
I seem to remember seeing a story recently about an index of virtually every crypted string. You enter the crypted string, and it will tell you a valid text string which matches.
Over the years, I've had to break almost everything. I've even had password protected files, which the password had been lost. A quick and dirty script using a decent dictionary file opened it right up in about 5 minutes.
Is that a generated password, and your randomizer isn't very random, or does that relate to something on your site?
They didn't really *NEED* a mantrap. It was just humerous that they had one, trying to flaunt their "great" security. I was told before I arrived that it was the most secure building in the city.
:)
At one point, we had a cart full of equipment that was too big to bring in through the front door, so someone inside opened the back door, we wheeled it in, spent an hour doing our work, and then left through the front door. The guard was once again confused about how he didn't have our identification when we walked out.
You're right about the super-duper-titanium lock. What good does it do to secure a door too well, if I can just crawl through the doggie door at the back of the house?
When I was a kid, we used to wander around a mall, just because it was there. They had steel I-beams at a 45 degree angle at the outside of the building. One night, we walked (crawled) up the I-Beam and were on top of the building. There were roof accesses from several stores, as well as glass skylights which we could have removed panels from in minutes with basic hand tools.
Security spotted our car, and sat there watching it for 15 minutes. We were laying on the roof watching them the whole time. We knew they couldn't sit there all night, so when they left, we climbed down, got in the car, and went home. We weren't there to do anything malicious, we were just there because we were bored teenagers, and those I-Beams looked like something cool to climb on.
username: pinky
:)
password: pinky
It wasn't very hard.
My father was older. He served in WWII. I'm 30-something..
The picture quality is probably better on the newer set, which is why they insist the image is better.
I *HATE* it when the aspect ratio is screwed up. Some people insist that they can't see the problem.
A friend of mine got a smaller plasma TV. When it got hooked up, it was all wrong. I came over a month later, and we were watching a DVD. It had the letterbox frame at the top and bottom, but it was still scaled all the way out to fill the screen. It drove me nuts watching the DVD. The next day, I went to the store, and bought all new cables and rewired their equipment.
They had attached the video by composite, which the TV seems to not have liked much. I switched it over to S-Video cables, and that corrected the problem. Yes, I'm fully aware that it isn't the correct solution, but it was the only other common connection between their equipment.
When I was done, the picture was sharper than a regular TV, and the aspect ratio was correct. It would fill the whole screen rather than letterboxing it It seems to have been an internal conversion in the TV.
I screwed up on my own equipment. The problem is that there isn't enough indication of misconfiguration, leaving me with the impression I was doing something that I wasn't.
I bought a Optoma DLP projector. Even projected on a white wall, it was a huge improvement over a 6 year old 32" CRT. I could set it to about 11' wide, 8' tall. It was really cool to watch, but we'd set it down to about 6' tall to view comfortably. I moved into a new house, where I didn't have a white wall large enough to project an image. I bought a decent widescreen pulldown screen from Fry's, which is 7' wide. We also upgraded from a regular DirecTiVo receiver to the HD DirecTiVo receiver. The HD receiver has an indicator on the front, which shows what mode is being sent out.
With the existing cabling, I could only show at 480i. Finally, I had an indicator to show what I was doing, on the HD DirecTiVo receiver. I researched a little, bought new cabling, and now it shows at 1080i. The DirecTiVo receiver had some documentation showing the capabilities of the various cabling, which was very helpful. I then had to figure out what conversions was necessary to make it work. For example, from the HD DirecTiVo, I use component color to the stereo receiver. The stereo receiver then outputs on component color, which I convert to DVI, and then to VGA. It's the only combination of adapters I could use that were available, and it took going to about 6 stores to accomplish.
On Thanksgiving, we saw the difference. I put on a football game in HD, and the same game from regular broadcast. I switched back and forth using the 'last' button, and it became clear what the difference in quality was. If I hadn't screwed around with it more, I would probably still be using an SVideo cable, and been very happy with the old resolution.
I have everything mated togeter very nicely now. The sound system is excellent, so in the darkened room you feel like you're in a movie theater, right down to the rumbling bass and crystal clear realistic audio.
I don't personally know anyone else who goes to the extent that I do, to make my TV a theater experience. Most people use the TV's internal speakers, or have a small theater stereo, but never put the speakers in close to the ideal positions. Generally, it's either impractical to set up your TV room correctly, or there's no urge to spend the money on it.
My three rear speakers are mounted on the ceiling, downtilted towards the listener in the prime location (center of the couch). Everything is measured out to a fraction of an inch and mounted in place. Even the projector is exactly centered on the screen, mounted on the ceiling, and I don't allow for even 1" variance. It took about a
It's too much information..
Kinda like a login page reporting a difference between "invalid password", and "invalid username". If you see invalid username, you know not to bother trying your full dictionary file plus mutations against it.
Admitting that a password is in use on the site tells everyone to go ahead and try that password on all the accounts. Many sites show lists of users, especially on stuff like message boards, so it would be easy to find the user once you knew a password belonged to someone.
You can't reverse a hash. That's the problem. The hash is like a fingerprint of the data, not an encrypted version of the data. You can compare hashes to see if they're from the same original data, but you can't take the hash and find the original data (recent Slashdot story aside).
So, if you want one of those whiz-bang features like password recovery, it has to be encrypted or encoded, not hashed.
hahaha.
I've been trying to figure out any famous people named "Maggie". I didn't even think of the Simpsons. Doh.
Can I assume you're users are not generally in America? Several American sports teams rank up high, but no soccer teams.